The Definitive Guide to Comedy
First Cuba, then Comic-Con, now Armenia? Conan O’Brien has taken his show on the road this week — along with his longtime assistant, Sona Movsesian — to Armenia to film a special hour of Conan that’ll air Nov. 10, 2015, on TBS. Movsesian’s family immigrated from Armenia. It’s the first visit …
The Tenderloins — aka Sal, Joe, Murr and Q whom you love to watch torture each other on Impractical Jokers — are celebrating the renewal by truTV for a 26-episode fifth season by inviting a ton of comedy friends to join them on a cruise with fans in January 2016. “Even …
“The best comedy show of the year was obviously gonna be Moshe Kasher and Natasha Leggero‘s wedding.” So sayeth Mo Mandel, who took the photo. So sayeth us all. Congratulations and Mazel Tov to the funny happy couple! Moshe & Natasha <3 A photo posted by Lily Rose (@astral_quilting) on …
Here’s your first look at W/ Bob & David, the new sketch comedy series reuniting Mr. Show‘s Bob Odenkirk and David Cross and their writers, co-stars and friends in this limited-edition lineup for Netflix! The four half-hour episodes and one-hour “making of” special hit Netflix on Nov. 13, 2015. On …
Amy Schumer’s first monologue as host of Saturday Night Live (because Lorne Michaels and company surely will invite her back again) provided not only a flurry of furiously funny punchlines, but also a hilarious Easter egg for the nerdiest fans of SNL trivia. Can you find it among these chestnuts? To …
Andy Kaufman never got to see Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, but if he had, perhaps the late great performer would have served up a tribute similar to what Brett Davis produced on Sunday night, when Davis won the 11th annual Andy Kaufman Award. Davis actually employed some of his …
Hollywood isn’t the only place that recycles good ideas and is up for a reboot. Now it’s Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta that’s taking a good hard second look at Super Deluxe, the website that launched dozens of great funny webseries and one-offs in 2007 and 2008. Turner folded Super Deluxe …
Dean Obeidallah and Negin Farsad successfully challenged a ban by New York City’s MTA sought to prevent them from promoting their satirical movie, The Muslims Are Coming!, with posters within the city’s subway system. “Negin Farsad and I won our lawsuit versus NYC’s MTA today regarding our funny, positive posters …
Gary Vider made it to the finals this summer of America’s Got Talent on NBC, and certainly made the most of it — not only by telling funny stand-up routines that earned him kudos from the judges and audiences, but also by using his time and the AGT budget to …
Vanity Fair profiles some of the legion of stand-up comedians who work the trenches largely behind the scenes of sitcoms and talk shows in “Warm-Up Comics: The Funniest People in TV Who Are Never on TV.” Seth Herzog, pictured above in the Wonder Woman costume he has managed to work …
