The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jon Dore has pulled stunts on Conan before, but nothing like this. Here he was, Thursday night at the Apollo in NYC, in a centaur costume with an accomplice, pretending to be preparing for a Broadway show. And that’s not even the half of it. Roll the clip.
It’s no longer a rumor. The incident, first reported by comedians to their friends and colleagues in the hours after Louis CK allegedly forced them to watch him masturbate in his hotel room during the 2002 HBO U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, has gone public today, as Dana Min Goodman …
Pat McGann and his wife have three children, all currently under the age of four. That’s a lot of toddler activity in the McGann household, which gives McGann a lot to discuss as a stand-up comedian, performing on Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Roll the clip.
On this Throwback Thursday, comedian Jack Whitehall feels wistfully nostalgic for the old Nokia 3310 mobile phone. Although in his performance on Conan in New York City, Whitehall really wanted to thank America for Trump, if only to make Brexit seem less ridiculous. Nothing seems less ridiculous to Whitehall, though, …
Classes are back in session at Chicagoland’s Fillmore Elementary School, where Ms. Cannon (Caitlin Barlow), Ms. Bennigan (Katie O’Brien), Ms. Snap (Katy Colloton), Ms. Feldman (Cate Freedman), Ms. Watson (Kate Lambert) and Mrs. Adler (Kathryn Renee Thomas) are fulfilling their duties, sort of, as teachers in TV Land’s Teachers. The …
The 14th annual New York Comedy Festival kicks off today, with hundreds of stand-up, improv, sketch and variety showcases across at least three boroughs through Sunday. You never know what kind of magic you might see during the festival. Last year at Carnegie Hall, Tig Notaro brought out the Indigo …
Trae Crowder and his fellow “liberal redneck” comedians Corey Ryan Forrester and Drew Morgan accepted an invitation to perform in the Poconos at The Gathering, a gay naturist retreat. What’s a naturist? They find that out and more in this nine-minute short film presented by Funny or Die. The wellRED fellas …
All week back in Harlem at the Apollo, Team Coco is celebrating the New York Comedy Festival and the TBS partnership with it by featuring a stand-up comedian on each episode. Monday: Former Last Comic Standing winner Rod Man. He joked about how differently you’ll react in a crosswalk when …
CBS has found not one but two replacements to head this January’s annual CBS Diversity sketch comedy showcase in Grace Parra and Stephen Guarino. Parra and Guarino replace longtime director of the showcase, Rick Najera, whom CBS fired last month after investigating multiple sexual harassment claims against him. Parra and …
Judah Friedlander may be best known for playing TV writer Frank Rossitano on the hit NBC sitcom, 30 Rock, but Judah has been making his appearance felt on screens big and small, with or without his trademark trucker hats. From his roles in films such as American Splendor, The Wrestler, …
