The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Former Last Comic Standing winner Josh Blue performed on Friday’s Tonight Show, and explained how living with cerebral palsy sometimes means homeless guys on the street want to help him out. Roll the clip!
Robby Slowik is glad he gets to perform stand-up comedy for a living, but as he joked on Thursday’s Conan, some other occupations have their perks, too. But when it comes to debating whether to kneel or bow to the national anthem, Slowik has a better question: Why do countries …
For his son’s 15th birthday, comedian Jo Koy made fun of him on national television, describing on The Late Late Show with James Corden how creepy he is as a “roommate” at this age. And messy. If only the flossing (or lack thereof) was the worst of it. Roll the …
Harrison Greenbaum started out as a magician, but as he told us on Tuesday’s Conan, it takes more than magic to survive seven lightning strikes over one man’s lifetime. What are the odds? About the same as winning a game of Tetris. Or taking a one-way trip to Mars. Roll …
After 25 years hosting an hourly late-night talk show, Conan O’Brien will begin his 26th year by transitioning to host of a newly-formatted nightly half-hour program, plus the added task of hosting national stand-up comedy tours with Team Coco approved comedians. “Since I inherited my Late Night show in 1993, TV has …
Get ready for a lot more Ramy in your life. Hulu announced at its annual upfronts presentation today that it’s ordering Ramy, a sitcom based on the real life of stand-up comedian Ramy Youssef. The series takes viewers into the world of Ramy, a first generation American Muslim who is …
Congrats to Justine Marino and Heidi Heaslet! After more than a year of live monthly shows in The Comedy Store’s Belly Room, Marino and Heaslet have sold their “Stand Up 2 the Streets” comedy dance competition as a TV series to E! The network announced it’ll adapt the live show …
Mean Girls, Amy Schumer and John Leguizamo are among the comedic stars getting feted this year by the Tony Awards for their work on Broadway. Mean Girls, the musical adaptation of Tina Fey’s 2004 movie, is up for 12 Tonys, including Best Musical. Fey (who wrote the book) and her …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Some parts of the Happy Ending gang are finding a new beginning in 2019 with a YouTube Red series that’ll star Adam Pally alongside Sam Richardson and Jay Pharoah. To wit: The creator of Happy Endings, David Caspe, that show’s writers Daniel Libman and Matthew Libman, executive producer Jamie Tarses, studio …
