The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Mikey Day passed his summer audition, receiving a promotion from writing staff to cast member for the upcoming 42nd season of Saturday Night Live after co-starring this summer on NBC’s new weekly variety series, Maya & Marty. Day, 36, has written for SNL since 2013, most frequently writing partners for …
A decade before Oh, Hello became a Broadway show that could fill a rehearsal space with TV crews awaiting their press conference in character as Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney were just two young Georgetown grads fooling around as Gil and George in the …
Just in time for the kickoff of football season, Kentucky Fried Chicken has found its newest spokesperson to play the late franchise founder, Col. Sanders. Rob Riggle debuted not only as Sanders, but also as “owner and head coach and marketing director” of the Kentucky Buckets, a fake football team. …
rother Taran Killam may not be coming back to Saturday Night Live for his seventh season this fall, but he did have a chance to document the clearing out of his dressing room, and cleared the air in doing so. Killam delivered a sincere message via Instagram a few days …
Comedy Central Records has packaged all of the recorded jokes from the late, great Mitch Hedberg into an old-school-meets-new-school box set coming out in time for your holiday gift needs. “Mitch Hedberg: The Complete Vinyl Collection” is available now for pre-order on Amazon and will be released Nov. 4th, 2016. …
Hot off a monthlong run of critically-acclaimed shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Chris Gethard will mount an Off-Broadway run for his one-man show, “Career Suicide,” presented by Judd Apatow. Chris Gethard: Career Suicide will play The Lynn Redgrave Theater (45 Bleecker St.), with previews starting Oct. 5, and an official opening …
Hosting duties are nothing new for Ben Gleib. He’s been doing that since he was a teenager, rubbing elbows with Hollywood stars and their children in Beverly Hills High School. Gleib’s college talk show became a national sensation thanks to The National Lampoon, eventually scoring him a TV pilot on …
“Welcome to The Late Show. I’m your host, Larry Wilmore.” Wait, what? CBS opened cold on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show with Wilmore subbing in for regular host Stephen Colbert, even getting in one monologue joke amid chants of “Larry” before Colbert interceded. “I’m sorry, man. I thought whoever …
Tape Face, aka The Boy with Tape on His Face, is scheduled to launch a European tour next week. But somewhere over the course of the summer, this comedian with the style, charm and antics of a street performer — who delivered the welcoming address to performers this August at …
There will not be a stand-up comedian in the finals of the 2016 season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Teenager Lori Mae Hernandez came up just short, so to speak, this week. Voted out after this week’s semifinal round, in which she joked about how another Laurie Hernandez became much …
