The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
To most Americans, Poppi Kramer was the first person to win big by losing weight big-time on NBC’s The Biggest Loser. To New York City comedians, Kramer was a godsend. Particularly for everyone from open mic’ers to the LGBTQ community, and everyone in between. Kramer died Friday. She was 46. …
Andy Kindler delivered his most sincere and focused State of the Industry Address in years at Just For Laughs in Montreal. Which, of course, is extra funny since the actual industry hasn’t felt sincere in a long time, could definitely use some focus, and Kindler joked that JFL might be …
Howie Mandel recently opened a comedy club bearing his name in Atlantic City, and he’s long been a mainstay judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. But Mandel’s heart has remained in his native Canada, so when Just For Laughs suddenly became a real-life Deal or No Deal for him, the …
Can a white Tyler Perry make it in show business without the wigs, makeup or disguise? That’s not a rhetorical question in comedy, circa 2018. Three years ago, Darren Knight was broke in the sticks of Munford, Ala., not far from Talladega Speedway but far far away from show business. …
Sasheer Zamata is used to white people mispronouncing my name, so she was happy that Stephen Colbert introduced her correctly for her performance on Friday’s episode of The Late Show on CBS. The truth is farther out there, boldly going where no name has gone before. Sasheer also joked about …
Elon Gold let the audience know he knows what they think about Jews, in this stand-up performance from Thursday’s The Late Late Show with James Corden. And you’re only slightly wrong. Where my briskets at? “They’re coming over. Hide the salami!” Roll it.
New Faces is decidedly different this year in Montreal. Perhaps it’s due to the Amazon Prime Video camera crews following the aspiring stand-up comedians around Just For Laughs. Yep. Mais bien sur. C’est vrai. C’est très certainement! Pardon my French. In recent years, I’ve gone out of my way to …
