The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central has filled part of the whole in its late-night talk-show programming with a new weekly talker by Australian comedian Jim Jefferies. The show, as of yet untitled, will run for at least 10 weeks starting this summer. Jefferies starred in the semi-autobiographical sitcom, Legit, which ran for two …
You’ve heard or read about comedian Mo Amer taking a flight across the Atlantic seated next to Eric Trump, but here on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Amer got to mine it for even more jokes. Amer, a refugee from Kuwait, also joked about growing up …
Who’s joining Jimmy Pardo, Matt Belknap and Pat Francis for their eighth annual Pardcast-a-Thon, happening for 12 hours this Saturday live from Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, Calif.? Among the known, announced guests: Jon Hamm, Sarah Silverman, Lauren Ash, Paul F. Tompkins, Scott Aukerman, Randall Park, Kumail Nanjiani, Rachel Bloom, and …
Kate Berlant and John Early are unique characters in stand-up comedy, and yet you almost always see them together, whether it’s in each other’s half-hour specials for Netflix’s The Characters, in their joint project for Vimeo, 555, or on the bill together on shows from New York City to Los …
When people said Trump would be good for comedy, they were thinking about punchlines, and not ratings. And yet, the first month for Americans living under President Donald Trump has sent them scurrying to different TV stations after their late local news than they had been watching just a couple …
However you feel about comedy classes, Steve Martin may change your mind. The online MasterClass series includes sessions you can watch and pay for in which Serena Williams, Frank Gehry, Gordon Ramsay, Shonda Rhimes, Aaron Sorkin, Dustin Hoffman and more, sharing their process with you and hopefully inspiring you to …
To celebrate the release of his newest comedy album, Myq Kaplan performed on Wednesday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden. No Kidding! No, really. That’s the name of his album. You know how words work. And you shall laugh at Kaplan’s bit about meeting a medium, which …
When Chris Hardwick isn’t talking walkers and zombies and survivors on AMC, he’ll still have a spot on the cable channel for all of the other Sunday nights, too. AMC announced Talking with Chris Hardwick, which premieres 11 p.m. ET/PT on April 9, 2017, the week following the seventh-season finale …
This is the second time already in 2017 that I’ve had the chance to take another look at a comedian I saw onstage the year before in their Off-Broadway run of a show. First came Neal Brennan’s 3 Mics. And now comes Mike Birbiglia’s Thank God For Jokes on Netflix. …
Almost as if I’d just produced my annual list of comedy festivals and asked the folks at Superfly for details about their planned summer shindig with Comedy Central in San Francisco, here comes Colossal Clusterfest! It’s happening June 2-4, 2017, at the Civic Center Plaza & Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, …
