The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Liza Treyger is a New York based stand-up comic by way of Chicago, who grew up in nearby Skokie after immigrating from Russia when she was 3. Treyger has her own Comedy Central half-hour special and album, GLITTERCHEESE, and a more recent half-hour special on Netflix as part of The …
James Veitch loves replying to emails that were not meant for him in the first place. In this example he shared on The Tonight Show, Veitch wonders about a proposed swimming pool for a different Veitch couple in Florida, and has taken some issues with it. Roll the clip.
As part of Conan O’Brien’s 25th anniversary hosting late-night television, his Team Coco previously announced it had secured the comprehensive archives to O’Brien’s past work on NBC and saved it for our future digital viewing. Of course, one of the quirks/downsides of the digital age has seen TV networks wipe …
Carl Reiner turned 97 yesterday. To celebrate, the living comedy legend announced plans to digitally preserve his personal collection of scripts from The Dick Van Dyke Show. Reiner created, wrote and co-starred on the classic sitcom, which aired on CBS from 1961-1966. His personal scripts include lots of hand-written annotations, …
Aparna Nancherla shared her revelatory moment with social media in her stand-up set Wednesday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Nancherla also joked about trying to find therapy on her phone, and in real life. It’s not easy. Roll the clip!
The first Minneapolis Comedy Festival will kick off during the final week of June with a lineup that includes Bob Newhart, Seth Meyers, George Lopez, D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and YouTubers Rhett and Link. Here are the shows already on sale. Not yet on sale: The June 28 performances …
Here’s a not-so-throwback Thursday for you, from earlier this week, when Andrew “Dice” Clay invited Roseanne Barr onstage with him at The Laugh Factory in Las Vegas. Roseanne tossed some jabs at ABC for killing her off from her own reboot of Roseanne this past year. Click here for the …
Mark Normand returned to Conan on Tuesday night, this time talking about how the “orgasm gap” is even worse than the wage gap, and how brave he is as a white guy to joke about race and sex in the first place. Roll the clip!
From the time since Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer debuted in 2013 to her star turn two years later in the film she also wrote, Trainwreck, Schumer’s early 30s saw her rise to become not only the one of the top stand-ups in America, but also a leading advocate for women, as well …
When I started focusing full-time on comedy, I could count the number of full-time comedy photographers on one hand. Mindy Tucker was there with me from the beginning. Seth Olenick set up interesting shots in New York City, while Robyn Von Swank did the same out in Los Angeles. The …
