The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On Tuesday night’s Conan, comedian and Mike and Molly star Billy Gardell talked about the pizza place he opened with his brother, Brian, in Orlando. It’s called, fittingly enough, Gardell Bros Pizza. Billy told Conan O’Brien that the pizzeria is coming up on its one-year anniversary, and in hopes of …
Tape Face, aka The Boy With Tape On His Face, aka 38-year-old Sam Wills from New Zealand, rode his unique wave of prop comedy, mime and street performance all the way to the stage for the finale of America’s Got Talent 2016 on Tuesday night. To the sounds of “The …
There are two public sides to stand-up comedian Jeff Ross. There’s the “Roastmaster General” who takes on a different disguise each year for the Comedy Central roasts, turning the event into his own personal Halloween full of tricks and treats. For the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe that aired …
In case you missed it, Martin Lawrence is back in the stand-up game with his first special in 14 years since the 2002 concert film, Runteldat. Martin Lawrence: Doin’ Time: Uncut premiered over the weekend on Showtime. It looks like Lawrence is making up for lost time with this hour. …
You’ve seen Jeff Dye tell jokes on Last Comic Standing, try all sorts of tricks last summer on NBC’s I Can Do That, and this summer serving as an Asian tour guide companion for Henry Winkler, Terry Bradshaw, William Shatner and George Foreman on NBC’s Better Late Than Never. But none …
Saturday Night Live has confirmed that it’s adding Melissa Villaseñor and Alex Moffat to the cast as featured players for season 42. I told you over the weekend that they were both finalists for the gig, along with Chris Redd, who had The Lonely Island vouching for him after his breakout …
Gary Owen is the only white comic to host BET’s Comic View, and many years later, he’s bringing his whole family to the network in the reality series, The Gary Owen Show, debuting in October 2016. Not something you might have expected from a kid growing up in a trailer …
The Creative Arts division of the Emmys handed out awards over two nights this weekend. Amy Poehler and Tina Fey won the guest actress in a comedy category for hosting Saturday Night Live together, while Peter Scolari won guest actor in comedy for HBO’s Girls. For both Poehler and Scolari, …
What happens when comedians sit down with Lorne Michaels remains such an enigma shrouded in mystique that Marc Maron has made it a staple of his popular podcast. In fact, it’s one of the ultimate WTF moments in comedy. Does Lorne outright hire anyone for Saturday Night Live, or does …
Chris Redd would have and could still be the breakout star of Popstar, if you’d only see the movie. You probably will be much more likely to once you start seeing Redd on Saturday Night Live. Multiple sources confirmed to The Comic’s Comic that Redd emerged from last month’s auditions and …
