The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For perhaps the first time ever (?), all of the Grammy nominees for Comedy Album of the Year are audio recordings from Netflix specials and/or a concert film. One of the nominees, Dave Chappelle, is for TWO specials. And you can start wondering if Louis CK sabotaged his own bid …
All hail Donald Glover! After making perhaps the best new TV series of 2017 with Atlanta on FX, he’s now up for Best Album of the Year (Awaken, My Love!) and Best Record of the Year (Redbone) at the 2018 Grammy Awards as Childish Gambino. Congrats!
Bill Burr has announced the lineup for the 6th annual Patrice Oneal Comedy Benefit, to be held Feb. 20, 2018, at New York City Center. Tickets are on sale now for $75 (the show always sells out). Here’s the synopsis with the 2018 lineup: On November 29, 2011 one of …
Orny Adams played Coach Bobby Finstock for six seasons of MTV’s Teen Wolf. But to comedy fans, Orny is famously and infamously known as the co-star of Jerry Seinfeld’s documentary, Comedian. While Seinfeld developed a new hour of stand-up from scratch, Comedian followed Orny’s obsessive path as an aspiring comedian …
Who is the better Jerry Seinfeld: Seinfeld himself, or Jimmy Fallon? Fallon challenged Seinfeld to a “stand-up battle” on the Thanksgiving 2017 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Really more just a chance to hear some old Seinfeld bits, as well as for Fallon to show off his …
Kenny DeForest made his debut Wednesday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, and he joked about grappling with his smoking addiction, and explained how Missouri really picked the wrong side in the Civil War. Roll the clip!
Here’s the thing about Al Franken. Make that things. Some people loved seeing Franken on Saturday Light Live. Some didn’t. Some people love how Franken has represented his fellow Minnesotans and Americans as a U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party. Some hate him for it. I’ve only spoken to him …
In case you missed it Monday night on PBS, here is the edited full telecast from last month’s celebration of David Letterman for receiving the 2017 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Edited out: Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who had introduced clips of Letterman’s “Monkey-Cam” as well as Funny or …
You’ve seen Bob Saget’s friendly face on TV for four decades now, ever since he starred in the late 1980s in the ABC sitcom Full House as well as the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos. More recently, he has provided the narrator’s voice of future Ted Mosby for the CBS …
Here they are…Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… has announced nine new half-hour installments to tape this December in New Orleans, and they’re coming at you from Emmy Blotnick, Tim Dillon, Devin Field, Megan Gailey, Chris Garcia, Langston Kerman, Mike Lawrence, Ryan O’Flanagan, and Sarah Tiana! They’ll record their half-hours Dec. 8-9, 2017, at …
