The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When comedians Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian first met up to redefine the term mock debate during an October 2015 late-night comedy showcase at the UCB Theatre, few people really believed that Donald J. Trump and Bernie Sanders were more than passing fads. But as primary voters have made their …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
What’s so special about 11 p.m. Thursdays? Thursdays are the new Fridays, or Must-See TV has shifted from primetime to late-night in 2016, because both the History channel and truTV are jumping into the comedy fray with weekly ventures in the 11 p.m. hour (Eastern/Pacific) that include throwing all sorts …
Surprise, surprise, surprise! Beyoncé blew our minds when she released a full album in 2013 without advance warning, press or promotion. The release itself served as the hype machine. She did it again a day before performing at Super Bowl 50. Comedians have now began to embrace the concept, too. …
Before the third season of Broad City premieres tonight on Comedy Central, Estelle Caswell and Caroline Framke at Vox.com enjoyed looking back on past episodes and escapades of Abbi and Ilana, and discovering how the show has incorporated callbacks and Easter eggs for even more jokes their most discerning fans …
He may have lingered in the background on the Magic Mike movies, but Gabriel Iglesias gets center stage on this episode of SPIKE TV’s Lip Sync Battle versus Randy Couture. Here’s a snippet of “Fluffy” moving his lips and his body to that old Color Me Badd hit, “I Wanna …
SXSW 2016 is less than a month away, and Austin’s mega festival has announced today it’s offering a free download of Andy Ritchie’s lone stand-up comedy album, King Ding-A-Ling. Ritchie, who died last Thanksgiving from cancer at the age of 39, left his mark on the Austin comedy scene when …
This just in! The long-rumored or debated will-they-won’t-they reunion of Bret and Jemaine — aka New Zealand’s favorite musical duo, Flight of the Conchords — will happen this July at the 2016 Newport Folk Festival. Just click on the news button on the band’s site. Today’s item reads: “It’s true! …
The JASH YouTube channel has kept fairly quiet over the past six months, but its comedian members plan to remind you they’re live and breathing and still full of funny with a live and breathing and full of funny comedy and music festival. They’ve announced the first JASHFESHT Comedy Festival, happening April …
Kyle Cease first caught my attention in the 1990s when we both were getting started in the Seattle comedy scene. He already was headlining clubs as a teenager then, and parlayed his youthful exuberance and success into scene-stealing bit parts in movies such as 10 Things I Hate About You and …
