The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Rachel Feinstein’s parents are a disaster on Facebook. Embarrassing for Rachel and her friends, but funny when she explains it to us as she did on Wednesday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Roll the clip!
There’s something more assured and charming about the Christina Pazsitzky that we see in her first Netflix comedy special, Mother Inferior, than we first saw from her three years ago on the TBS comedy competition, Funniest Wins. She has shortened her last name to P to make things easier for …
When you think of blue-collar comedians, well, first off, you think of cowboys and not actual blue-collar workers. Thanks, Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Foxworthy. But when you think of cowboy comedians, you might not think of Rodney Carrington — despite the fact that he’s sold enough albums to …
Best known for his work on Ren & Stimpy, Billy West has been making magic with his character voice work since the 1980s, starting on the radio in Boston and graduating to the Howard Stern Show. He has voiced the title characters on the Nickelodeon series Doug, as well as …
Technology has ruined some things these days, Nathan Macintosh argued in his performance Friday on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Like phone calling and self check-out, for examples. Macintosh also yearns for the days when you could visit a video store to rent your next movie, because you might …
Ralphie May, a larger than life stand-up comedian who won the hearts of America if not also their votes in the very first season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, has died. May was 45. Though battling pneumonia for the past week, May continued to show up for his 2017 residency …
