The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Congratulations to black-ish, Master of None, Transparent and UnReal, among the TV programs honored this year in the 75th annual edition of The Peabody Awards. The Peabody Awards, from University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, honor excellence in broadcasting. Other honorees for 2016 include the film Beasts of No Nation, and …
Saturday Night Live has mocked advertising and our relationship with it over 41 seasons. From the first season’s Bass-O-Matic, down through the years from Mom Jeans to Bad Idea Jeans, Schmitts Gay beer and Colon Blow cereal. But now, for every fake ad SNL may air after the guest host’s monologue …
As seen on HBO’s Girls, Ophira Eisenberg hosts The Moth‘s monthly Story Slam in New York City, as well as various Moth events around the United States. You also can hear her weekly on NPR as host of the trivia game show, Ask Me Another. Her memoir, Screw Everyone: Sleeping …
On TV last night, NBC broadcast a special tribute episode of Saturday Night Live for Prince — who died unexpectedly Thursday at 57 — including sketches of Fred Armisen impersonating Prince alongside Maya Rudolph as Beyonce. Over on HBO, Beyonce was dropping a surprise album of music videos. As for Rudolph, she was …
When Amy Schumer presents Rachel Feinstein tonight to Comedy Central, she really presents. Schumer not only gives Feinstein advice backstage in a pre-taped green room bit, but also walks onstage first, introducing her to the New York City crowd last November (I was at the taping) by saying of Feinstein: “This …
I don’t know if every stand-up comedian who performs on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has to have a direct personal connection to the host, but it certainly has started out that way. Sam Morril became the third stand-up to perform on Colbert’s Late Show since he took over …
On tonight’s season finale of Dr. Ken on ABC, Ken Jeong’s title character makes his stand-up debut at the Laugh Factory. In real life, Jeong made his TV debut on ABC’s The View, and this week he revisited the scene of the crime — where he won the show’s search …
My latest review for Decider is up, covering the new Patton Oswalt special, Talking For Clapping — his fifth hour of stand-up recorded on video and first exclusively for Netflix. Here’s an excerpt of my review: “If I want three Vicodin, I have to do the ‘Coffee is for closers’ …
You knew Joan Laurer as Chyna, the bodybuilder who broke through the gender lines of professional wrestling and became a superstar with the WWE when it was still known as the WWF in the late 1990s. Billed as “The Ninth Wonder of the World,” Chyna became the first and only …
Short-form comedy segments in late-night TV all are the rage now, as IFC becomes the third cable channel to jump into the field, announcing today that its Comedy Crib collection of more than two dozen webseries will begin airing on TV come Fall 2016. The weekly half-hour episodes of Comedy …
