The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Stevie Ryan, one of the first YouTubers to score her own comedy series on TV, has died. She was 33. Ryan, born June 2, 1984, and raised in Victorville, Calif., moved to Los Angeles at age 19 to pursue a career in show business. After booking various commercial projects, her YouTube …
Erik Griffin is recognizable to fans of Comedy Central’s Workaholics as Montez, but he’s also a veteran stand-up comedian who’s playing a stand-up comedian and a Vietnam veteran in the Showtime series about comedy in the 1970s, I’m Dying Up Here. I sat down with Griffin in LA’s iconic Canter’s …
The Internet’s relentless, rigorous demand for content, combined with show business’s relentless, rigorous desire for cash money, has combined in 2017 to bestow us with a bounty of stand-up comedy hours and variety specials, as well as a rash of rankings by amateur and professional armchair critics alike. My two …
Hood Adjacent with James Davis premiered Wednesday night on Comedy Central, and it’s already proven itself a worthy successor to the network’s groundbreaking Chappelle’s Show and award-winning Key and Peele. Hood Adjacent sits somewhere between those two series both comedically and anthropologically. Just like its host. “It’s my ode to …
Episode #4 of my new Laughly exclusive miniseries, On Second Thought, is out now with my guest Jackie Kashian. On Second Thought asks: If tragedy plus time equals comedy, then comedy plus time equals what now? We don’t have to go very far back to find Kashian already second- and third-guessing her …
Attention all aspiring TV show creators, screenwriters, directors and actors: Today is the deadline to submit for the 2017 New York TV Festival’s annual Independent Pilot Competition! You can submit online until midnight via Withoutabox. The NYTVF office at 121 W. 27th St., in Manhattan, also will be open until …
A couple of weeks after laying off most if not all of its original programming department, NBCUniversal’s digital comedy platform looks ready to part ways with its original programs for Seeso, too. My Decider colleague, Scott Porch, reported last night that Seeso had reached agreements to sell off two programs …
Chris D’Elia’s third hour of stand-up comedy, and second for Netflix, just came out. It’s called Man On Fire, as D’Elia references the Denzel Washington movie to remind us that we may all want to pretend we’re Denzel, but none of us are actually the stars of our own movie. …
Is Netflix giving everyone a comedy special in 2017? You may have feared or hoped that, after hearing country singer Brad Paisley announce he’s got one coming Aug. 15, 2017, but not to fear: Brad Paisley’s Comedy Rodeo features mostly stand-up comedians. And also Reba McEntire and David Hasselhoff. His …
You can hear even more of Big Jay Oakerson and Dan Soder riffing now than you thought possible before, as their SiriusXM talk show, The Bonfire, has expanded from two to four nights a week, starting yesterday. The daily show will now stream Monday through Thursday from 6 to 8 …
