The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
The National Comedy Center has assembled an all-star crew of comedians to pay tribute to the late great George Carlin tonight for his birthday. Carlin, born May 12, 1937, died in 2008. Coming together for a livestream of “Laughing Matters: Carlin’s Legacy,” count on Tim Allen, Judd Apatow, Lewis Black, …
Over the past 25 years, Judy Gold has starred in her own half-hour stand-up specials for HBO, Comedy Central and LOGO, has won two Emmy Awards for writing for The Rosie O’Donnell Show, and appeared on numerous daytime and late-night talk shows. Gold has written and starred in two Off-Broadway solo shows: The …
Dan Whitney had a pretty good comedy career, including a TV appearance on A&E’s An Evening At The Improv. But Whitney’s career as Larry the Cable Guy has been far more lucrative and longer-lasting, going on some three decades since he first started calling into radio stations as the character who …
