The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For decades, David Letterman presided over a late-night circus that asked celebrities and made jokes about the headlines of the day. For his next trick on Netflix, Letterman will sit down with people he admires and ask them timeless questions. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman will …
Remember Gary Vider from America’s Got Talent a couple of seasons ago? Vider is back on TV, this time making his proper late-night debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and the comedian not only has advice and life lessons about being a short guy, but also words of …
Netflix already has plans to premiere a new Ricky Gervais stand-up special in early 2018. Now comes word from the comedian that he’s got a second special ordered from the streaming giant. As you may have read, Netflix have bought two stand up specials. The first, Humanity, which I have …
We saw a record number of hour-long stand-up comedy specials released on video in 2017. Were they all worth your time? Probably not. But I can recommend more than a few. A few dozen, in fact. These are the comedy specials from the year just passed that I’d watch with …
Before I deliver some hot, fresh episodes of my podcast, Last Things First, to ring in the new year, you really should check out my year-end episode with Jason Zinoman, the comedy critic for The New York Times. It’s our third annual celebration of the best moments and people in …
Danny Breen made his mark in front of the camera as a cast member for eight seasons on HBO’s sketch comedy series, Not Necessarily The News. But Breen also won multiple Emmys for his work behind the scenes on a producer for Ellen and The Wayne Brady Show. An alum of …
Nick Cannon’s decision to release a stand-up comedy special this year may have cost him his hosting gig on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, but have Cannon front his MTV Wild ‘N Out crew, and they can still fill arenas. And on one night last week, two arenas in two different cities …
Rose Marie, a vaudeville star at 3 and hit radio singer at 5, who performed opening night at Bugsy Siegel’s Flamingto resort in Las Vegas and is best known now for her co-starring role as TV comedy writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, has died. She was …
Feral Audio, the podcast network founded by producer Dustin Marshall in 2012, is dissolving in the wake of abuse allegations against him by his ex-girlfriend. Musician Abby Weems posted this on her band Potty Mouth’s Twitter last week: https://twitter.com/pottymouthworld/status/943999966304911360 Marshall responded with a lengthy Tumblr post, in which he said …
It’s rather remarkable that most all of the funny nonagenarians profiled in this year’s HBO documentary, If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast, managed to make it through 2017 unscathed. But several other comedy legends passed away in 2017, old and not-so-old. Let us take one more look back …
