The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Production began over the weekend in Portland, Ore., for Shrill, a six-episode limited series on Hulu starring Saturday Night Live‘s Aidy Bryant based on journalist Lindy West’s 2016 memoir. The shooting schedule, much like Portlandia before it, will not prevent Bryant from starring in SNL this fall. Particularly since Lorne …
Wil Sylvince’s passion project outside of stand-up comedy has been almost a decade in the making. Sylvince first showed me a short spec video back in 2010 of him as a boxer. Seven years later, his boxing film, I Am Maurice, has successfully raised more than $104,000 via Kickstarter from 641 …
Mexican comedy star Eugenio Derbez will host a new Amazon Prime Video competition in which 10 Mexican comedians match wits and witty lines in pursuit of one million Mexican pesos. LOL: Last One Laughing will premiere later this year. It’s adapted from a Japanese TV series, Hitoshi Matsumoto Presents Documental, in which …
Bo Burnham grew up in front of the world, thanks to YouTube. Burnham now has translated that experience to 2018 and to everyone else, with his wonderful new movie, Eighth Grade. It premiered at Sundance in January, and goes nationwide this weekend. I enjoyed the opportunity to sit down with …
Katie Hannigan performed as a New Face last month at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival, and last night, introduced her face to many millions more with her network TV debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She’s got the look, she’s got the voice, and she’s got the jokes. …
Oliver Graves is still goth, but doesn’t want to keep working retail jobs, so he hopes his look and his jokes are enough for this 2018 season of America’s Got Talent. But is it enough? Apparently not. He didn’t get chosen for the live shows this summer. Now you be …
The long-awaited National Comedy Center opens its doors this week in Jamestown, NY, the birthplace of comedy legend Lucille Ball. Grand Opening festivities boast appearances and performances by Lily Tomlin, Dan Aykroyd, Amy Schumer, Lewis Black, Fran Drescher, Hari Kondabolu, W. Kamau Bell, Tom Cotter, Judy Gold and more! Tickets: …
Lisa Best practiced kissing with her stuffed animals, but hasn’t everyone? Best also once got heckled by a child during a show, in the daylight. But hasn’t everyone? No? Let Best explain best in her performance from Monday’s Late Late Show with James Corden. Roll the clip.
In 2011, Rafinha Bastos was named the most influential person on Twitter. Not then-President Barack Obama. Not the Pope. Brazilian comedian and TV personality Rafinha Bastos. Bastos has upward of 12 million Twitter followers now. He sat down with me during Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival to talk about how …
Dom Irrera went off-script, Dennis Rodman bombed, Ed Norton surprised everyone and no one by focusing his roast on himself, and Demi Moore threatened to steal the show by showing up as a surprise at the Roast of Bruce Willis. Did you miss anything else from last night’s roast on …
