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For all of the talk about cast changes, stunt casting and the word that Saturday Night Live would have fewer ad time this year, the 42nd season premiere felt a bit underwhelming, didn’t it? That’s not to take anything away from the three new cast members. Mikey Day (promoted from …
For a time, Sebastian Maniscalco went by just his first name. Not his best look, really. Sebastian doesn’t make you think stand-up comedy. Magician, maybe. Hairstylist? Model? Despite your ability to compliment him on his looks or his stage presence, he’s a Maniscalco by name and by heritage, and in …
Nikki Glaser doesn’t yet have “baby fever,” as she joked on Friday’s Tonight Show, although the host of Comedy Central’s “Not Safe” is about to become an aunt. Glaser wondered what she should do when her boyfriend gives her the “silent treatment,” and whether allowing other people into their relationship …
If you’re in or near Hollywood on Saturday (Oct. 1, 2016), then you can take advantage of a great yard sale that Jimmy Kimmel Live is throwing that includes pieces from the sets when the ABC late-night show went on the road to Austin, Texas, for SXSW, and more. You …
Here’s a Funny or Die video about Career Suicide, which allows me to type two dichotomies at once! Judd Apatow lampoons his own problems in relations to those of Chris Gethard, which allows them to stumble into the inspiration to take Gethard’s gripping one-man show, “Career Suicide,” to a theater …
Funny or Die has assembled a star collection of stand-up comedians to barnstorm up and down California over the next month to encourage residents to register to vote in time for Election Day 2016. It’s called Jokes For Votes, and the tour, which kicked off Thursday night, includes a rotating lineup …
Roast Battle isn’t just for The Comedy Store or for Comedy Central. For the past year, the Jeff Ross-approved offshoot in New York City called RoastMasters has taken place regularly at The Stand in Gramercy (there’s also a regular Roast Battle at nearby New York Comedy Club helmed by co-founder …
Anjelah Johnson’s newest stand-up comedy album, Not Fancy, will go on sale wherever you buy albums online on Oct. 7, 2016, and then two weeks later as a physical CD. Johnson filmed the special in Anaheim (and you can see it still exclusively on Netflix), where she joked about learning Spanish, …
Naomi Ekperigin is at a crossroads, ladies and gentlemen. And not because she writes for Broad City. As Ekperigin explained in her stand-up set on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, her real issue lies with her nutrition. If only her TV watching could help her crack the case on …
This just in! Saturday Night Live is hyping the 42nd season premiere this Saturday with a video of its own “Trump vs. Hillary” debate, featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, and SNL’s own Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton. Trump previously had been portrayed by both Darrell Hammond and Taran Killam. …
