The Definitive Guide to Comedy
And now there are six. When Netflix announced it would tape six half-hour stand-up specials in June in Las Vegas called The Degenerates, they’d only listed five names. Now Brad Williams has joined the lineup, which previously included Big Jay Oakerson, Liza Treyger, Christina P, Yamaneika Saunders and Joey “Coco” …
Most of the official videos from this week’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee have been scrubbed from the TBS talker’s official YouTube page. There is still this promo tease. Roll it! Bee devoted part of her segment on ICE forcefully separating thousands of children from their parents at the U.S. …
What to make of Roseanne Barr? Yet another hot take? No. Her personal and professional lives, to both the most casual observers and the most ardent fans, have ridden the metaphorical rollercoaster for more than three decades now. And it’s all been well documented. From her initial breakthrough as a …
Mary Gallagher is an actress as well as a comedian, and if you believe what she said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, a mother of two. If you count her 42-year-old husband as her baby boy. Gallagher also joked about how her improv training makes it more difficult …
The 2018 season of America’s Got Talent kicked off tonight, and Oceanside comedian Vicki Barbolak enjoyed her first moment in the spotlight with this winning audition, in which she charmed the judges and audience with a bit about conjugal visits at prison, the problems with finding a proper bra in …
Sadly, I couldn’t make it out to Los Angeles this Mother’s Day for the all-star comedy tribute to The Comedy Store’s Mitzi Shore, who passed away in April after a long illness. Thankfully, though, her son, comedian Pauly Shore, has shared this video he put together for her memorial. I …
Joshua Jean-Baptiste and Edson Jean met as students at New World School of the Arts in Miami, where both learned how to become multi-hyphenates in this new world of show business, as actors, playwrights and filmmakers. Jean’s college thesis, the short film The Adventures of Edson Jean, was licensed by HBO, …
Ahmed Bharoocha’s father is Muslim, his mother is Catholic, and Ahmed? Well, as he joked on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, his view of religion is much better described with this bit about walking on a tightrope in the fog. He also has an idea for conducting background checks …
Cory Kahaney joked on Conan how she makes her second marriage work better than her first, how her relationship with her therapist is somehow longer than both, and having kids 20 years apart. Roll the clip!
Going back to the motherland to attend the royal wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle must’ve made James Corden homesick. Corden announced today that The Late Late Show will broadcast special episodes from London’s historic Central Hall Westminster from Monday June 18 through Thursday June 21, with special guests …
