The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Emmy Blotnick discovered a name for her lifestyle thanks to a wrong answer on Wheel of Fortune, and may be the next new member of Fifth Harmony. Learn all this and more from Blotnick’s performance Monday night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Roll the clip!
Amberia Allen is a professor at UCLA who made her TV debut as a stand-up comedian on Friday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. So Allen knows her words enough to correct people, or to co-opt contradictory white girl statements. But is she wifey material? Roll the clip.
Sharon Houston punked Magic Johnson, Too Short, and 18 other celebrities on Punk’d, fooled Kim Kardashian’s fans on Celebrities Undercover, and has filmed hidden-camera pilots for VH1, E!, Disney Channel, Style Network and Dick Clark Productions. Sharon has been a fixture in clubs and cabarets since the 1990s, first in …
Kathy Griffin is ready to face the limelight again. On Friday’s Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, Griffin announced that she has booked several theater dates across America for her “Laugh Your Head Off” tour. For the past year, she had complained that the industry had blacklisted her for …
Kelsey Cook owes her life to foosball, and she explained why in her stand-up comedy performance Friday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Cook also joked about the joys of being allergic to both peanuts and latex, so roll that clip.
So many of the apologies this past year from men who abused women and minors in show business have been lacking. Thank goodness for Lauren Maul. Maul, a NYC-based comedian, has released a new album, “Apologies from Men.” She will donate 100 percent of the sales revenue from the album …
Norm Macdonald has a show on Netflix. That’s the title, too!? After hinting that such a deal was in the works, Macdonald and the streaming giant confirmed the news today, that the comedian and former SNL Weekend Update anchor would get 10 episodes of his newest talk show on Netflix …
Some people quit stand-up comedy. Some people don’t quit until they die. And others just fade away, for a variety of reasons. What was Lou DiMaggio’s excuse? That’s one of the questions answered in Where Have You Gone Lou DiMaggio?, a documentary film by Brad Kulhman which opens today in Los Angeles …
Real Time meets real talk next month, as HBO has announced a Friday the 13th premiere for Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas. Airing at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Friday nights on HBO, Cenac will star in 10 weekly episodes taking him all across America to examine the real problems facing us socially, …
Canadians now have another streaming platform of their own to pitch their stand-up comedy specials. CraveTV‘s first original comedy special, Darcy Michael Goes To Church, premieres Friday. It’s the first of three stand-up projects coming to CraveTV in partnership with Just For Laughs, filmed last September during the JFL42 festival …
