The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Just For Laughs named Jo Koy the “Stand-Up Comedian of the Year” last summer thanks mainly to the ticket sales for his live touring. That included 11 sold-out dates in Honolulu. He returned to Hawaii to film his second Netflix special there, in the 8,800-capacity arena. Whereas most comedians stopped …
After a decade in character on YouTube, and a series on Netflix, what hasn’t Miranda Sings done? Perform as herself. Colleen Ballinger opens Miranda Sings… Your Welcome by reintroducing her natural self to the audience, before changing costumes onstage into Miranda and performing several songs from her YouTube channel. This …
Hulu has an unconventional documentary coming out in August about The Amazing Johnathan, but Steve Byrne beats it to the punch with a heartfelt look at the comedian and magician who has stayed alive despite telling fans and loved ones five years ago that he was about to die. Byrne’s …
Congrats to this year’s crop of comedians Variety will toast at Just For Laughs as its 10 Comics to Watch for 2019! They are, with descriptions provided by Variety: Fahim Anwar – Recently seen in the Comedy Central special “Goatface” with his comedy group of the same name, his special “Fahim …
The nation of Ghana has invited Conan O’Brien to come visit, and Team Coco is on the case! Conan announced last night that he’ll take off for Africa on Monday, with Veep‘s Sam Richardson, whose parents are from Ghana, coming along for the journey. It’ll all be filmed, of course, …
Matt Braunger’s wife zings him so bad, or so good, that he refers to her as Donna Rickles. Just imagine what she’ll say about him now that he’s fessed up to being bad at smoking weed. Roll the clip.
Dave Chappelle already is winning the Mark Twain Prize this year. Why not also make his Broadway debut? Chappelle will perform five nights this July at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on West 46th Street (capacity just over 1,500). He has previously sold out lengthier runs at the larger Radio City Music …
Three times, ventriloquists have won America’s Got Talent. Could Michael Paul be the fourth? It certainly helped that the Philly vent opened his act with a bit of a misdirect, telling the judges and audience he was actually an exotic bird trainer.
Kevin Schwartz, a 49-year-old agoraphobe, finally got out of his home in Madison, Wisc., when his therapist encouraged him to visit the comedy club a few blocks down the road. Now here Schwartz is telling one-liners on America’s Got Talent. What a country.
If at first you don’t succeed, Sethward failed failed again. This performance artist comedian flashed the audience last summer as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. This summer, America’s Got Talent let him back onstage. Not once, but twice. First, he tried performing as a giraffe. And later as a …
