The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tiffany Haddish stole the show Tuesday night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, charming and captivating Colbert from the very start with her dance moves, and then even more with her hammy answers to his questions. This shouldn’t surprise anyone who has seen the new summer movie, Girls Trip, …
Rojo Perez made sure you paid attention to his late-night TV debut Tuesday on Conan, opening his stand-up performance in Spanish before eventually switching over to English. Perez joked about confusing the audience, as well as how his new pheromone spray may or may not help him get over dating …
How many stand-up comedians would have their credit on network TV be a weekly showcase in a distillery in Williamsburg? That’s how Jimmy Kimmel introduced Charles Gould on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! Gould, a New Face this summer at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, joked about how his therapist would …
With everything that’s happening in America and in the world in 2017, would you believe there’s also room for a 12-year-old singing ventriloquist on America’s Got Talent? Darci Lynne received the “golden buzzer” into the live quarterfinal rounds last night on NBC, where she introduced a mouse puppet named Oscar …
For his first live performance on America’s Got Talent, Preacher Lawson joked about the fastest clapper in the world, and how large his smart phone has gotten over the years. Will he make it through to the next round? Find out if your votes helped him enough tonight on NBC.
We’ll never be royals, but will Puddles Pity Party make it through the quarterfinals of America’s Got Talent in 2017? Not everyone was a fan of his cover of “Royals” by Lorde (we see you, Simon), but perhaps the audience votes will outnumber Mr. Cowell’s buzzer. Roll the clip, and …
The New York Television Festival has announced the 52 official selections for the 2017 Independent Pilot Competition. They include 31 comedy pilots featuring the talents of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bebe Neuwirth, David Wain, Felicia day, John Early, Kyle Dunnigan, Jemima Kirke, Jamie Kaler, Daniel Kellison, Ian Roberts, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Dot-Marie Jones, …
Janicza Bravo has made several short films that debuted at premier festivals such as Sundance and SXSW, and also directed an episode of the hit FX series, Atlanta. Bravo’s first feature film, Lemon, features her husband, Brett Gelman, as an actor and acting coach who turns 40 and realizes nothing in his …
Jo Koy enjoys talking about his son in his stand-up, but now that his son is 14, their relationship just isn’t the same anymore. Koy explained in this performance Friday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Roll the clip.
Saturday Night Live brought back a limited-edition primetime half-hour version of Weekend Update last night. It’s not exactly the same as when they first tried this in 2008. For one thing, those Thursday-night live episodes happened in the run-up to a presidential election. So, secondly, they featured cold opens dealing …
