The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Like most stand-up comedians, Al Madrigal had not expected we’d ever live to see a President Trump. “I didn’t think it would happen. It happened!” Madrigal, who plays Edgar in the new Showtime series, I’m Dying Up Here, jokes in his first hour special for the network, Shrimpin’ Ain’t Easy, …
Mark Normand has toured with Amy Schumer as her opening act for the past few years, and she didn’t let him forget whose boss, as she not only produced Normand’s first hour stand-up comedy special for Comedy Central, but also appears in the title and in the opening scene. Amy …
Sarah Silverman made her comedy bones in the 1990s and 2000s by delivering dirty jokes with a look that influenced a generation of young millennial women who have since entered stand-up comedy. But Silverman also has proven her worth in this business by demonstrating her range, from musical talents to …
Jake Thomas, nephew of SCTV star Dave Thomas, sustained a massive spinal cord injury this January that has left him paralyzed from the waist down. To help not only Jake and his family, but also help fund research and other patients at Spinal Cord Injury Ontario, Dave Thomas has organized …
Kevin Hart has a new memoir out, “I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons,” and he sat down with CBS Sunday Morning to talk about his childhood growing up poor in Philadelphia and finding the funny in his family. Hart will appear this coming weekend at BookCon in New York …
Kathy Griffin took part in a photo shoot where she held up a dummy head covered in blood, conceived to make you think it was Alec Baldw…no, Donald Trump. Which, of course, is provocative no matter whose effigy it represented. But when you’re pretending the sitting president of the United …
Casey Crawford‘s not a lumberjack, but he’s OK. He jokes all night and he sleeps all day. Or so you might think. Straight from The Comedy Studio in Cambridge, Mass., to Hollywood, Calif., Crawford made his TV debut on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Roll the clip.
Comedians and folks within the industry have caught the bug on Puddles Pity Party already, but for many millions of Americans, tonight’s season premiere of America’s Got Talent was their first taste of the sad clown with the bellowing singing voice. Roll the clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tyr92K218M
Preacher Lawson won the 2016 Seattle International Comedy Competition, so what’s next for him? How about America’s Got Talent in 2017?! Here’s his initial audition before the judges, which prompted them to ask for an encore already. Roll the clip!
Would you like a signed copy of Amy Poehler’s book, “Yes, Please?” Yes, please! How about the original paper mache art sculpture of Maria Bamford’s pug Arnold that appears throughout Bamford’s Netflix special, Old Baby? Those things and much more, plus personal items owned by dozens of Los Angeles comedians …
