The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ali Siddiq spent six years in prison, serving time in various jails and penitentiaries after an arrest at 19 for drug possession. Twenty years later, Siddiq went back. It’s Bigger Than These Bars, premiering Friday night on Comedy Central, finds Siddiq performing for and talking to inmates at Bell County …
Everyone Poops is a very popular children’s book. And yet. Everyone poops, and nobody wants to talk about it. Despite the long history of fart jokes, we don’t generally discuss our excretory habits, or usually even acknowledge them. A brisk, bright 68-minute documentary fronted by the Sklar Brothers gets comedians and …
Showtime announced today that Brendan Schuab will host a sports and pop culture talk show, Below The Belt, which will present 30-minute episodes twice a month, starting Feb. 28, 2018, on YouTube and Facebook. The launch is timed to preview and promote Showtime Boxing’s next main event, a WBC heavyweight title …
Many people thought, or at least hoped that Tiffany Haddish would receive an Oscar nomination for her breakout performance in last year’s movie, Girls Trip. Haddish didn’t make the cut, although The Academy knew well enough to invite her not only to read the nominations, but also show up as a …
What a year for Michelle Wolf! After releasing her first stand-up special over the winter on HBO, Wolf has earned her own talk show series on Netflix, and today, she’s announced as the 2018 keynote speaker for the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. This is true news. https://t.co/CCQkciq5bl — Michelle …
After expanding from one to three rooms in the spaces it already owned in Greenwich Village, the iconic Comedy Cellar is heading west, opening its first club in Las Vegas. The Comedy Cellar at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, a 300-seat venue complete with the Cellar’s low ceiling aesthetic, brick …
The woman who designed the classic animal characters for BoJack Horseman is creating her own Netflix animated series, and Tiffany Haddish will voice the lead character for it. Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of Tuca & Bertie, a comedy about two 30-year-old bird women who live in the same apartment …
Netflix owned comedy in 2017. In 2018 and beyond, who knows? Jim Gaffigan, whose first five hours of stand-up comedy stream exclusively on Netflix, has announced he’ll release his upcoming sixth special, Noble Ape, this summer on multiple major platforms simultaneously. “I wanted to make sure NOBLE APE is available to everyone …
Benji Aflalo is a stand-up comedian, who alone together with comedy pal Esther Povitsky, created, executive produces and stars in the sitcom Alone Together — which already has been picked up for second season by Freeform. They play versions of themselves, friends from different backgrounds trying to find love and …
Is Chris Rock’s Tamborine his best stand-up comedy special? Well, no. Is it his most interesting, most revealing and perhaps most important hour for these times? Perhaps yes. And that’s all you really need to know about the first of two Netflix specials Rock has up his sleeves. That, and …
