The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Artie Lange has returned to the airwaves on The AA Show with Anthony Cumia following his latest stint in rehab, and faces sentencing Feb. 23 from his arrest last fall. In a lengthy interview with Mandy Stadtmiller published this week in The Daily Beast, Lange opened up about struggling with …
Joe Recca, was a social worker, a black belt, and according to his website, “The Funniest Man in Clean Comedy!” Recca died last week in Baltimore. No further details were released. Born in Chicago and raised in Virginia Beach, Recca graduated from Norfolk State University in 1986 with a degree in …
Just a quarter of a century ago, you could see gay comedians on TV but never really knew they were gay. Then came Bob Smith. Smith was the first openly gay man to perform stand-up on The Tonight Show, as well as star in his own HBO half-hour comedy special. …
Oh, Grandma. Barry Lubin, who starred as frontman for the Big Apple Circus as Grandma the Clown from 1982-2012 and again in 2017, abruptly resigned after admitting to coercing a 16-year-old in 2004 to posing for pornographic pictures. Lubin resigned on Friday, and The New York Times reported the news …
I’ve enjoyed Todd Glass since even before I knew exactly who he was, seeing him in the introduction movies for the Improv comedy clubs. Then came Last Comic Standing. Then came podcasts. Now comes his first Netflix special. Things I particularly enjoyed in Act Happy: Telling jokes while his band …
We’re still learning more about what’s going on over at Funny or Die HQ, but suffice it to say, 2018 isn’t opening on a high note, as the company just announced additional layoffs. FoD closed the NYC office last year, and also eliminated jobs in San Mateo, consolidating much of …
What a huge day for comedians and comedy fans. Please welcome Academy Award nominees Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, for writing a screenplay based on how they met and fell in love, in The Big Sick; Jordan Peele, for writing and directing one of 2017’s best movies and commentaries …
For the first time, a stand-up comedian from Finland performed on American TV. Call him Ismo! Ismo Leikola is a big deal over in Finland, and moved to America after winning the Laugh Factory’s Funniest Person in the World contest. Ismo made his his American late-night TV debut Monday on Conan, …
Bill Cosby may be a disgraced comedy legend now, facing retrial this spring on charges of drugging and raping at least one woman (dozens of other women have come forward with similar accusations). But Cosby, now 80, decided to emerge once more, to perform for the first time since his …
VICE News Tonight on HBO gathered a group of New York City comedians and let them conduct their own roundtable discussion about how much fun — or not so much fun — it is to tell jokes to audiences now that Donald Trump is in power. Watch and learn from …
