The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Woody Allen shared the Broadway stage with Elaine May — although not onstage together, technically — as writers in 2011 for “Relatively Speaking,” a collection of one-act plays. Allen did cast the legendary May back in 2000 for his movie, Small Time Crooks. And he’s turning back the clock once …
When Conan O’Brien traveled to Qatar with Joining Forces to perform for the American military stationed there, he not only came with First Lady Michelle Obama and Grace Potter, but also brought a few comedians. Among them: John Mulaney, and two of his Conan writers, Laurie Kilmartin and Brian Kiley. …
What originally was billed as a very special Kevin Nealon and friends night Tuesday at The Laugh Factory in Hollywood has morphed into two all-star benefit fundraisers for the 2016 presidential campaign of Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. ARTISTS FOR BERNIE quickly sold out its 8 p.m. show Tuesday and added …
First a Grammy Award, now this? Comedy Bang! Bang! indeed! IFC announced today that “Weird Al” Yankovic, the king of all musical satire and parody, reigning to this day as current holder of the Grammy Award of Comedy Album of the Year, has joined Scott Aukerman as the bandleader and …
Seth Herzog is what Malcolm Gladwell would call a Connector. The Zog seemingly knows everyone in comedy and show business who lives and works in New York at any given moment, and on any given Tuesday, you might see one of his famous friends onstage or playing sidekick to Zog …
The 2016 presidential election still hasn’t recorded a single primary or caucus vote yet, but the campaigns already have been so chock full o’ nuts that the Saturday Night Live all-stars keep getting called back in for active duty. We’ve seen Larry David as Bernie Sanders, Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton …
There’s a moment in the beginning of I’m Your Girlfriend, the new hour stand-up special from Whitney Cummings (and her first for HBO), in which she stops to examine the audience members in the front row for her taping. “I’m shooting my HBO special. No big deal. This has been …
Check out the nervous energy Marques Ray brings to his first performance on Conan on Thursday night, which feeds into giggles from the audience for his jokes, crowd work, characters and celebrity impersonations. That Johnny Depp, in particular, man. It makes for the fun kind of showcase set that you …
Congrats to Pete Holmes, whose semi-autobiographical HBO comedy pilot, Crashing, just got picked up for a full series order! Holmes and Judd Apatow are executive producing on the series, with Apatow directing the pilot, which finds Holmes as a younger version of himself, fresh off a divorce and still new …
Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer host the popular weekly comedy showcase Crash Test at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles, and for one epic night, they took Crash Test on the road – hosting the show from a tour bus along the streets of Hollywood. Their Crash Test: With Rob …
