The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you miss The Soup, and you particularly missed Joel McHale, then Netflix has great news for you. The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale, a new weekly topical half-hour series, debuts Feb. 18, 2018, with 13 episodes ordered. It’ll tape on Thursdays and air new episodes Sundays. The official …
“I’m at work right now. Does this blow anybody else’s mind?” Jeff Dye wonders why any woman would call him immature, when stand-up comedy is what he does, professionally. Dye explained in this performance Friday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Roll the clip.
Mo Welch dreamed of playing in the WNBA, but performing stand-up comedy on Conan isn’t half-bad, right? Especially if you can weave in a song about the WNBA into your comedy act. Roll the clip!
On last night’s episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee opened her weekly TBS show by examining how there’s already a backlash against the #MeToo movement, or as Bee jokingly calls the backlash, the #YouTooLoud movement. Bee said the “Shitty Media Men” list that was so popular and anonymous …
Natasha Leggero, eight months pregnant with her first child with husband Moshe Kasher, appeared last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the third season of Another Period, which premieres on Comedy Central next Tuesday. When Leggero jokingly mentioned not naming the baby Harvey Weinstein, Kimmel asked if she, too, …
Katt Williams knows that comedy is show business, and you need to know both the business and how to put on a show. Williams told me that this morning in an exclusive interview for my podcast, Last Things First, and he certainly still delivers when it’s time to shine. His …
Tiffany Haddish loves Groupon so much, the online discount company decided to return the favor and make Haddish the company spokesperson! As the company explained yesterday: “Tiffany Haddish likes us. No, she really, really likes us. We were tickled when we heard her tell a story about taking certain A-listers …
If everything you know about Scotland you learned from watching Braveheart, then you don’t know what Scotland’s like today. Daniel Sloss explained in a return performance to Conan on Monday. Then again, Sloss watching political news on the TV confuses him, because he reacts as if he’s watching a TV …
Comedy Central soon will have its own live morning radio show: You Up with Nikki Glaser. Glaser, who previously hosted a primetime TV talker, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, on Comedy Central in 2016, will host live Mondays through Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern (7 to 9 a.m. …
When Johnny Carson retired into the late-night sunset, never to be seen again except for a rare appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, I was OK with that. But Letterman retiring didn’t seem exactly right. Certainly he couldn’t keep up with the Jimmy Fallons or James Cordens. Certainly …
