The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I’ve long held a love/ambivalence about the comedian and actor Russell Brand. On the one hand, Brand holds a world of ideas within his head and a dazzling gift for sharing his ideas and prompting bigger conversations about life and love and everything else. On the other, Brand’s ego and …
Adam McKay won the Academy Award for best screenplay for his adaptation of The Big Short. His newest film at the end of 2018 is VICE, McKay’s darkly satiric yet mostly true retelling of the life and career of Dick Cheney. He has come a long way since his Second …
Joe Wong has performed on the Ed Sullivan stage before to perform on David Letterman’s Late Show, and returned this past week to tell Stephen Colbert’s audience a thing or two about China, immigration and walls. Roll the clip!
Pete Lee is racking up the visits to Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, with four performances in a year’s span. Lee thinks being called “extra” is a good thing, even though he only grew up to be half a man, and had to come out straight to his parents. Roll the …
Katherine Ryan is Canadian, so of course she knows how great Celine Dion is, and in this performance on Wednesday’s Late Late Show with James Corden, she explains what Dion does right, what Melania Trump did wrong, and how British television offers a brutally naked alternative to dating. Roll the …
Carol Burnett has won lifetime achievement awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the Peabody Awards, the Mark Twain Prize, Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Now she’ll get her own award in her own name from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Golden Globes will launch The …
Sarah Cooper could have enjoyed a lucrative career in tech, only she didn’t enjoy Google as much as she did making jokes about it. She began performing stand-up in 2010, and in 2013, saw a blog post she wrote about how to look smart in meetings go viral and land …
Emma Willmann returned to The Late Show for her second performance, and had to explain to her father that she’s “the man one” in her lesbian relationships. Do you need explaining? Let Willmann explain. Roll the clip!
Nimesh Patel has written for Saturday Night Live and performed on Late Night with Seth Meyers, but his most newsworthy gig happened just last weekend by becoming a hell gig. “On Nov. 30, I performed stand-up as part of an annual event put on by the Asian-American Alliance at Columbia, …
Joe Machi will not try to convince you that he is who he is. Nor will Machi apologize for his ways. Roll the clip!
