The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As he starts appearing for the fourth season as Eric Andre’s talk-show sidekick on Adult Swim, and makes select appearances on the fourth annual Oddball festival of outdoor amphitheaters for Funny or Die, Hannibal Buress also is launching a new solo stand-up comedy theater tour of his own. Tickets went …
Denis Leary’s first big comedy song celebrated how he’s an asshole. More than two decades later, Leary updated the song with a parody version targeting Donald Trump. Leary appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Wednesday night, dressed as Bill Clinton accompanied by Corden as Hillary Clinton …
Stand-up comedian Jeff Dye has done so much television over the past few years since competing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, I almost didn’t believe it when Jimmy Fallon introduced Dye on The Tonight Show as making his “late-night debut” on Wednesday night’s show. And yet. While you can see …
Seinfeld went off the air on NBC in May 1998 with 76 million viewers tuning in to see Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer get their just punishments for being horrible New Yorkers. In recent years, parody Twitter accounts such as Modern Seinfeld and Seinfeld Current Day have imagined the foursome …
Just a few days after throwing its annual bash in Montreal for the comedy industry gathered at Just For Laughs, Funny or Die announced today it’d lay off 37 jobs — 30 percent of its workforce — and close the office in San Mateo, Calif., where the comedy company’s engineers …
This just in: Louis CK is making an unscheduled extra stop on his stand-up tour in Minneapolis tonight. As Acme Comedy Co. told fans in an email this afternoon: “Louis CK heard about the recent struggles with the construction around Acme Comedy Co. and wanted to help out. He reached …
MADtv‘s revival happened quickly. Four months ago, The CW announced it’d reboot the old FOX late-night sketch comedy series from the 1990s and 2000s, with the original creators finding a new cast. Two months ago, they announced their new cast. Last week, they premiered in primetime! It’s more than a …
Lavell Crawford joked about his weight and his battle with “the sugar” over the course of finishing runner-up on Last Comic Standing, panels on Chelsea Lately and his own hour-long stand-up comedy specials, and shined playing Better Call Saul‘s bodyguard/assistant on Breaking Bad. But since filming a supporting role in …
Drew Hastings, the stand-up comedian with two decades of performing experience who’s serving his second four-year term as the mayor of Hillsboro, Ohio, will stand trial this fall on felony allegations including election falsification, theft, theft in office and tampering with records. Hastings entered not guilty pleas Monday at his arraignment …
NBC announced that Jimmy Fallon — not Ricky Gervais, nor the dynamic duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — would become the network’s next host of the Golden Globes. From the press release, which accompanied NBC’s turn at the summer TV Critics Association (TCA) press tour today: “We’re thrilled …
