The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy fans may have noticed the latest Katt Williams skirmish with civilians and news headlines, which culminated with Williams daring to call out Kevin Hart in some sort of million-dollar joke-off, or something. Then he called it off. But Jay Pharoah found it the perfect excuse to imagine a black …
Neal Brennan knows it’s odd to give John Legend top billing as the presenting executive producer of his new show, 3 Mics, which officially opened its Off-Broadway run Thursday night at the Lynn Redgrave Theater (45 Bleecker). Brennan could poke fun at Legend with a zinger. He could tell a funny anecdote …
Where does Conan O’Brien fit into the current late-night TV landscape? Does he even fit in? O’Brien certainly is the longest-serving late-night host in American television, presiding over talk shows on NBC and now TBS since 1993, and The Washington Post‘s Emily Yahr checks in on Conan and Team Coco …
For several years now, comedian Jon Daly has made the most out of anyone who may confuse him with professional golfer John Daly, even dressing up like the golfer for photo shoots to further the confusion in Google image searches. Last year, Adult Swim announced it’d join in the fun …
Nato Green is perhaps the most activist comedian I know. And I know more than a few comedian activists. Green lives and breathes San Francisco, not only as a comedian, but also as a union organizer, husband, father of twin daughters, columnist for the San Francisco Examiner, and host of …
Welcome to the Robin Williams Tunnel. The late great comedian and actor’s name now adorns the rainbow-lined Highway 101 tunnel connecting San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge to Marin County. Signs went up earlier this week, $3,000 each paid for through private donations, according to reports Caltrans told SFGate. Julie Wainwright, …
Watching Mike Birbiglia‘s new off-Broadway show in the afternoon of the Academy Awards proved even more fitting than I could have anticipated. Thematically, the narrative thru-line connects most of his jokes in Thank God For Jokes to the night he hosted the Gotham Awards for independent film in New York City in 2012. …
By most outward measurements, Chris Gethard‘s comedy career is great. A longtime favorite of both performers and audiences alike at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York City, Gethard has taken his everything-and-everyone-is-welcome notion of a talk show from the UCB’s basement theater to Manhattan public-access TV to Fusion, where …
In this week’s episode of Portlandia (season 6, episode 7), Fred and Carrie buy tickets to a Louis CK show in Portland, only to have CK cancel last-minute. Things take a turn when they run into him the next day, still in Portland, and force their way into one of …
If online dating seems weird or crazy to you now, just imagine what dating used to be like. Carmen Lynch reminds us in a very real and practical way in her stand-up set she performed Tuesday on Conan. Which lessons do you think informed her own dating life more, those …
