The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You don’t have to be high or a cartoon obscenity nerd to appreciate The Grawlix. But you did have to be a mile high to get to Denver to join the group, which in the early 2000s helped build a good comedy town into a vibrant comedy scene. Adam Cayton-Holland, …
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 …
Back in my day, you knew you made it when you could go on TV and say “Hi Mom!” to the camera. Now the kids have the social media and can make their own Instagrams or Vines to shout out their parents. But Megan Gailey took the concept a step …
A great long read for your #tbt needs today via David Peisner for Buzzfeed, talking to the surviving comedians who have lived in Cresthill, the so-named home that sits above The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, overlooking the Sunset Strip. Here’s the primer nutgraf action for you: In 1976, when …
So much Back To The Future chatter yesterday online, offline and across all of the timelines. And yet. This appearance and performance by Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in character as Marty McFly and Doc Brown, driving onto the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live and the live studio audience …
“Oh, Hello.” “Gil Faizon & George St Geegland are doing a live show in NYC in Dec.” So says Nick Kroll today, who with longtime comedy partner John Mulaney are mounting an off-Broadway run of their elderly characters from the Upper West Side, making the trek down to the West …
I first caught up Hasan Minhaj in 2012 on the set of the MTV show he was hosting called Failosophy. Hasan only has succeeded since then, and on a global scale, too. Literally. He hosted a documentary special ‘Stand Up Planet’ for PBS produced by The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and …
A few years ago, YouTube invested $200 million in boosting the profiles and content of 100 of its already higher-profile channels. This time around, YouTube is going to try to beat the other streaming giants by joining them. YouTube announced YouTube Red today, a new membership service providing ad-free videos, webseries and …
For all of the talk about Amy Schumer this year, it’s worth noting that Schumer joked throughout this summer’s Oddball Festival about how little money she made off of her own blockbuster hit movie, Trainwreck. And truth be told, Schumer — nor any woman — are to be found on …
Yahoo!’s chief executives told investors and media Tuesday on a conference call that their $42 million investment on original comedy series to build up Yahoo! Screen did not yield much of any financial return. Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer had made a big play for Yahoo! Screen in 2013 by negotiating …
