The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You’re likely familiar with the comedians who’ve released stand-up albums in recent years on AST Records: Jimmy Pardo, Karen Kilgariff, Max Silvestri, Sean O’Connor, Liam McEneaney and Dan St. Germain among them. But before comedy nerds took over the mainstream entertainment scene, a few hundred of them were touting their …
Maria Bamford is Stephen Colbert’s favorite comedian. Don’t take my word for it. Colbert said that himself when he invited Bamford onto The Late Show on Friday night to really kick off the show’s relationship with stand-up comedy and comedians. Bamford joked about being a newlywed and keeping the love …
Judd Apatow enjoyed a bit of fun at the expense of Matt Damon, The Martian and J.J. Abrams having a bit of fun at the expense of Apatow and comedians everywhere when he addressed the audience at the 2016 Critics Choice Awards. Apatow first pointed out the absurdity of the …
Max Silvestri is a comedian, writer and actor living in Los Angeles. But for seven years, Silvestri hosted one of the hottest indie comedy nights each Wednesday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn – co-hosting “Big Terrific” with Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate. While living in Brooklyn, Silvestri began recapping Top Chef and other …
In 2015, the Oxygen network brought us Funny Girls, a look at six women in stand-up comedy climbing the show-business ladder in Hollywood. In 2016, Oxygen will bring us Living with Funny, examining six men in comedy in Hollywood — as well as the women in their lives — premiering Tuesday, …
Miranda Sings is building upon her YouTube success with an eight-episode series on Netflix. Back off haters! Or rather, Haters Back Off. That’s the title for the show starring the character created by Colleen Ballinger-Evans, the 29-year-old who has attracted more than 5.78 million YouTube subscribers to date for the …
Today’s guest is David Feldman, who was born into show business and currently hosts another podcast with ShowBriz Studios, The David Feldman Show. But who is David Feldman? We dig deep into his life and career, from growing up watching his influential broadcasting father in New York City, to young …
Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show tenure will receive a second-anniversary primetime party on Valentine’s Day, followed by a week of shows broadcast from Universal Studios in Universal City above Los Angeles. NBC announced the celebration and L.A. visit for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon during the network’s turn Wednesday before …
Más Mejor, the new comedy channel by and for Latino comedians, has launched today. It comes from Broadway Video and puts two of that company’s famous Saturday Night Live alumni front and center: Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen. And here they are in their “first” unboxing video as Cuban toy collectors. …
The comedy boom of the 1970s in Los Angeles will explode again onscreen on Showtime in 2016 as the cable network announced today it’d ordered the adaptation of memoir I’m Dying Up Here to series. It films this fall in Los Angeles. The announcement came during Showtime’s turn at the …
