The Definitive Guide to Comedy
To the surprise of perhaps nobody outside of Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the audio double-album of his first two Netflix specials of 2017, The Age of Spin and Deep In the Heart of Texas. Chappelle hadn’t put out a comedy album …
In the past year, Donald Glover has won Emmy Awards for his TV show (FX’s Atlanta) and now owns a Grammy Award for his musical moniker, Childish Gambino. He won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance on Sunday night for “Redbone,” and also performed during the telecast his song, “Terrified,” …
Conan O’Brien and Team Coco have found magic in the past few years by taking Conan out of the United States for a series of one-hour travelogue specials. They’re usually planned out in advance, with help from local celebrities or tie-ins to the show. Haiti is and was different. This …
Multiple sketches this past weekend on the Will Ferrell-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live either mentioned the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements directly, or indirectly took a satirical view of how culture has either maligned women or promoted an atmosphere that allowed men to take advantage of women sexually. And then …
Will Ferrell made fun of “strategery” and has always helped us laugh with former President George W. Bush as much as laugh at him, not only during Ferrell’s run on Saturday Night Live, but also in a big Broadway production after Bush left office. One year into the Trump era, …
Rob Haze is a great up-and-coming stand-up who made his debut Friday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Don’t make such a big deal about finding out his age, though. He’s grown, and that’s all you need to know. He’s also a survivor of bullying. And that’s not …
Sam Morril was back on Conan on Thursday night, and he’s up to speed on what’s up these days. Men are bad. Predators are worse. So where does that leave the NHL’s Nashville Predators? He also has figured out a way to compare sex without condoms to basketball, and at …
During last night’s “Apology Race” episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee announced that she and her TBS crew will produce a one-hour special traveling to Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Full Frontal episode will air Wednesday, March 28, 2018.
Thirty years after it debuted and 20 years after it went off the air, Murphy Brown is returning to CBS. The Eye Network announced the revival Wednesday with a straight-back-to-series 13-episode order. Named one of the “25 Greatest TV Characters of All Time” by TV Guide, and singled out by Vice …
When Josh Gondelman isn’t writing for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he’s performing stand-up comedy across America or inspiring Twitter followers around the world with his pep talks. On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Gondelman joked about his new marriage and the new pug he and his wife …
