The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s an odder sight on your TV screen: Demetri Martin selling you on life insurance, or the stand-up comedian and actor doing so while clipping hedges and gardening? Trick question! Roll the clip, which has showed up multiple times on your TV since mid-September. It’s Demetri Martin for New York …
If you want a Throwback Thursday, then you got a Dell, dude! But would you believe comedian Nick Thune has starred in Dell ads and TV commercials for at least the past year? Certainly you’ve been seeing Thune and more and more on your TV in the past week or …
As Election Day 2016 draws even nearer, Stephen Colbert wants to make sure his jokes are the most topical of all — so Colbert will broadcast live editions of The Late Show on CBS on both the night before and the night after the election, in addition to a live …
Need yet another unscientific way to break down how Americans feel, just a couple of weeks before the 2016 presidential election? New comedy streaming app Laugh.ly — which lets you stream your favorite stand-up comedians for free — has broken down who your favorite stand-up comedians to listen to are …
Forget your 15 minutes of fame, and now forget trying for six looping seconds of social media stardom. R.I.P. Vine. Twitter announced today it will discontinue Vine, the mobile app it acquired. The website will remain active, though, as will all of the six-second videos you’ve made for it. At …
Alamo Drafthouse, a 25-location chain of movie theaters based in Austin that prides itself on offering high-quality food with their movie offerings (and has expanded to include its own festival, Fantastic Fest, and entertainment website, Birth.Movies.Death), is celebrating the grand opening of its newest location in downtown Brooklyn this weekend …
Jon Glaser took his love for subverting reality TV tropes (as seen previously on Adult Swim’s Delocated), perhaps found some inspiration from the heightened ridiculousness of Comedy Central’s Review, and satires not only gadget gurus, outdoorsy types but also himself once more in the outlandishly funny new truTV series, Jon …
Almost four years ago, after appearing in the documentary, I Am Comic, comedian Ritch Shydner began walking back down Memory Lane through his life as a stand-up comedian during the comedy boom of the 1980s, sharing stories with his Facebook friends. In the beginning of 2013, Shydner even shared more …
Sporting the same “Nasty Woman” black T-shirt as Samantha Bee on Monday’s Full Frontal, Ana Gasteyer appeared on Monday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers under the pretense of putting on a Christmas musical special with Donald Trump. Because, sure, why not, all things are possible in 2016. So here is …
Orlando Baxter made his late-night stand-up debut on Monday’s Conan, and the Boston-based comedian joked about how this compares to his previous job as an in-suspension schoolteacher. Baxter took his one-man show to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer. How’s he doing in his new career? Let me put it …
