The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart closed out its 16-year run on Comedy Central with two more big Emmy Award wins on Sunday night, earning the prizes for both writing in a variety series as well as the newly split category for outstanding variety talk series. Of course, most of …
If NBC can attract 6.41 million viewers to Jeff Dunham at 8 p.m. Thursday against the kickoff of Thursday Night Football on CBS, then will the network order up more specials from Dunham? The ventriloquist’s then-record ratings on Comedy Central years ago resulted in multiple specials there. If Dunham is …
I accept Steve Rannazzisi’s apology. Even if he hasn’t yet apologized to me personally. Even if, by the time he last spoke to me in 2013, he’d begun choosing his words a little more carefully when lying about where he was on Sept. 11, 2001. That he’s coming forward now …
It’s no secret that Nate Bargatze is one of Jimmy Fallon’s favorite stand-up comedians right now, as Bargatze made his third appearance on the show Friday in the year-and-a-half since Fallon took over The Tonight Show. For this set, Bargatze had fun with the idea of trying to buy a …
At the beginning of 2015, Amy Schumer made no secret of her dislike of Comix at Foxwoods when she guested on Brian Koppleman’s “The Moment” podcast. Were the folks at Comix and rival resort casino Mohegan Sun listening? They announced a new partnership today that’ll find Comix cashing in its …
Donald Trump impersonations are a dime a dozen, although, obviously any Trump impersonator or The Donald himself would tell you that’s worth billions of dimes. But what about Bernie Sanders? The independent U.S. Senator from Vermont who’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 has seen his campaign gather …
Last year’s winner of New York’s Funniest Stand-Up, Ricky Velez, was hired this year as a correspondent for Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. What’s in store for the 2015 winner of New York’s Funniest Stand-Up? And could it be you? Carolines on Broadway (1626 Broadway between 49th …
Free hotel continental breakfasts are for everybody, but reading books to children is for nobody but you? I don’t want to give away all of Andrew Sleighter‘s trade secrets. So I’ll let you decide for yourself how much you want to know and when you want to know it, but …
Carol Burnett visited Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday night and recalled the times that Lucille Ball guested on Burnett’s hit sketch comedy series, The Carol Burnett Show. From one red-headed comedy icon running a hit show to another, Burnett recalled how Ball had a mastery of her production …
David Spade recently performed in a corporate gig in San Francisco that also included performances by John Legend and David Blaine. But as Spade told Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, the state of the corporate comedy gig in 2015 is the same as it was 10, 20 or …
