The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Norm Macdonald is Canada’s most-famous play-by-play golf commentator on Twitter. Of course, you know and love Norm Macdonald even more for his years anchoring Weekend Update on Saturday Night Live in the mid-1990s, followed by The Norm Show on ABC. He’s also much beloved by David Letterman and many other …
Stephen Colbert got the gang back together again, that gang being his former co-workers on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, circa 2005, before Colbert left their ranks. So Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Ed Helms and Rob Corddry joined Stewart and Colbert for a flashback sketch and many good-time panel …
I had the opportunity to speak to Norm Macdonald right after I had previewed his new Netflix hour, Hitler’s Dog: Gossip & Trickery. We had a great chat and I’ll post that shortly. But first, my thoughts on Macdonald’s Netflix special. He agreed with me on this part: Toward the …
Zach Galifianakis was Jimmy Kimmel’s first guest back Monday after paternity leave from Jimmy Kimmel Live. We quickly learned that Galifianakis had prepared as if he were guest hosting for Kimmel. Sure they joked about it in the opening segment. But Galifianakis had done his homework, as we also saw …
New York City comedians likely knew or heard about last year’s inaugural Skankfest, which brought in Doug Stanhope, Todd Glass, the Impractical Jokers and more alongside organizers Legion of Skanks (Luis J. Gomez, Dave Smith and Big Jay Oakerson) at The Creek and the Cave. For their second year, they’re …
After almost a year off the air since Comedy Central abruptly canceled The Nightly Show, Larry Wilmore is Black on the Air. That’s the title of Wilmore’s new podcast, announced today by The Ringer as part of its podcast network. Wilmore will kick off his podcast series with guest Norman …
San Francisco’s first-ever Colossal Clusterfest this June will include interactive exhibits for fans of hit sitcoms South Park, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Seinfeld. The Seinfeld set-up at Clusterfest features a full-scale re-creation of Jerry’s apartment in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a Festivus pole, and food from Monk’s …
I’d reviewed Chris Gethard’s one-man show, “Career Suicide,” more than a year ago while he was still performing it at his comedy home, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City. Enjoyed it then, and perhaps even more now that Gethard had the time to workshop it across America, …
Aunty Donna is an Australian sketch comedy group that includes no aunts and no Donnas, but instead one Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly and Zachary Ruane. They burst onto the comedy scene Down Under with their first show in 2012 at Melbourne’s comedy and fringe festivals. They produced a new …
You can put a suit on Pete Lee, but it’s not going to disguise his wholesome face and Midwestern accent, as he proved and then joked about in his performance on Friday’s Tonight Show. Lee crushed with a series of jokes mocking his supposed softness and earned multiple applause breaks …
