The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kev Adams is France’s biggest young comedy star, with 6 million Twitter followers and another 5 million checking out his Instagram. He was performing one-man shows in Paris while still a teenager, and starred in 692 episodes of the TV series, Soda. He also co-starred in two hit movies in …
As Jimmy Kimmel told Chris Laker: “You really do have beautiful hair.” Laker joked that he gets mistaken not only because of his hair but also because of his face. He really is a happy guy. Happier now that he has this TV credit. Laker also joked about the difference …
Tom Thakkar made a memorable debut on Conan on Wednesday night, but would you have remembered him as much if he went by his birth name, Tom Brady? Thakkar jokes about changing his name, as well as traveling by Spirit Airlines. If he performs on more late-night TV shows, perhaps …
All Def Comedy returns to HBO tonight, premiering the first of five weekly stand-up showcases hosted by Tony Rock on Friday nights from Dec. 1-29. The season showcases well-known comedians such as Deon Cole, DeRay Davis, Gary Owen and JJ Williamson, along with emerging comic talents like Alex Babbitt, Tony …
Jim Nabors, best known in his younger years for playing country bumpkin Gomer Pyle on two different hit TV sitcoms, and in his later years for singing — particularly at the opening of every Indy 500 — has died. He was 87. Nabors died in his home in Hawaii, his …
Before Saturday Night Live, before The Groove Tube even, Ken Shapiro was making funny faces on television with Chevy Chase when nobody knew their faces. Shapiro and Chase performed sketches together on Channel One, then on PBS as the first people seen on-air on The Great American Dream Machine, before …
The Sundance Film Festival has announced its slate of world premieres for January 2018, and among them are two notable new comedy projects. Futile and Stupid Gesture, David Wain’s biopic of Doug Kenney, co-creator of The National Lampoon, as well as the screenwriter of Animal House and Caddyshack, stars Will …
In a year when the truth is more ridiculous than comedy, why not learn that a comedian could be at the center of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election? Randy Credico revealed this week that Congress had subpoenaed him to appear before the House Intelligence Committee …
Brian Regan went on a riff earlier this month when he played Carnegie Hall for the first time as part of the 2017 New York Comedy Festival. And Regan got downright sincere and soft, talking about his father, who had recently passed away. Regan’s first Netflix special in a two …
In 2017, when every comedian wants to be on Netflix, it’s rare to find someone put out their new stand-up special everywhere BUT Netflix. But Bob Saget isn’t every comedian. And he’d focus on the word butt and go off on a tangent for a few minutes before we could …
