The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Gad Elmaleh is French Moroccan, but the comedian and actor is fully assimilating into America now, as he demonstrated in this stand-up performance in English on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. You can hear Elmaleh describe his move to America and learning English and why in …
We’ve all heard and seen the reports coming in from theaters and comedy clubs across the country this past year. Donald Trump’s divide-and-conquer presidential campaign, which currently has us in America facing a distinctly unique constitutional crisis, has influenced not just the behavior of Americans in public settings related to …
Harith Iskander calls himself “the godfather of stand-up comedy in Malaysia.” Now Iskander has an even grander moniker to go by: “Funniest Person in the World.” Plus a whopping $100,000 in cash prize money. It all came courtesy of the Laugh Factory, the Hollywood-based comedy club which just finished its …
Dan Levy has a new stand-up special out on Seeso called Lion, in which he learns which animal he acts like in real life. Which may change depending upon how he has to react as a husband and father now. Levy joked about parenting and marriage in Tuesday’s episode of …
Alan Thicke was never known as a comedian, but his playful sense of humor allowed him to impact our collective comedy psyche for more than a generation — as a writer/producer of a cult classic talk-show parody, songwriter for classic 1980s sitcoms, host of an infamous late-night talk show challenge …
Cycle, a media company and 24/7 content studio, has produced webisodes following athletes and musicians “All Day” to capture a slice of their lives, and today Cycle unveiled its first “All Day” episode with a stand-up comedian, Roast Battle winner and Inside Amy Schumer writer Mike Lawrence. The video below …
If you’re one of the millions of fans of comedian Henry Phillips who’ve watched his YouTube series, “Henry’s Kitchen,” then you’ll be pleased to know that you now can buy his brand-new cookbook — just in time for a holiday or housewarming gift! Here’s the official description for the 76-page …
IFC has hosted webseries for the past several years as part of a project called Comedy Crib. Today, the cable TV network announced not only two new webseries for it, but also a half-hour time slot on TV. Comedy Crib: The Show will debut at 4 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 21, …
Late Night with Seth Meyers debuted on Feb. 24, 2014, but the Meyers edition of NBC’s late-late talk show — following in the footsteps of David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon — didn’t start to find its own footing until he first ditched the stand-up monologue to open the …
Hi friends and followers. I’ve launched a brand-new column over at Decider.com. An explanation? Alrighty then! Our favorite movies and music we can go back to whenever we want to find comfort, solace or escape. Comedians do that for us, too, in the here and now – although comedy, unlike …
