The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
FX had announced last year that it was moving its successful animated comedy, Archer, to FXX in 2016 for its seventh season and pairing it with a new animated series, Cassius and Clay, co-created by Megan Ganz and Archer creator Adam Reed. But Archer‘s FXX premiere remains without a start …
ThinkFactory Media, the company that showed us the “reality” TV of Tony Danza teaching, Sinbad’s family life, and Gene Simmons kissing his Family Jewels, now wants to bring a popular comedy game show from Finland to the United States, with Larry the Cable Guy hosting the American adaptation of Hide …
Just as new words surfaced from Jerry Lewis reasserting his claim that nobody will ever see his infamous still-unreleased Holocaust film from 1972, a Jewish comedian from Britain has revealed startling new images and interviews with Lewis in a new documentary that aired on BBC, “The Story of The Day …
Jamie Lee‘s starting her 2016 off right, hosting a new show called 10 Things that debuts tonight on truTV, and performing stand-up Monday night on The Late Late Show with James Corden. For one thing, Lee wants us all to know she’s not just a “basic bitch” because she has …
“50 Comics. One Mega Show. 1st New Joke of the New Year!” That’s the tagline for 50 First Jokes, which celebrated its 10th annual edition in New York City on Saturday, January 2, 2016, at The Bell House in Brooklyn. But when comedians John F. O’Donnell, Claudia Cogan and Jiwon …
The things you clicked on more than anything else I posted in 2015. Without further ado… 1. Yearbook photos for Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc (as depicted in junior high and high school in Newton, Mass., where they were classmates!), which make any day a great TBT and a chance …
Let us take one more look back at the comedians we still love and miss so dearly, who left us in the past year. Jason R. Chin (died Jan. 8, 2015), 46 Taylor Negron (died Jan. 10), 57 Harris Wittels (died Feb. 19), 30 Jenna McMahon (died March 2), 89 …
Mike Epps is the life of the party this Friday, the Next Friday, the Friday After Next, and so on and so forth. You get it. But does that make his stand-up worth watching? Well, that’s a different question and answer than wondering, is Mike Epps funny? Yes and no. …
New York Times critic Jason Zinoman joined me for a special year in review of 2015. Instead of just glossing over the headlines like most year-end retrospectives, Jason and I debated what it means to be the comedian of the year and who deserves to be considered in that discussion …
