The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The last time I spoke at length with Felipe Esparza, he was enjoying the fruits of his success as a winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, headlining a theater tour with his fellow finalists that came through New York City’s Times Square in 2010. Esparza quickly capitalized on that with …
NBCUniversal inked a deal with Hulu that’ll grant the streaming platform exclusive rights to several former NBC series and one brand-new series from Seeso that never would’ve seen the light otherwise. The deal includes putting all episodes of 30 Rock on Hulu as of Oct. 1, 2017. Plus, it means …
What does it mean to be black in America? I cannot pretend to truly know myself, but I can turn to my friends with empathy and listen to them, put myself in their shoes. A full generation before Black Lives Matter, Russell Simmons and Stan Lathan were making sure black …
Caleb Synan cleans up well for this performance on Tuesday’s Conan. Synan is from a small Southern town near where they filmed Deliverance, and his hometown’s a bit too proud of that. He has plenty more jokes of his own to be proud of, no matter how many “skits” his …
Moses Storm is a fun young comedian to watch, and this performance on Monday’s Conan is testament to that. Watch how he performs the material so it’s not just a six-minute string of jokes, but a full one-man show that you want to see more of. Until then, watch this!
NBC announced that it has added three new cast members — Heidi Gardner, Luke Null and Chris Redd — to the Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live franchise for its 43rd season, which debuts this Saturday, Sept. 30. Gardner comes from the Groundlings main company in Los Angeles. She is also the …
Chaz Miller, Cameron Miller, and Amanuel Richards are one half of the sketch comedy group Dormtainment, who formed in Atlanta in 2009. They went straight from college to YouTube, and over the next eight years, amassed one million YouTube subscribers, a Comedy Central web series called Six Guys One Car, …
The sun falls into the Pacific as a small commuter train whisks by, momentarily interrupting the rocking sounds of Garbage. And that was just the second stage at KAABOO Del Mar. At this third annual music and comedy festival held at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, just off the northern outskirts …
At Home with Amy Sedaris, premiering Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, with back-to-back episodes on truTV, is a delightfully dizzy spin on crafting how-to, courtesy of the one and only Amy Sedaris. Each week will revolve around a traditional theme, such as entertaining businessmen, the craft of love making and …
If you wondered whether Vice Principals could recapture the same lunacy that marked its first season on HBO, then allow me to remind you that Danny McBride and his usual crazy comedy team of Jody Hill and David Gordon Green filmed both seasons back-to-back two years ago. So they not …
