The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Andy Woodhull is a stepfather to two teenage daughters, and as he explained in this performance on Wednesday’s Late Late Show with James Corden, he could only dream of achieving the laziness these two girls are living. Roll the clip!
Mitzi Shore, the legendary owner of The Comedy Store who took over the comedy club when she divorced Sammy Shore in 1974, mother of Pauly Shore and three other children, a lightning rod for the comedy strike of 1979, godmother to so many other comedians in the 1970s through the …
Years in the making, the National Comedy Center will celebrate its grand opening this August in Jamestown, New York — just time for the annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, which will include appearances and performances by Lily Tomlin, Amy Schumer, and Dan Aykroyd with other original members of Saturday Night …
It has been a couple of years since the most recent Comedy Central Roast (Rob Lowe, 2016, in case you had forgotten). Well, time’s up. Um, maybe not those words. But there will be a new Comedy Central Roast this summer, and the Roastee will be Bruce Willis. It’ll tape …
Nick Griffin jokes that eating ice cream, or a can of soup, at night as an adult says a lot more about you than it would if you were a kid. So does knowing how much you have in your bank account. Come to think of it, those things might …
Charles John Thomas “Chuck” McCann delighted children for decades, first on local New York City television, then nationally, and finally in animation. McCann died on April 8 from congenital heart failure at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 83. Born Sept. 2, 1934, in Brooklyn, McCann made his name on …
On Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons, the writers had little Lisa give advice to her mom about something or other, using it instead as an opportunity to defend themselves against charges of racism for having a white actor voice an Indian character with a heavily stereotyped accent. “It’s hard …
In the movie Most Likely To Murder, Adam Pally (Happy Endings, The Mindy Project) wants everyone in his hometown on Long Island to believe he’s still the king of his high school, now making it big in Las Vegas when in reality, he’s still stuck working as a bathroom attendant. …
Jimmy Fallon’s favorite stand-up comedian, Nate Bargatze, returned to The Tonight Show on Thursday night, this time recounting an adventure he took with a friend attempting to climb Mount Rainier in Washington state, and seeing a dead horse along the way. What would you do? Roll the clip!
The Netflix catalog of original programming keeps growing and growing, as the streaming giant has announced two more new comedy series in just the past two days. The first project, Paradise P.D., is an animated look at a poorly-run small-town police department, from the creators of Brickleberry, Waco O’Guin and …
