The Definitive Guide to Comedy
With an Emmy nomination and lots of controversy, Bill Maher has won enough approval from HBO to garner him three more years of “Real Time” on Friday nights. Already renewed for season 16 in 2018, Real Time with Bill Maher received an order for two additional seasons today by HBO. …
We’re back from summer break, which means the late-night TV shows are back live, and that means more chances for stand-up comedians to ply their trades on the telly. Great news for Julian McCullough, who mentioned his good fortune on Tuesday’s Late Late Show with James Corden. McCullough also joked …
Can Marc Maron be happy and funny at the same time? A fair enough question, considering his personal and professional circumstances by 2017, when he has just now released his first Netflix stand-up comedy special. The short answer: Yes. Longer answers, in my review of Marc Maron: Too Real, via …
Joey Edmonds had an impact on the comedy world twice, first as half of the duo Edmonds and Curley, then for future generations of stand-up comedians performing at colleges across America as agent/manager of Joey Edmonds Presents. Edmonds died over the weekend. Born Joe Putzer, he grew up in Oshkosh, …
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has hired Dulcé Sloan as the latest correspondent to join “The Best F#@king News Team.” Sloan will make her first appearance on the show this week with an in-studio desk piece. From Comedy Central: Sloan was recently named by Rolling Stone as one of the 10 Comedians You Need to …
Scot Armstrong grew up outside of Chicago and first studied comedy under the legendary Del Close, before moving to New York City and joining the Upright Citizens Brigade improv troupe Mother, whose members included Jason Mantzoukas, Jon Daly and Jessica St. Clair. He has since worked with St. Clair as …
Shelley Berman, famed comedian and actor whose career spanned several decades, died early this morning at the age of 92 at his home in Bell Canyon, Calif., his publicist Glenn Schwartz told The Comic’s Comic. Berman, born Feb. 3, 1925, in Chicago, died from complications of Alzheimer’s Disease, which was the only reason …
Austin’s Paramount Theatre has gathered some all-star comedians together to put on a big ol’ benefit fund-raiser to help out fellow Texans flooded and hurting from Hurricane Harvey. Ron White, Iliza Shlesinger, Chris D’Elia and more will perform on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2017, at The Paramount for The Harvey Relief …
Just when you thought Nathan For You couldn’t get any crazier, Comedy Central has unveiled the trailer for season four. Check it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ9xBooAADM It all starts Sept. 21, 2017, with an hourlong special called Nathan For You: A Celebration, in which Fielder reconnects with former guests of the show, including P.I. Brian Wolfe, the …
Certainly we’re past the peak of this comedy boom now that anyone can play pretend stand-up comedian and/or pretend heckler in a video game, right? Comedy Night, an XBox game from 2012 that you may or may not remember, is back in a new virtual form, released this past week …
