The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Chris Rock hosted the Academy Awards once in 2005. How about a second time, this time in 2016? What do you say, Chris? Look who's back. #Oscars. pic.twitter.com/7TkkrDpSJM — Chris Rock (@chrisrock) October 21, 2015 Here was Oscars monologue from 2005. Roll the clip! And here is the official press release… …
Moroccan-born Gad Elmaleh is France’s most famous and loved comedian, but only this past month has he begun performing English-language stand-up shows in America, appropriately titled, “All In English.” Elmaleh will follow up his recent 10-night stint at Joe’s Pub in New York City with another residency from Jan. 21 …
Baskets, the new FX comedy debuting in 2016 and starring Zach Galifianakis as a clown, released this new clip showing that “Baskets” wasn’t his first choice for a clown name. But there’s no crying in baseball, and no “Renoir” in this clown outfit. At least that’s my impression. What’s yours? …
“A dream come true. Thank you Comedy Central.” That’s Veep‘s Sam Richardson today, as Comedy Central announced it had ordered 10 episodes of Detroiters, a series he co-created with his former Second City cohort and fellow Detroit native Tim Robinson. Robinson, a former SNL cast member and writer, will star in …
Tracy Morgan just announced the next phase in his comedy comeback: A four-month stand-up comedy tour that kicks off in February 2016, with “MORE DATES COMING SOON…” As Morgan told his fans this morning on Twitter: “Heading back out on the road to bring the funny. Come see me: https://www.tracymorgan.com/tour/ …
Sam Simon wanted to be known as much for his charitable contributions to society as for his comedic contributions, and half a year after his death, hundreds of his artistic works and memorabilia are up for auction at Sotheby’s. As the auction house noted this summer: “Over a series of …
Jim Gaffigan is enjoying a stellar year: Performed for an audience awaiting Pope Francis, will perform at Madison Square Garden, too, and in between he and his wife successfully launched a TV Land series, The Jim Gaffigan Show, that’s coming back for season two in 2016. But as Gaffigan tells …
It takes four hours for Tony Gardner and his makeup team at Alterian Inc. to disguise actor David Krumholtz as 76-year-old grandmother Gigi for the IFC series, Gigi Does It, but thankfully, this time-lapse video lets us witness the transformation in only a minute. Roll the clip! Gigi Does It …
It may feel like 2015 is Amy Schumer’s year, and we’re all just living in it. But Schumer is living in it, too. It’s been such a whirlwind for her, you could set it to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” (and mash it up with a dash of …
Dave Chappelle, Whitney Cummings, Kathy Griffin, Arsenio Hall, Sam Moore, Kevin Nealon, Trevor Noah, Jay Pharoah, Joe Piscopo, Chris Rock, JB Smoove and plenty of other comedians turned out last night to salute Eddie Murphy at the 18th Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The Associated Press already …
