The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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!
I don’t pretend to know what’s in Kevin Hart’s heart or going through his head. The comedy star just threw a “Cowboys and Indians” party for his one-year-old’s birthday (not that his new toddler had any say in the matter). He said he wasn’t going to apologize for his old …
Congrats to all the hard-working scribes out there getting the most out of their WGA memberships! Here are the comedy-related nominees this year. 2019 Writers Guild Awards Nominees COMEDY SERIES Atlanta, Written by Ibra Ake, Donald Glover, Stephen Glover, Taofik Kolade, Jamal Olori, Stefani Robinson, Paul Simms; FX Networks Barry, Written …
Three former Grammy-winning comedians are vying for another Grammy Award for the Best Comedy Album of 2018. Best Comedy Album: “Annihilation” — Patton Oswalt “Equanimity & The Bird Revelation” — Dave Chappelle “Noble Ape” — Jim Gaffigan “Standup For Drummers” — Fred Armisen “Tamborine” — Chris Rock Chappelle won last …
