The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Funny or Die has its hands in multiple projects on both the small screens of TV and the big movie screens. Brockmire premieres on IFC this week after first appearing as a single video on Funny or Die. The company also launched and produces @midnight on Comedy Central, Billy on …
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, there were two places to go to find the best sketch comedians and improvising funny people in America: The Second City in Chicago and The Groundlings in Los Angeles. Gary Austin put The Groundlings on the map, founding the sketch and improv troupe …
Finally! Continuing in Comedy Central’s grand tradition of producing groundbreaking late night formats, comes The President Show. Just like a certain chief executive in Washington, The President Show gleefully tosses out the rulebook of its predecessors. Created by Anthony Atamanuik who hosts as Donald J. Trump, and produced by Clone …
Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing and acting in film and television. With his group Broken Lizard, he has co-written, co-starred and directed their feature films, Super Troopers, Beerfest and Club Dread. He’s also directed the big-screen version of Dukes of Hazzard, small-screen episodes of Arrested …
Ask any stand-up comedian today who the best stand-up of all time is or was, and they’ll likely tell you Richard Pryor, George Carlin, or want to make cases for both equally as the top of the tops. Ask any Jewish comedian from the Baby Boomers through Generation X that …
Jo Koy‘s newest stand-up special finds him, like other comedians who have been around for a while but not on Netflix yet, devoting the hour as much to reintroducing himself to the audience as he is delving into new developments in his life. Here’s an excerpt from my review of …
I received a press release this morning, the same release you saw on Twitter later if you happened to follow @PresidentShow. “Late night TV is broken. A TOTAL DISASTER. I alone can fix it!” "Late night TV is broken. A TOTAL DISASTER. I alone can fix it!" https://t.co/u3HObey9FO — The …
A.D. Miles, Jimmy Fallon’s first and only head writer for both Late Night and The Tonight Show, is stepping out. “Riding Jimmy Fallon’s coattails for the past eight years has given me all the confidence I need to strike out on my own and work on a movie with Jimmy Fallon,” …
Shortly before midnight on Friday, an electrical fire broke out in a packed Union Hall. Nobody was hurt as the venue in Park Slope Brooklyn evacuated and FDNY arrived on scene. But the popular bar and concert/comedy venue is closed indefinitely now. Shows scheduled through at least April 15 have …
Some news in that there intro of Brian Regan on last night’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Regan is the latest greatest stand-up comedian to announce he’s filming a special in 2017 for Netflix. Regan has signed a two-special deal with Netflix, the first one filming this June while he’s …
