The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s the end of 2022, which means it’s time once again for my annual year-end check-in with Jason Zinoman, critic at-large for The New York Times. Jason and I talk about the top trends we saw in comedy this year, the best up-and-comers in stand-up, the craziest ways comedy intersected …
Brandon Montrell, better known as the comedian Boogie B., died tragically Friday in a shooting outside of a New Orleans supermarket. Montrell was 43. Montrell was home for the holidays and not the intended victim in the shooting, according to New Orleans police. Anyone with information or can locate these …
Mike Bridenstine is based in Los Angeles, was raised in Iowa, but it was his time in between in Chicago that helped form him and his friendships as a comedian. Bridenstine has written a book about the rise of the alt-comedy scene in Chicago in the early 2000s, which included …
My weekly update on all the comedy news you need to know, now up on my Substack!
Noah Gregoropoulos, a celebrated teacher of improv comedians from Chicago, has died from cancer. He was 63. A graduate of Northwestern University, Gregoropoulous taught comedians and comedic actors at improvOlympic (iO) since the early 1990s, and fully took over when Del Close died in 1999. Which meant he helped shape …
Mike Feeney made his late-night TV debut on Friday’s Tonight Show, and joked about what he has learned over seven years of marriage. And then some! He’s still getting over the conversations people have with you as a dog owner, tho.
Kenice Mobley is a comedian from North Carolina, now based in Brooklyn, NY, whose star has been on the rise since the start of the pandemic. Mobley landed on Vulture’s Comedians You Should and WiIll Know list in 2021, made her late-night debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, …
Comedy news of the week, including Trevor Noah’s final TDS, the final month for Carolines on Broadway, and more. All for subscribers of my Substack, Piffany!
Mary Mack joked about growing up in northern Wisconsin, where they might not have had Spring Break as far as she recalled, but they offered plenty of life lessons.
Jordan Jensen made her late-night TV debut on Wednesday’s Late Late Show and shared her most NYC experience yet, and what it’s like to be “raised by a pack of lesbians.”
