The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If Kevin Hart can earn $2 million just to type 140 characters into Twitter, then what could he pull in for writing 140 pages about himself? No terms disclosed, but 37 Ink — an imprint of Atria Publishing Group — announced Tuesday that it had acquired the rights to Hart’s …
When Fred Armisen isn’t remaking Portland into Portlandia with Carrie Brownstein for IFC (their sixth-season finale airs Thursday), he’s playing drums for Late Night with Seth Meyers. Or is he? As Armisen explains in this video for The New York Times T Mag, it’s easy to fake being a drummer. …
What a difference 10 months of retirement makes! TMZ snapped up the above photo of David Letterman — bald on top, bearded and flowing from the chin — jogging on March 22, 2016, on St. Bart’s. I like to think Letterman inherited “the Santa Clause” to become Santa Claus upon …
Showtime will roll the Dice with the first season of Andrew Dice Clay’s semi-autobiographical comedy series, streaming all six half-hours at once for on-demand viewing on April 10. It’s the first series to receive the binge-worthy release from Showtime, and at only six episodes, that’s a three-hour viewing session you can …
I caught up with Brent Blakeney at the Nashville Zanies Comedy Club where he was opening for Kathleen Madigan. He’s an up-and-coming comedian who tours part-time while maintaining a career both as a comic and a substitute teacher. He was cool enough to answer some questions about comedy and juggling …
Six years ago, director Jordan Brady turned the cameras back on his comedy career — interviewing dozens of stand-up comedians about the art of joking, and coaxing Ritch Shydner out of touring retirement for I Am Comic. Then Brady himself got back into stand-up, joining Wayne Federman for a weekend of …
What the world needs now is Joe Pera. Now more than ever. Thankfully, Adult Swim dedicated a quarter-hour early this morning to Pera and his musings for the latest episode in its Infomercials series (the same series that brought us Too Many Cooks). This is Joe Pera Talks You to …
Emily Galati on Monday’s Conan explained how birth control is far from a sin, but rather one of the few things that keeps her religious. Or several of the things. There are more similarities than you might think. Roll the clip!
When Ellen DeGeneres invited comedian Quincy Jones onto her daytime talk show last week to talk about his dying wish to record a stand-up special, DeGeneres made an appeal to TV networks to pick it up for broader distribution. “But what I want also, if someone from HBO is watching …
Jack Vaughn launched Comedy Central Records in 2002 thanks to his love of Mitch Hedberg and other unappreciated comedians of the time, and won four Best Comedy Album Grammys with them. A decade later, he moved to Hollywood and joined Comedy Dynamics and New Wave, where Vaughn executive produced and helped …
