The Definitive Guide to Comedy
James Acaster is British, but you can live anywhere and appreciate the difference between people who say “he or she” and those who say “they,” as he joked Wednesday on The Late Late Show on James Corden. He also let us know that you’re not the first person to pose all clever …
My friend JC Coccoli is helping produce this year’s Pittsburgh Comedy Festival back in her Three Rivers hometown, and she wanted me to remind you comedy kids out there that you still have a week or so to submit your stand-up act, improv group or workshop! Submissions are open until …
Netflix has ordered up another round of half-hour stand-up comedy specials, this time with a twist. Instead of calling them The Standups, Netflix is calling these comedians The Degenerates. What does that mean, exactly? Here’s the official description: The country’s funniest, delinquent comedians are teaming up for this RAW and …
First, Dave Chappelle joined Chris Rock to help Rock launch his first stand-up tour in several years. Now Chappelle is doing the same for Jon Stewart. Chappelle and Stewart will share the stage for an exclusive, limited run of shows this June in Boston, Houston and El Paso. All tickets …
Who is Nell Scovell? She’s the creator of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, first staff writer hired for SPY magazine, second woman ever to write for The Simpsons, and one of only a handful of women to ever write for David Letterman. Scovell’s other TV credits include Murphy Brown, Coach and …
All of us have a mom, and if you’re lucky to still talk to yours this Mother’s Day, then Alyssa Limperis knows what she’ll tell you. Limperis, a sketch performer with Maude team The Gift at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City, and one of two head comedy …
Amy Schumer returned to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, but for her second time around, the stand-up comedian and actress is now a newlywed. The Trainwreck star, now promoting her new movie I Feel Pretty, joked about her husband’s “worthless” marriage proposal, no longer receiving “u up” texts, as …
By now, you’re well past used to seeing Saturday Night Live open cold at 11:30 p.m. Eastern with a political sketch lampooning Trump. Not this Saturday night. Instead, 10 cast members from SNL — Aidy Bryant, Kenan Thompson, Melissa Villaseñor, Mikey Day, Luke Null, Chris Redd, Kyle Mooney, Colin Jost, Beck …
Sadiki Fuller, a stand-up comedian from Houston who got his start in comedy in San Francisco, has died unexpectedly. He was found in his bed Saturday morning. Fuller started doing comedy in 1999. In his even younger days, Sadiki worked as a professional mascot for the Golden State Warriors. Off …
Memphis comedian and morning radio show host Spanky Brown has died, apparently from a heart attack. Born Byron Yeldell on March 13 (his Facebook bios alternately joke the year was 1908 or 1937), “Spanky” graduated high school in Memphis in 1980, and in his last two years, could be heard …
