The Definitive Guide to Comedy
NBCUniversal’s exclusive “Late Night Writers Workshop” happens over a week in April, and the TV conglomerate has released the names of the chosen few who’ll get an intensive look behind the scenes of late-night television. “We are excited and proud to announce the writers chosen for this year’s 2016 NBCUniversal …
Fluffy is breaking even on reality TV and breaking the time-space continuum in a new video game. Gabriel Iglesias is one of the main characters in Timenauts, a mobile game available on the App Store for iPhone and iPad and on Google Play for Android devices. Timenauts is a player vs. …
The shocking sudden death of Garry Shandling shook up the comedy community, with many comedians owing more than debts of gratitude to the 66-year-old. Conan O’Brien devoted much of his monologue and early program of Thursday’s Conan to talking about Shandling. A GQ profile of Shandling in 2010 opens with …
Garry Shandling, a great comedy writer who became a greater stand-up and begat two of the greatest most influential TV sitcoms, has died suddenly. Shandling was 66. The Los Angeles Police Department confirmed the sad news today. Shandling had just done some major interviews with other comedians at the start …
The Library of Congress picked George Carlin’s seminal 1972 comedy album, “Class Clown,” as one of its 25 annual selections to add to the National Recording Registry. Among the others: Santana’s 1970 album “Abraxas,” two blues numbers from the 1920s (Clarence Williams’ 1923 “Wild Cat Blues” and Blind Willie McTell’s 1928 …
Gabriel Iglesias wore a suit for his third stand-up performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. A suit! If you’ve seen Iglesias do stand-up, you’re used to Hawaiian shirts and jorts. Not this time. Fluffy cleans up nice, doesn’t he? He also joked about how fancy the NBC facilities …
Gad Elmaleh’s first all-in-English comedy show, “Oh My Gad,” continues its New York City residency this spring at Joe’s Pub (with another show tonight, in fact). But Elmaleh, a Moroccan French comedian/actor and the most popular stand-up in France, has made it his goal to break through with English-speaking American …
Comedy Central’s fake game show, @midnight, aired an unprecedented full-hour episode last night devoted to Trump vs. Bernie — aka comedians Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian — as host Chris Hardwick moderated a debate version of the show instead. Click here to watch the @midnight Trump vs. Bernie episode in …
Danny Lobell has been talking with comedians about their lives and everything else for longer than you may realize, first with his all-color glossy Comical Magazine, and then with Comical Radio in 2004, run out of the Baruch College radio station in New York City. Everyone came through, including the …
Are you wearing your suspenders and sweatpants? Then snap out of retirement and stop trying to ghost Josh Gondelman. Because that’s not what ghosting is. Gondelman explains in his TV debut on Wednesday’s Conan. Roll the clip! Gondelman’s first comedy album, “Physical Whisper,” is out now.
