The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Orlando Leyba was born in Puerto Rico but deported to the Dominican Republic with his mother when he was just a small child. Leyba and his mom eventually made it back to the United States, and he got his start in comedy in Miami. Through hard work and timing, he’s …
A year ago this week, Comedy Dynamics filmed six stand-up comedy specials back-to-back over consecutive nights at The Palace Theater in Los Angeles, all of them with the same opening and closing montages. They released them over a period of several months this year, available everywhere but Netflix. Among them: …
Kirk Fox only really looks like That Guy when he’s sporting his mustache. Fox had more of a five o’clock shadow going on when he filmed his Showtime special in Santa Barbara during, and he realized that “that guy” not only refers to memorable character actors in TV and movies, …
