The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Anyone who came through Hyenas, and later Laffs, came to know and love “Hoodie.” Gary Hood, a comedy mentor and the booker at Laffs Comedy Caffe in Tucson, has died. He was 66. Born Aug. 18, 1949, Hood’s old comedy club bios for him say that he was a former …
Funny or Die has launched into the 3D world of 360-degree Virtual Reality with this first sketch, in which Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel play funny cop/funny cop and you play the suspect in an interrogation room. Roll the clip! But get your 3D glasses first for full effect!
Tom Papa returned to Conan on Thursday, and said if you really want to be scared about where the world is heading, just think about where all of the adults went. “Everybody’s a baby now.” Adult coloring books? Therapy dogs? Then again, Papa has two daughters, and realizes they’ve begun …
The hit Broadway musical Hamilton will hit peak cultural status this coming weekend with the Tony Awards, and New York City comedian Richie Moriarty pays tribute today with this video of him singing “Alexander Hamilton.” Only Moriarty does it via 14 different celebrity impersonations. Including Adam Sandler, JFK, Christopher Walken, Mickey Mouse, Beaker …
This just in! Now that Rob Lowe’s The Grinder sadly got disbarred from FOX’s primetime schedule, that leaves his summer schedule open for Comedy Central to roast him. But what if they didn’t? No, of course they will! You Grinder fans get it. But what if they didn’t? OK, now …
Kenny and Keith Lucas — aka The Lucas Brothers — visited Jimmy Fallon again on Wednesday night to perform on The Tonight Show. This time around, they wondered, if people imagine what life would be like if they were tall enough to play in the NBA, what would NBA players …
Comedy Central unveiled a new and improved website for the late, great sketch comedy series, Key & Peele. The site includes everything you saw (or didn’t see) on TV the first time around — including 176 sketches that hadn’t yet made the leap to online archives for sharing and caring. …
Kevin Bartini is a stand-up comedian and writer who audiences see first when they attend tapings of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central. Bartini also has warmed up TV audiences for The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, and sometimes now The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. He …
Canadian stand-up comedian D.J. Demers made his American TV debut a couple of years ago on Conan, and will be filming a one-hour comedy special later this month in Toronto. But Demers has higher aspirations down here in the United States. “I wear hearing aids. I’m from Canada. Two disabilities,” …
What is a Laughter Coach? Tita Begashaw, a 62-year-old from Seattle, is here to fill us in. She went by just her first name, Tita, when she approached the judges on Tuesday night’s second episode of auditions for America’s Got Talent 2016. Does laughter begat more laughter? Is laughter contagious? …
