The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Something remarkable happened on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It wasn’t one of the many game shows within Fallon’s talk shows, or something his musical guest performed, or anything from Fallon’s monologue or from his overly enthusiastic interactions with his guests. Nor was it even particularly …
Kathleen Madigan is going on her very own theater tour to kick off 2018, taking her to at least 30 cities between January and June. Madigan announced her “Boxed Wine & Bigfoot Tour” from one of her favorite local bars. “I had most of the summer off, then this September …
Congrats to Ellis Rodriguez from Sacramento, who won the 42nd annual San Francisco Comedy Competition, which wrapped up its monthlong contest around Northern California this past weekend. Wait, who won again? The other finalists: 2nd Place: Tyrone Hawkins (Cincinnati, OH) 3rd Place: Mark Smalls (San Francisco, CA) 4th Place: Matt …
Matt Goldich supplies monologue jokes and other punchlines for Seth Meyers on a nightly basis, but on Wednesday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, Goldich also got some major face time with a stand-up performance to promote his new album, which is out this Friday. Not a soft opening. Roll …
