The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kate Berlant’s 36-minute special for The Characters series on Netflix opens in a most remarkable way, as she barely appears onscreen in the first few minutes. Instead, one after another, real-life artists, actors and architects sing the praises of the performance artist “Denise St. Roy.” Casey Jane Ellison, Jemima Kirke, Tony …
FOX’s new entry into Saturday-night sketch comedy, the half-hour Party Over Here, debuts this weekend, and the first video teases let you know it’s a very theatrical effort. Nicole Byer, Jessica McKenna and Alison Rich come from theater backgrounds at UCB and elsewhere, and their TV sketches often play out …
It becomes painfully clear to everyone around John Early in his 35-minute special for The Characters series on Netflix that the comedian and actor has control issues, whether he’s constantly interrupting the woman he’s coaxing into telling her George W. Bush story, shushing everyone at his wedding rehearsal dinner, or …
Louis CK gave his first TV interview Wednesday night since releasing Horace and Pete as a TV series exclusively on his website, and explained it to Jimmy Kimmel this way: “It’s fun to do it yourself. Because you watch people react to it, and there isn’t some company making a decision. …
Grace Parra has broken out as a star contributor and panelist for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore since she joined the late-night Comedy Central talker in November 2015. But Parra thought she might just as well have enjoyed a career behind the scenes as a sitcom writer, or perhaps …
Not everyone cast on the History Channel’s new late-night comedy series, The Crossroads of History on Night Class, is as on the nose as the hilarious Josh Fadem portraying a bumbling young wannabe painter named Adolf Hitler. But just about every comedic actor stepping back in time for the TV …
A year and a half after she died, the late great Joan Rivers still has an estate and a NYC penthouse apartment, and hundreds of items from her estate will come up for auction this summer. Christies will host “The Private Collection of Joan Rivers” from June 16-23, 2016, with …
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “enjoying yourself?” Shane Torres has some thoughts on that, and they don’t typically revolve around a mall’s food court, but in this situation, they definitely did. Here’s more from Torres in his debut performance on Tuesday’s Conan. Roll the clip!
The most recent Republican presidential debate began on such an unpresidential note, that even though it happened on Thursday night, all of the late-night comedy shows still wanted to address it come Monday. Most made basic jokes. The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore saw the bigger picture, though. Dick jokes …
Steel Panther has had one of the best-selling comedy albums of the past two years with their 2014 album, “All You Can Eat,” and also topped the comedy charts with their first album, 2009’s “Feel The Steel” and 2011’s “Balls Out.” When they first started performing glam metal rock on …
