The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you thought the Academy Awards telecast already was too long and overbudget, just imagine if the 90th annual Oscars had followed through with this music video pitch from The Lonely Island. The song they wrote, “Why Not Me?”, would have included several stars from 2017’s box-office smashes. But, as …
The difference between independent and mainstream can sometimes be easy to see, as this weekend proved once again, with Saturday afternoon’s Independent Spirit Awards on IFC followed by Sunday evening’s Academy Awards on ABC. At the indie awards, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney returned to host for a second consecutive …
Brian Volk-Weiss is the founding president of Comedy Dynamics, which grew out of New Wave Entertainment to become the largest independent stand-up comedy production and distribution company. You see the Comedy Dynamics logo on almost every new stand-up special you see these days, no matter where you see it. Since …
Michelle Collins, comedian, talk show host and former co-host of The View, will host an uncensored daily show exclusively on SiriusXM’s Stars channel, starting this coming Monday morning, March 5, 2018. The Michelle Collins Show will feature Collins’ interviews with celebrity guests, newsmakers, experts and reality TV stars. She’ll also take calls …
Adam Sandler’s Netflix special is going to be a doozy! He has been filming himself performing on stages from Los Angeles to New York City — last night, back at Comic Strip Live in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. But he also took his accompanist and went in partial …
The Daily Show second-generation poaching is in full effect now, as Netflix has just announced its second new weekly talk-show from a correspondent who up until now was currently sidekicking it for Trevor Noah on Comedy Central. Netflix has ordered 32 weekly episodes of a Hasan Minhaj talk show. It’ll …
Pre-enrollment starts today for the $90 online course in making comedy, as taught by Judd Apatow. Apatow is the latest expert to sign up with MasterClass. “I have been mentored by many great comedians in my life. If someone out there watches this class and it’s helpful in their development …
He wasn’t from Boston, but Barry Crimmins accomplished more in the 1970s and 1980s to make the metropolitan area an artistically and financially profitable hub for comedy than any comedian, booker or club owner. He wasn’t Nicaraugan, but Crimmins traveled there to perform for the Sandinastas and rail against then-President …
Alex Edelman is enough of an Orthodox Jew that he’s never tried bacon. But as he joked on Tuesday’s Conan, he has tried cocaine. If you think that’s something, just wait until you hear him describe his twin brother. Yes, his twin brother. He’s also worked at a KFC. Not …
Nate Fernald is not much of a motorcycle guy. Probably for the best, then, that he’s a writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden, where he learned Tuesday night that funny T-shirts translate to wide audiences and that impressions need a proper set-up to land. Roll the clip.
