The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In his second time hosting Saturday Night Live, Drake went meta for his monologue, not only acknowledging how much of his work inspires memes, but also giving meme-makers more to work with thanks to a brief impersonation of memes as he delivered a rap on memes. Roll the meme!
Michael Ian Black opens his new stand-up special, Noted Expert (his third hour, and first for EPIX), by noting that you can tell it’s going to actually be special, then suggests kicking things off right with a montage of puppies licking his face. Almost on cue, things don’t go well. …
It’s Friday the 13th on your calendar, which marked a dark day for several network TV series awaiting their fates for renewal or cancellation. But even for those sitcoms fortunate enough to earn a second season — or those pilots looking for their initial season orders by ABC, CBS, FOX, …
He was the first comedian ever to perform at Just For Laughs and mentored a teen-age Jim Carrey into stardom. He was Wayne Flemming. Friend to many comedians in Toronto and across Canada. Flemming died earlier this week from lung disease. Flemming’s promotional materials described himself as “the Canadian father of …
The endoscopy clinic in New York City’s Upper East Side where Joan Rivers died after a routine surgery went bad has settled a malpractice lawsuit brought by the legendary comedian’s daughter. In a statement, Melissa Rivers: The lawsuit concerning my mother’s death has been settled. In accepting this settlement, I am …
Matt Donaher is back on Conan, but this time, he and his girlfriend are going to have a baby. Pretty exciting! Narrowing down the name can be trying, too. But if you think he’s his worst critic, then you haven’t heard the heckles he receives from his therapist. Or from …
We all have family members offering us jokes or advice on jokes, and Joe Pera is here to share some of his relative humor with us. How many jokes does he have in his back pockets? We all found out at least a few when Pera performed on Thursday night’s …
To mark yesterday’s world premiere of Woody Allen’s latest movie, Cafe Society, at the Cannes Film Festival, French comedic actor Laurent Lafitte jokingly compared Allen to another director, Roman Polanski. “You’ve shot so many of your films here in Europe, and yet in the U.S., you haven’t even been convicted …
This is a banner week for Michael Ian Black. Black has a new children’s book that he promoted on Late Night with Seth Meyers (you can pre-order A Child’s First Book of Trump now), his latest stand-up special, Noted Expert, premieres this Friday night on EPIX, and he’s been announced as host …
Gad Elmaleh is still learning how to deliver comedy in English, as he explained in his American TV debut doing such on Wednesday’s Conan. The French Moroccan star is touring America, and he jokes about visiting the Statue of Liberty and trying to rent an apartment in New York City. …
