The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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.
Marlon may not be the first to notice that President Trump treats the White House like a reality TV competition, or even that “Donald Trump is the Flavor Flav of white people.” He probably does win a “too soon” award, however, for his impression of Wendy Williams fainting, though, now that …
Need your Buddy Cole fix? Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall is reviving his lounge lizard character and taking his one-man show on the road for a spring tour of America. Après Le Déluge: The Buddy Cole Monologues, an evening of humorous tales told since KITH went off the air …
If you’re not yet excited about this year’s SXSW, which starts in just over a week from now in Austin, then get a load of these comedy offerings happening between March 9-18, 2018. 2018 SXSW Comedy Festival Participants Adam Lustick • Adam Pally • Aparna Nancherla • Baron Vaughn • …
