The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The child of Afghan immigrants, Fahim Anwar grew up in Seattle, went to the University of Washington and got a job at Boeing in aerospace engineering to make his parents proud. But Anwar had a different dream, and no, I don’t mean the dancing machine Lance Cantstopolis. He took a …
I wrote up eight thoughts worth sharing and exploring while watching Jerrod Carmichael’s new hour of stand-up, 8, on HBO. Bo Burnham directed Carmichael in 8 for HBO, which made for some interesting and special choices, from the formal dress code and setting of putting young people in the Masonic …
Amy Schumer’s stand-up specials have jumped from Comedy Central — the network that showcased her rise from roasts to Inside Amy Schumer — to HBO and now Netflix. Because how can Comedy Central compete with Netflix at this point? But that’s beside the point of this review. Schumer calls her …
Anthony DeVito made his network TV debut on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where he acknowledged that his facial features make him “ethnically ambiguous,” which can be a plus and a minus in this era. It also makes him the future! If so, the future also …
What happens when The Late Late Show with James Corden writer Nate Fernald pitches himself as a substitute host for Corden? This is episode one of Fernald’s side project, with special guests Nina Dobrev and Chris Hardwick. Roll the clip!
“I got a hundred likes on the pictures, so this doesn’t really matter right now.” That’s Sam Jay making her late-night debut on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. She jokes about how we should lean into our stereotypes, and despite everything, still be nice to old white men. Roll the clip!
Kurt Braunohler has a new one-hour special (and comedy album) out now thanks to Comedy Central, and he’s about to become a brand-new dad, too. Which had Braunohler thinking dad jokes on Conan, as well as about the problems with dads in America. Roll the clip. You can check out …
San Diego (and New York City) may have their Comic-Cons, but Silicon Valley will have it’s first-ever Comic Conival this June, thanks to Nerdist leader Chris Hardwick. Only it’s not called Nerdist fest. This June 24-25, 2017, Hardwick presents the ID10T Music Festival & Comic Conival at the Shoreline Amphitheatre …
Fuse loves its Fluffy. In addition to the third season of Fluffy’s Food Adventures (the series formerly known as Fluffy Breaks Even), which returns July 11, 2017, the cable network announced not one, not two, not three but four separate webseries starring stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias. As Fluffy Breaks Even, …
Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs have stepped up from Broad City to the big screen. Aniello directs and co-writes Rough Night with Downs, which sees “five best friends from college (played by Scarlett Johansson, Kate McKinnon, Jillian Bell, Ilana Glazer, and Zoë Kravitz) reunite 10 years later for a …
