The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Streaming site Topic announced today that Maria Bamford’s new talk show What’s Your Ailment?! will premiere on the service Dec. 26. In the series, Maria speaks candidly with performers about their struggles with mental health. This isn’t Bamford’s first hot Topic rodeo. Two years ago, she starred in Ave Maria Bamford, a 12-part …
Conan O’Brien graduated from Brookline High School in 1981. As a junior, the teenager who was not yet a beloved TV writer and late-night host apparently wasn’t feeling much love for the game. Until he got a hold of some E.B. White. White, a longtime contributor to The New Yorker …
The UK’s Garrett Millerick performed on Tuesday’s Conan, and filled us in on how he’s not looking to make friends at the gym. He’s not there for fun. It’s life or death. He also manages a crack that may or not involve Conan O’Brien. Sorry, Conan.
Speaking of Netflix and HBO Max duking it out for comedy rights in 2020, we also learned today that Netflix shelled out an eight-figure deal to Ali Wong to ensure she’ll release her next two stand-up specials on the original streaming giant. Wong broke out big by releasing her first …
My hunch is coming correct. HBO Max looks to take on Netflix for stand-up comedy supremacy in 2020, adding another four top comedians to its upcoming schedule. They are Tracy Morgan, John Early, Rose Matafeo and Ahir Shah. “We are incredibly proud to showcase this expansive range of comedic talent …
Abby McEnany stars as a fictionalized version of herself in the new Showtime series Work In Progress. On Showtime, Abby is a 45-year-old overweight queer dyke from Chicago who plans to commit suicide in 180 days if her life doesn’t get any better. Can she become a work in progress …
James Corden’s film career is getting in the way of his late-night TV hosting career. So CBS is getting a load of guest stars to sub for Corden and host The Late Late Show in his absence, starting next Monday (Dec. 9, 2019) through Dec. 18, 2019. Among the guest …
Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast! will start airing its newest episodes exclusively on SiriusXM a week before they hit your ears anywhere else. Gottfried’s got actress and director Marsha Mason talking with him and Frank Santopadre today. But future episodes will show up first on SiriusXM Comedy Greats Channel 94, starting tomorrow! …
Brian Regan performed on the Thanksgiving 2019 edition of The Tonight Show, and shared that he suffers from OCD. Although he wouldn’t dare use the word suffers. On the other hand, trying to self-diagnose whether you’re obsessive-compulsive is a peculiar form of suffering. Roll the clip! Fallon also invited Regan …
Chase Bernstein also has some opinions about weddings, but it’s more about etiquette for her, as she joked on a recent episode of A Little Late with Lilly Singh. Bernstein’s also got jokes about emoji etiquette, and retail life. Roll the clip.
