The Definitive Guide to Comedy
We already have one stand-up comedian in the semifinals of America’s Got Talent 2018. Can we make it two for two? Samuel J. Comroe performed on Tuesday night’s live show on NBC, and will find out his fate tonight. You can still place votes to tip the scales in his …
For Netflix’s next new talk show, they’re not messing around with weekly episode releases. No, no. For Norm Macdonald Has A Show, you’ll get all 10 at once. Macdonald and sidekick Adam Eget will welcome hourlong conversations with Drew Barrymore, David Spade, Judge Judy, David Letterman, Jane Fonda, Chevy Chase, M. …
Emmy Blotnick used all those hours watching comic book superhero movies figuring out how to make her boyfriend her ex-boyfriend. This might be the first TV credit to include the phrase “drowning in dick” AND a champagne toast from the host. Thanks, Conan O’Brien. And The Rock. Roll the clip!
MTV is still with the Video Music Awards in 2018, and they brought out Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish to open up the proceedings Monday night on live TV with dueling zingers, curse words and even a flubbed joke about who Tiff wants to smash. Oh, and Kev told Trump …
After 10 years, it’s time for Funny or Die to evolve. The website made some announcements today, and here is the official letter of such. In short, the site is migrating to a new platform, Chorus, built by VOX Media. Bigger news? NO MORE proprietary video platform. Instead, they’ll be …
Maeve Higgins was a bestselling memoirist and comedian in her native Ireland when, at the age of 31, she decided to move to America. So immigration isn’t just the subject of her hit podcast, Maeve In America: Immigration IRL, but also a first-hand experience. She co-hosts Neil deGrasse Tyson’s StarTalk …
Twitter, like other social media platforms, has a huge legitimacy problem. Nobody is minding the store, so to speak, to separate the lies from the truth, the facts from the fiction. How’s Twitter responding in August 2018? With a humorous TV ad campaign. Starring Greg Barris. The campaign is called …
Talk shows are going to have to try harder to break through the massive programming offerings of Netflix. Chelsea Handler couldn’t do it. And now the streaming giant has broken off both The Break with Michelle Wolf and The Joel McHale Show, both of which had just debuted earlier this …
Dusty Slay made such an impression with his debut as a New Face in Montreal last month that he’s already gotten an invite to perform on The Tonight Show. Here Slay jokes about negotiating with Goodwill, and how the wardrobe makes the man. He likes to wave a lot, too. …
Tonight, Hasan Minhaj makes his final appearance as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, filing his own take on Moviepass and subscription-based services. What’s next for Minhaj? Most immediately, a late-summer stand-up comedy tour. 8/18 – MORRISTOWN, NJ 7PM 9:30PM 8/19 – PITTSBURGH, PA GET TIX 8/24 – MIAMI, FL GET …
