The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For Tape Face‘s first performance as one of the final 36 contestants on the live editions of America’s Got Talent 2016, the British mime managed to convince both judge Heidi Klum and host Nick Cannon to join him onstage within a four-minute performance that included two main gags. Both tied …
The 2016 season of America’s Got Talent began its live show elimination competitions on Tuesday night, and two of the three remaining comedy acts among the final 36 performed tonight. Lori Mae Hernandez, all of 13, came out of the gates, and after acknowledging she was on the stage in …
MADtv returns with a new cast and new episodes on a new network in a new timeslot — primetime on Tuesday nights — starting tonight on The CW. The show tapes on Fridays, so they’ve already released a couple of sketches from tonight’s premiere. Each week, former cast members from …
Matthew Broussard has such good hair, he looks like the bad guy in a 1980s movie. “I get it. I’ve seen mirrors.” So Broussard joked on Monday’s Conan that he had joined a support group for people who peaked in high school. Roll the clip.
Jared Logan says living in the South is far cuter than living in New York City. It’s literally the difference between a bunny rabbit hopping across your street, and rats everywhere. Then again, you should see what Logan sees when he and his wife try eating vegan. Or try to …
The first night of the 2016 Democratic National Convention witnessed inspirational speeches from First Lady Michelle Obama, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts, and presidential candidate and independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders from Vermont. But first! U.S. Sen. Al Franken, a longtime former writer/performer for Saturday Night Live, and comedian …
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 …
Of all of the lists websites post regarding comedians, this is the one list that actually matters most to up-and-coming stand-ups, improvisers and sketch comedians. It’s Montreal’s Just For Laughs New Faces! This year, most of the New Faces will perform in a new venue for JFL — moved out …
Of all of the characters in Mike Birbiglia’s wonderfully true and funny film, Don’t Think Twice, Chris Gethard’s runs closest to his own. Gethard began taking improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade when he was only 20, and quickly became a darling of the UCB community, eventually starting a …
Over the weekend at Comic-Con in San Diego, the cast of the new edition of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and creator Joel Hodgson announced that their 14-episode revival — funded via a massive $5.7 million Kickstarter campaign — will debut on Netflix in the “not-too-distant-future.” The new cast includes host …
