The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Showtime at the Apollo, a live talent showcase at Harlem’s historic Apollo Theater which appeared on syndicated TV from the late 1980s through the 2000s, is coming back to television — this time in the form of two primetime network specials on FOX, hosted by Steve Harvey. Harvey previously served …
Goddamn! The Goddamn Comedy Jam special proved successful enough this summer for Comedy Central to order up eight more episodes for cable TV in 2017 — even if they’re dropping the profanity from the title, and just calling it The Comedy Jam from here on out. “We have been working …
The Larry Sanders Show, one of TV’s greatest meta-comedies, starred the late great Garry Shandling as a late-night talk show host and the craziness that inhabited his brain and his colleagues behind the scenes. It was what could’ve been had Shandling taken over The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson. Now …
SPY is back?!? The satirical magazine that reigned in print from 1986 to 1998 is back online for the final month before the 2016 elections, thanks to Esquire. As SPY‘s co-founder Kurt Andersen wrote today, people have asked over the years if SPY ever would make a comeback. With so …
Derek Waters is the co-creator and star of Drunk History, which has won both an Emmy and a Sundance Film Festival award and is now in its fourth season on Comedy Central after appearing on Funny or Die and HBO. A fifth season is forthcoming. But Drunk History wasn’t even …
Alingon Mitra performed on Friday’s Late Show and joked that he couldn’t quit drinking while this presidential election was still ongoing. As for the two leading choices, Mitra quipped: “Just because I hate diarrhea doesn’t mean I love constipation.” Mitra also joked about the dilemma of trying not to look …
I’m staying in a 1960s trailer in a backyard with free bicycle rentals, looking over a fence at an abandoned gas station converted into a food truck pod, and down the block sits In Other Words bookstore, with its front-window sign boasting it’s a safe space that will not condone …
Git R Done, indeed. Larry the Cable Guy was enjoying last Saturday’s University of Nebraska football game when a fan challenged him to arm-wrestle. The fan, an Army vet, and Larry wrestled using their left arms in a luxury suite at the stadium. And then the fan’s forearm snapped when …
Kyle Kinane is still loving life, even if he loves it so much it’s making him unhealthy. Perhaps when the aliens come, they will save us all. Or at least Kinane. This is his latest stand-up set on Conan. Roll the clip! Kinane has a new Comedy Central special, “Loose …
I’m in Portland, Ore., to cover the All Jane Comedy Festival, so that makes today’s first sneak peek at season seven of IFC’s Portlandia extra-keeping-it-weird, yes? In this sketch, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein wonder, “What About Men?” Roll the clip! Portlandia returns for season seven on IFC on Jan. …
