The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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. …
Hey, it’s Liam McEneaney! Liam is a Queens native who turned his weekly comedy showcase in a Lower East Side bar basement into a concert film, Tell Your Friends!, that premiered at SXSW and also played at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival and Comic-Con. His own credits include VH1’s Best Week Ever, Comedy …
MTV will premiere a brand-new 30-minute hidden camera prank show Ladylike, on Thursday, June 9, 2016. How will this prank show differ from the others? Ladylike takes Girl Code out of the studio and into the streets. Led by Nicole Byer (currently seen on FOX’s sketch series Party Over Here, …
“A place for his stuff.” That’s how Kelly Carlin shared the news last night with friends. Carlin shared a lot more at a public event last night at the Paley Center for Media in New York City, where the National Comedy Center convened a special panel of all-star comedians to …
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 …
