The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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. …
Mike Recine returned to Conan on Tuesday’s episode, joking about guys who try to order food in Spanish without knowing how to speak Spanish, guys who listen to talking dogs, and wondering whether there really is such a thing as the “worst pedophile.” Roll the clip!
Amazon has picked up all three of its primetime comedy pilots that went up for public review in August: The Tick, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson. That despite Amazon’s own programming chief describing his new half-hour pick-ups as only “sometimes even funny.” Such is the state of “comedy” …
Emma Willmann scored a great slot for her TV debut as a stand-up comedian, performing on a special live edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert following the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Willmann made fun of her name, which if she says it too …
Tony Hendra began his career at Cambridge University with the famed Footlights as the comedy partner of Graham Chapman, and starred in the annual revue with Chapman and John Cleese. He came to the United States as a duo act with Nick Ullett, appearing multiple times on The Ed Sullivan Show …
It’s a great day and late-night for Iliza Shlesinger today. The former Last Comic Standing winner’s third Netflix stand-up special, Confirmed Kills, debuted in the morning, and by afternoon, the cable channel Freeform (formerly ABC Family) announced it’d try to develop a late-night TV show for her. “A late-night show …
