The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Look. We all get caught up in awards season, no matter how relevant or ridiculous the award or the process by which they award them. With that in mind, your annual reminder that the Golden Globes have become an annual ritual, and it’s all controlled by the Hollywood Foreign Press …
There’s only one Sinbad the Sailor in fictional lore, and only one Sinbad worth knowing about in the funny business. There really is nobody quite like him, and we’ve seen it since he broke through in a big way on Star Search in the 1980s, through his role on the …
Absolutely delightful, this is. The only way this special could present more joy would be if Adult Swim had had the good sense to premiere Joe Pera Helps You Find the Perfect Christmas Tree two weeks ago, when more of you actually could put Pera’s advice into practice. Well, better …
Tom Papa has a new stand-up special out on EPIX called Human Mule, but for this performance on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Papa is more content to celebrate all of us, and how difficult it can be for us just to get through the day …
In a major vote of confidence, NBC is inviting you to take a closer look at Seth Meyers on New Year’s Eve. No, not Meyers’s role in the film, New Year’s Eve, but a special primetime Saturday edition of his Late Night talker. The Late Night with Seth Meyers New …
Wondering what to look forward to in the first three months of 2017 from Comedy Central? Wonder no more, as the network just announced its scheduling plans. Of course, the stand-up specials in the can or coming soon don’t have release dates just yet, but most everything else does. The …
A Charlie Brown Christmas premiered on CBS on Dec. 9, 1965. Fifty-one years later, Nickelodeon will debut an animated Christmas special that tells the holiday story from the perspective of the tree. Sort of. Albert stars Saturday Night Live’s Bobby Moynihan as Albert, a tiny Douglas fir tree with dreams of …
Adrianne Tolsch, a Brooklyn native who influenced the New York City comedy scene in the 1970s as the first female MC at Catch A Rising Star and later the club’s booker and manager for years, has died from esophageal cancer. Tolsch was 78. Her husband, longtime David Letterman writer Bill …
No secret I’ve been a fan and friendly with Reggie Watts since the beginning of The Comic’s Comic. His first hour for Netflix, Spatial, came out this week, and here’s an excerpt from my review: As clear as the all-caps words on Watts’s T-shirt – CHAOTIC GOOD – the comedian/musician’s …
Nina Conti has performed in New York City before, “way back years ago” in Greenwich Village, then about five years ago at the 59E59 Theatres. But when Conti returns next week for a limited run, she’ll be making her proper debut off Broadway. “This is probably my biggest deal I’ve …
