The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Years before Thomas Middleditch was an award-nominated star of HBO’s Silicon Valley, he was just another comedian hustling for fame in Chicago, and in 2006, he didn’t imagine that his rap video mocking McDonald’s chicken mcnuggets would amount to as much as it has. Because McDonald’s bought the video Middleditch …
Craig Ferguson’s next TV series will be near and dear to his heart, and already is tattooed in ink along his right arm. The History Channel has ordered 16 half-hour episodes of Join or Die with Craig Ferguson. Ferguson, Scottish-born but has since become a U.S. citizen, will debate topics …
Amy Schumer closed her first of three opening sets with Madonna on Wednesday night by announcing that Schumer would headline her own comedy show at Madison Square Garden in June 2016. “Who better to open for Madonna than me? The answer: literally, any band,” Schumer joked Wednesday. She’ll also open for …
Eugene Mirman is known for making his own path to success, all while maintaining a lovably absurd childlike view of the world, which serves him well as the voice of Gene on the Emmy-winning animated series, Bob’s Burgers, returning this September for a sixth season on FOX. You’ve seen Eugene previously on HBO’s …
Did a comedian win season 10 of America’s Got Talent? Do you consider ventriloquists comedians? Then yes, and yes again. Because Paul Zerdin became the second ventriloquist to win the $1 million grand prize and a headlining gig in Las Vegas when NBC’s AGT host Nick Cannon announced his name …
Ian Karmel cannot believe he has the name he has with the look he has, especially since he’s living in Los Angeles now and working as a writer for The Late Late Show with James Corden. “I look more like a giant panda than Ryan Gosling,” he jokes. “I want …
