The Definitive Guide to Comedy
After touring in 2019, Chelsea Handler has plotted her next comedy move out of quarantine, and it’s not for Netflix. HBO Max is getting Handler’s next stand-up comedy special, the new streaming giant announced today. “No one makes me laugh like Chelsea and we are thrilled to partner with her …
Sam Morril and Mark Normand both had hourlong stand-up specials on Comedy Central. For their follow-ups in 2020, though, neither could convince Comedy Central, or anyone else, to broadcast them on regular, cable or streaming TV. So they each went to YouTube — after self-producing their tapings. They connected over …
A new Discovery channel special, Small Town Throwdown, premieres tonight, sending stand-up comedian Mo Mandel to Appleton, Wisc., and Lubbock, Texas, to see if they really live up to their self-described titles. Is Coalinga, Calif., the smelliest town in America? Is Lubbock the “Most Boring” American town? Appleton the drunkest? …
The biggest comedian in podcasting is moving his show to Spotify. Joe Rogan just announced the news. On Instagram, he wrote: “Starting on September 1 the podcast will be available on Spotify as well as all platforms, and then at the end of the year it will move exclusively to …
Jeff Dye and Brad Williams sat down with Theo Von for Von’s podcast, “This Past Weekend,” to recount their past weekends back on the road as some of the first comedians to perform in live comedy clubs during the coronavirus pandemic. Dye headlined Wiseguys in Salt Lake City, while Williams …
Jimmy Kimmel devoted his Monday night episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live to the late great Fred Willard. Willard had appeared as a regular guest performer on JKL in post-monologue sketches since 2004, even more so in the past couple of years after Willard’s wife died. (Willard talked to me about …
When I sat down with Fred Willard in February 2020 inside his home in Southern California, he was noticeably weak — I held his microphone for him throughout our conversation — but his mind and his sense of humor was quite intact, and he was still working. In fact, Fred …
Time for a quick game of Would You Rather… Would You Rather…tell jokes from the relative safety and comfort of your living room on Zoom to an unknown number of pages of 25 boxes containing faces you may or may not know are laughing with you, and feel like you’re …
Josh Thomas is an Australian comedian, actor and writer who broke out on the scene as a teenager, winning best newcomer at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2007 for his first solo show, “Please Like Me.” Thomas went on to stage his stand-up at the Edinburgh Fringe and Montreal’s …
Lilly Singh filmed her entire first season of her late-late-night talker for NBC in the last few months of 2019, which meant viewers kept seeing regular new episodes of A Little Late with Lilly Singh with studio audiences into May 2020! Now that that’s a wrap, NBC has announced a …
