The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The flagship theater for the Upright Citizens Brigade is moving on up out of the basement of Gristedes supermarket in Chelsea and into a 160-seat theater space of its own in Hell’s Kitchen. After 14 years on West 26th Street, the UCB Theatre will move to 555 W. 42nd St. …
Irish comedian Sean Hughes was only 24 when he won the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s top prize for his 1990 showcase, “A One Night Stand with Sean Hughes.” Hughes returned to Edinburgh this past August with friends for an improvised showcase, “Sean Hughes’s Blank Book.” Hughes broke through young, and he …
Wyatt Cenac is joining John Oliver and Jon Stewart in making the jump to HBO. HBO announced a new 10-episode late-night series starring Cenac that will debut in spring 2018. The untitled series stars Cenac, and will be executive produced by him alongside Oliver, Ezra Edelman and Hallie Haglund, who’ll …
Kevin Hart will return to an arena near you in 2018, as he’s just announced his new Irresponsbile Tour, kicking off New Year’s Eve in Orlando. The first 16 dates of the tour, produced by Live Nation, will feature new stand-up material, with tickets going on sale Oct. 20 at …
Vladimir Caamaño grew up in an immigrant Dominican family in the Bronx to live the American comedy dream. Since breaking out as a New Face in the 2015 Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal, he has been anointed by Howie Mandel in a televised gala for The CW, co-wrote …
Kumail Nanjiani hosted the Oct. 14, 2017, episode of Saturday Night Live (season 43, episode 3) and delivered a stand-up comedy monologue that was as funny as it was heartfelt. Much like his critically-acclaimed movie from earlier this year, The Big Sick. Nanjiani touched not only on how his Muslim …
Welcome to the late-night TV hosting club, Robin Thede! Thursday night’s premiere of The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET proved that Thede had a lot more to offer than we saw in her brief tenure as head writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. As …
Not since William Shatner’s spoken-word music album became nostalgically and ironically hip in the 1990s have I not known what to make of something like this, but here was Bill Murray, performing a medley of West Side Story tunes alongside his classical music friends on Thursday’s Late Show with Stephen …
Ismael Loutfi made his TV debut Thursday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, but don’t worry, Loutfi jokingly knows he’s ethnic but in a non-threatening “welcome to college” brochure way (as pictured above!). Loutfi was on a road trip from Tennessee to Atlanta on Election Night last November, and recounted the …
Don’t get as excited about the title for this Google Talk as I and others may have. Yes, Brian Regan visited Google for an interview and Q&A session this summer, and Google titled it “How to Make People Laugh.” The interview with Regan doesn’t quite go that deep on the …
