The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kevin McGahern, an Irish stand-up comedian who has hosted clip and sketch comedy TV series Republic of Telly when not telling jokes in Ireland’s comedy clubs, has come to America. Weird America, premiering the day after St. Patrick’s Day (2 p.m. Saturday, March 18) on the Travel Channel, will follow McGahern …
Lots of fascinating stuff comes out of Vulture’s new cover story interview with David Letterman, now almost two years removed from his reign on late-night TV. Take this excerpt, for example: There’s this idea that reducing Trump to a punchline could make him seem harmless or helps to normalize him. …
Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy will put on their own comedy and music festival this summer, and they’re taking it on the road across America. RFD-TV presents Jeff & Larry’s Backyard BBQ Festival, promoted exclusively by Live Nation, will feature the comedy of Jeff Foxworthy and Larry The Cable Guy, along …
The Umbilical Brothers aren’t actually brothers, but the comedy bond between Australians Shane Dundas and David Collins has lasted for three decades and taken them all over the world with their dynamic duo act that mixes mime, slapstick and stand-up. They’ve performed on late-night for Letterman and Leno, after James …
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 …
