The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Lori Mae Hernandez told the America’s Got Talent judges that she had been doing stand-up comedy for three years prior to her audition on Tuesday night’s episode. Of course, Lori Mae still is only 13. So she doesn’t have much life experience to draw upon for her comedy. But she …
We’ve just received word that Comedy Central’s planned Roast Battle special actually will be broadcast as a weeklong TV showcase competition! Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle will air over four consecutive nights at the end of July from Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. Ross and referee/comedian Brian Moses will lead …
Forget the pretty. Forget the good. This is great news. After a five-year hiatus, Larry David will return to his semi-autobiographical, semi-scripted life as “Larry David” on HBO for a ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Casey Bloys, HBO programming president, made the announcement today: “We’re thrilled that Larry has …
Remember how your parents and grandparents warned you growing up about how to protect yourself in the case of a mass shooting? No. They were more worried about global thermonuclear war killing us all, than they were of a single madman shooting up a church, a movie theater or a …
Daniel Sloss returned to Conan again — and on Monday night’s show, Sloss wondered how Brits can get condoms for free, but if a woman wants a tampon, she has to pay for it, and then gets taxed upon it as a “luxury item.” And you thought your health-care system …
Adrienne Truscott won multiple awards when she took her one-woman show about rape jokes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including honors for “Comic Originality” and the prestigious Panel Prize. That was August 2013. Some three years later, the summer of 2016 finds Truscott doing “Adrienne Truscott’s Asking For It: A One-Lady …
The Kennedy Center announced today that it’ll award Bill Murray the 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Said Murray in a statement: “I believe Mark Twain has rolled over in his grave so much for so long, that this news won’t disturb his peace.” And from Kennedy Center President Deborah …
Lin-Manuel Miranda and his improvised comedy hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme have scaled even greater heights on Broadway, first with Miranda’s semi-autobiographical In The Heights, and now with the transcendent musical Hamilton. Miranda’s co-conspirator in creating Freestyle Love Supreme, Thomas Kail, directs Hamilton. And Christopher Jackson (C-Jack in FLS) plays …
Judd Apatow and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder were equally full of surprises this weekend at the Bonnaroo music and comedy festival in Tennessee. Apatow introduced Vedder as the surprise guest on his comedy showcase, and then informed the audience that Vedder had written a song in tribute to Apatow’s …
Matt Balaker is writing a book about Greg Giraldo; scratch that, he’s writing THE book on Greg Giraldo, as there hasn’t been a proper biography about the outrageously witty stand-up comedian since he died in 2010 at the age of only 44. Balaker, a comedian himself, has interviewed more than …
