The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Take off, Jackhole. While Jimmy Kimmel will remain a partner in the studio he co-founded with Adam Carolla and Daniel Kellison before launching The Man Show way back in the day, the ABC late-night TV host has just started a new media company for all of his future ventures. It’s …
David “Deacon” Gray, the stand-up comedian who also nurtured a generation of Denver-area comedians as the new talent coordinator at Comedy Works since 2004, died over the weekend. He had cancer. Gray grew up in Oklahoma City, graduated high school in 1983 and started comedy on March 5, 1986, according to his …
All biopics start from a grain of truth, the essential building blocks of the subject, and then weave an imaginative backstory complete with a heartwarming or inspirational narrative arc. A Futile and Stupid Gesture is not that kind of biopic. Certainly, the period piece directed by David Wain does cover …
Erik Griffin played a Vietnam vet in Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, but his 2018 stand-up comedy special portrays him as a different kind of AmERIKan Warrior. “There’s a war on comedy and free speech, and I’m a soldier on the front lines,” Griffin tells the audience. Only he’s not …
Cameron Esposito’s 2018 stand-up special, Rape Jokes, raised $20,000 in donations for RAINN in the first two days she featured it on her website this summer. But don’t think or fear that you’re in for an hour of jokes about rape. That’s simply not the case. Esposito has delivered a …
Graham Kay is a Canadian comedian who made his U.S. network TV debut on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Kay already has the hang of living in New York City, as evidenced by his AirBnb tips, but not the hang of some other things. So to …
Ian Karmel doesn’t look like the guy he really is. Which is a good thing! Karmel explained in this performance on Wednesday’s Late Late Show with James Corden. Roll the clip!
Twitter used to be great, but now is so much greater. — Said no one ever. Ouch. Bad joke. But is it the Worst Twitter Joke Format? You can help decide in this bracket-style competition election, created by Michelle Spies, a Chicago-based contributor to @TheOnion & @Clickhole who also writes for @botnikstudios and @mcsweeneys. Spoiler alert: …
No charts and graphs or drawings from Demetri Martin for his performance on Tuesday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Just a guitar to provide some background music for jokes. Roll it!
There’s a fun new oral history piece out from ESPN The Magazine today about the late great Garry Shandling and his longtime Sunday basketball games that brought together so many funny people to his home over a couple of decades. “It was ‘Fight Club’ with better jokes,” said Shandling’s writing …
