The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Fooling media outlets into thinking she created the Netflix series “Emily in Paris” may have won the comedian and Fordham grad Abby Govindan plenty of new followers on Twitter in 2021, but it didn’t go a long way in making her the pride of her Indian American family back home in Houston. It’s just …
Brad Alexander composes music for television and musical theater, whose notable works include the music for See Rock City & Other Destinations, which won the 2011 Drama Desk Award, Richard Rodgers Award and BMI Foundation’s Jerry Bock Award, and more recently served as lead composer for the PBS/Amazon animated series, …
What’s in a name? Since its launch in 2016 by comedy managers Ryan Bitzer and Damion Greiman, along with founding members Ian Adkins and Anthony Leo, 800 Pound Gorilla Media has grown from a small record label into a king kong of comedy distribution, working with everyone from Kevin Hart’s …
We did it, comedy fans. We withstood another year of craziness, hundreds upon hundreds of comedy specials, and have gotten my friend and colleague in comedy criticism, Jason Zinoman from The New York Times, to join me for another December to Remember and try to make sense of it all. …
Kelly McCaughan is an actor, writer, comedian and clown whose show, Catholic Guilt, was nominated for Best Newcomer by the 2023 ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and then brought back the following Fringe, where her show received a Best Show nomination from the 2024 ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Originally from outside …
Chad Daniels is a Minnesota stand-up comedian with more than a billion streams to his credit, and in July 2024 released his 10th comedy special and first for Netflix, Empty Nester, marking his freedom from raising two kids as a single dad in small-town Minnesota. Daniels sat down with me over Zoom …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lara Ricote, the 2022 Best Newcomer, has returned to the Fringe with a new hour exploring her relationship issues, whether it’s the unique one she fosters with each audience, or the uniquely weird one she has with her Argentinian boyfriend, who moved to the Netherlands to be with Ricote, …
⭐⭐⭐½ Lee’s debut solo hour packs an emotional punch, reframing their journey as a first-gen identical twin of Taiwanese parents through song-and-dance numbers, an onstage costume change revealing their pandemic boobs, and a closing drag number paying homage to their late brother. It’s a lot to take in. But TIti …
⭐⭐½ This is the opening of his official show description for the 2024 Fringe: “For years, Reginald D Hunter has been misinterpreted as a controversial comedian because of his show titles despite his repeated objections that he is not a controversial comedian.” Ahem. Oops. For the record, I saw Hunter’s …
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Emma Holland grew up in Indonesia from ages 6-16, and she’d maybe rather have that be what sets her apart from other Australian comedians than her love of collages. Because who wants to be known as a collage comedian? And yet, There Will Be Collage. There also will be …
