The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nikki Glaser returned to The Tonight Show on Friday night, and we learned about her two dogs and BOGO, although she didn’t tell us if that’s how she got her dogs, as well as a taste of her stellar Jen Aniston impersonation. Roll the clip!
Not everything needs to be a period piece. On the small screen, both Marc Maron and Pete Holmes brought their recent pasts into present-day so they could have the best of both worlds for their comedic purposes in IFC’s Maron and HBO’s Crashing. Similarly, when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. …
Can Emmy nominations save Seeso? For the sake of the programming department, decimated by layoffs from parent company NBCUniversal that will leave most of them unemployed a week from now, let’s hope so. Then again, every once in a while, the Emmy Awards make it awkward by presenting trophies to …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
I trust you shall enjoy this new performance by Keith Alberstadt on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Even if you’re not ready to explore new baby names just yet, or guess what Alberstadt wants to name his first child with his new wife. If they have children. Roll the …
San Francisco already has a monthlong comedy festival in January (SF Sketchfest), and a giant outdoor music festival each August (Outside Lands), but how about something that combines elements of both, right at the beginning of the summer? Comedy Central had partnered with the New York Comedy Festival for the …
Do you think you can handle one more comedy festival before the end of the summer? KAABOO Del Mar says: Humor Me. At its third annual live music and entertainment bash, KAABOO Del Mar has an all-star stand-up comedy lineup planned for an indoor, all-conditioned seated comedy club called HUMOR …
Tom Papa returned to perform again on Conan, and he wants us all to shut up about how fat we’re getting because all of us have gotten fat, and there’s no turning back. No TV makeover show can make us feel better than we already should feel. It’s OK! Roll …
Variety has done it again, teaming up with Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival this summer to toast 10 up-and-coming comedians who the trade magazine sees as future superstars. If they’re not already well on their way, that is. The 10 Comics to Watch will be feted July 27, 2017, at …
John Mulaney and Nick Kroll’s run of Oh Hello, On Broadway, now filmed for Netflix, was a triumphant two-man tour-de-farce. Not only was their Broadway production packed with jokes, but in the middle of their massive joke sandwich, the characters of Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland inserted about 10 …
