The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Brendan Schaub, a former UFC fighter who has turned to podcasting and now stand-up comedy, released his first comedy special over the weekend on Showtime. All of this talking has presumably softened the rough edges of this heavyweight fighter. Although You’d Be Surprised aims to let audiences know he’s always been a …
Sammy Shore, the stand-up comedian who founded The Comedy Store in West Hollywood with his wife Mitzi in 1972 before giving her complete ownership in their divorce two years later, has died. Shore was 92. He was surrounded by his current wife and family in his home in Las Vegas …
The marketplace always has left room for junk art. Whether it’s the B movie, pulp fiction or velvet Elvis paintings, we’ve maintained a soft spot for kitsch culture, for works that speak to us on a visceral level, no matter their quality. The Internet and social media has upped the …
The broadcast networks have unveiled their new primetime schedules for fall 2019. Here are trailers for the new new sitcoms premiering this fall, in order of time slot Sunday-Saturday. FOX Sundays at 8:30 ET/PT: Bless the Harts CBS Mondays at 8:30 ET/PT: Bob <3 Abishola ABC Tuesdays at 9:30 ET/PT: …
Jimmy Kimmel, 51, had to wonder in his early tenure hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live whether ABC might replace him with Nightline, Conan O’Brien, or anything else. Kimmel need worry no more. ABC announced a three-year contract extension with him, keeping JKL on the air through its 20th season. Kimmel has …
There’s no escaping South Park. Or is there? The Comedy Central animated fixture, closing in on 22 years on the air, opens its first-ever escape room today in Chicago. Actually Oakbrook. South Park‘s South Park: Cartman’s Escape Room will also pop up in New York, Denver, Los Angeles and other …
Tim Conway, simply one of the funniest individuals to perform on television, has died after a long illness. Conway was 85. Born in 1933 outside of Cleveland, Thomas Daniel “Tim” Conway began his career as a radio disc jockey at Bowling Green University, where he studied in the 1950s before …
Sarah Tollemache is married (to comedian Joe List, even), and though they don’t have children or pets yet, Tollemache jokes that having avocados at home does provide a similar experience to parenting. In this performance on The Late Late Show, Tollemache also joked about living in cramped quarters, and bringing …
Rich Vos might not have expected to make it to 60 the way he was living his 20s, addicted to alcohol and crack cocaine. But Vos made it out, and celebrated 33 years clean and sober in 2019. Along the way, he became the first white comic to perform on …
Today is the final deadline to submit your short-form and long-form series ideas to Just For Laughs for festival’s annual “Stand Up & Pitch” contests in Montreal. So let’s take a look at one of last year’s winners: Myrtle & Willoughby. Brittany Tomkin and Jorja Hudson’s comedy mini-series about two, young female …
