The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Bob Newhart won the Grammy for Album of the Year in 1961 for his stand-up comedy, which featured Newhart’s hilarious one-sided phone conversations. Now, 57 years later, Newhart has a new audio series of conversations, this time with his famous funny friends. HI BOB! has launched exclusively on Audible at Audible.com/HiBob. Listeners …
D’oh. Now we know why The Problem With Apu continues to be problematic, despite Hank Azaria acknowledging that the voice he has used on The Simpsons for an Indian immigrant running the Springfield convenience store might not be as funny in 2018 as it was in 1988. The Simpsons defended …
We saw four new Sacha Baron Cohen characters in his latest satirical stunt, Who Is America?, which debuted this past Sunday on Showtime. But a fifth character didn’t go over so well, as Baron Cohen found out last year and we only discovered this week, thanks to a California gun …
With all of the new Netflix comedy specials the streaming giant has acquired and broadcast over the past couple of years, it’s not surprising that they’d eventually figure out it’s also the one format that adapts easiest to audio. So today, Netflix announced its first audio venture, an all-comedy channel …
Nimesh Patel is killing the game in comedy, and in Google. But to hear him tell it on Tuesday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, he’s still getting served by his mom. Roll the clip!
Carmen Lynch thought she was going to appear on last week’s audition episode of America’s Got Talent, but AGT decided to save her debut for the “Judges Cut” rounds instead. And so we saw Lynch spotlighted with a set-up from guest judge Ken Jeong talking about quitting his day job …
Part of Conan O’Brien’s restructured deal with TBS included a more involved commitment to stand-up comedy, and Team Coco is doing it to it this week at Comic-Con San Diego with the launch of TEAMCOCOHOUSE. Say what? A few blocks from the convention center, TEAMCOCOHOUSE will showcase a daily lineup of comics …
Mark Normand made a great point on Monday’s Tonight Show: Why do airlines ask us to pick our seats, without letting us pick our seatmates? Would you want to sit next to Normand, though? He describes himself as a serial killer without the ambition. He certainly has ambition to write …
That Earthquake you heard today on the radio was all comedy. Comedian Nathaniel “Earthquake” Stroman launched a new daily talk show today on SiriusXM’s Kevin Hart channel, aka Laugh Out Loud Radio. If you missed it today, you can catch Earthquake weekdays from 4 to 6 p.m. Eastern, 1 to …
When Sacha Baron Cohen first burst onto the scene with Ali G, Borat and Bruno on British television in 2000 (and then HBO in 2003), you have to remember what America was then. No social media. No hyper-awareness. When he filmed Borat, he could still fool most of the people …
