The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Happy Birthday, Dave Chappelle! Chappelle turns 43 today, and surprise surprise, a bunch of dates this coming week just went on sale minutes ago to see Chappelle perform stand-up in New York City. Shows for Aug. 29-30 and Sept. 1 at the Gramercy Theatre reportedly all sold out within seconds! …
America’s Got Talent returned to NBC following the two-week break for the Summer Olympics, with the final live quarterfinal performances — which included stand-up comedian Julia Scotti. Scotti joked about how she’s getting older, her prospects for finding a man are not only getting less optimistic, but also getting more …
The fourth annual Oddball Comedy & Curiousity Festival should have kicked off this Thursday, but the all-star outdoor stand-up comedy tour from Funny or Die and Live Nation has cancelled the first four dates, as well as four more in September. Oddball 2016 has scaled back from 21 tour stops …
“Our movie is good. We don’t need this.” That’s the message behind this humorous inception-level meta exercise in publicity, as Mike Birbiglia and the cast of his wonderful new movie, Don’t Think Twice, battle their own personal demons, the virus of “viral videos” that prompts them to lash out at …
The Jim Gaffigan Show is no more. Long live The Jim Gaffigan Show! After a two-episode finale on Sunday night, Jim and Jeannine Gaffigan broke the news to fans last night on Twitter that they’d decided not to pursue a third season of their semi-autobiographical sitcom on TV Land. Jim …
Noah Gardenswartz‘s biggest week ever kicked off Monday night with an appearance on Conan, where the comedian joked about a subway poet, moving in with his girlfriend, and trying acid for the first time. Gardenswartz has his debut stand-up comedy album coming out this weekend, coinciding with the premiere of …
Enough people have compared the state of our 2016 presidential campaign with the 2006 film Idiocracy that its filmmakers decided to write some new copy for future “President Camacho,” but all of your advance spin on it scared off both the actor who’d star in the videos and the studio …
Ms. Pat’s early career sounds a little bit like the role Sally Field’s in the 1988 movie about comedy, Punchline, except only Ms. Pat grew up in a bootleg house in Atlanta, became a mother of two by the time she was 15, sold drugs, was shot twice, and arrested …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
I bought Doug Stanhope’s new memoir, “Digging Up Mother,” because he told me I was in the book. He could have been drunk when he said that. No, wait. He definitely was, because he said so. Either way, imagine my delight and yours this week when Audible released an audiobook …
