The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Heading into the Labor Day weekend, Damon Wayans spent his 55th birthday on Friday performing at Carolines on Broadway, and promoted the gigs with a half-hour session on Power 105.1 FM’s “The Breakfast Club” with DJ Envy, Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee. Perhaps you’ve seen the Internet light a viral fire …
So many stand-up specials dot the digital landscape, you could have spent your entire Labor Day weekend marathoning them and not completed the catalogue on any one channel, let alone completing a tour through what Amazon Prime, Comedy Central, HBO, Hulu, Netflix and Showtime have to offer. Besides, watch enough …
Alonzo Bodden first came to your attention as a contestant on the second season of Last Comic Standing. Bodden won the special all-star third season of Last Comic Standing, then returned to serve as a judge for the show’s fifth season. Bodden’s first big break came when he was a “New …
You’ve seen so many comedians making it big in the 2010s via stand-up comedy, via Twitter, via YouTube, heck even via Vines and Instagrams. You’ve seen so many comedians writing books about their lives and careers. But where’s the book that’ll tell you how to make it in comedy? Joe Randazzo, …
Why are there so many more books by comedians about their lives as comedians than seemingly ever before? Perhaps it’s another sign of boom times. The usual gimmicky joke books for bathroom reading, Dave Barry columns and newspaper comic-strip collections have had to make space over the past few years in the …
Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett will portray the lovable Lucille Ball in a new big-screen biopic authorized by Ball’s children, Lucie Arnez and Desi Arnez Jr. The Arnez children will produce with Escape Artists, a studio based on the Sony lot. Aaron Sorkin appears to be writing the screenplay, as …
Why was 6 afraid of 7? You know the joke: Because 7 8 9! Say it aloud. Spell it if you have to. But here we are, in episode seven of a short-order of eight episodes for season nine of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and we’re cutting the field of …
Nary a day after posting a cheeky video in which new Daily Show host Trevor Noah ensured his correspondent team there’d be no major changes, he goes and hires three new correspondents! Very cheeky! Do they say cheeky in South Africa? At any rate. Congrats to Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic …
The Austin comedy scene in the heart of Texas has been hot and getting hotter over the past decade, and in the most recent years, Montgomery Wayne Seitz was at the heart of its growing potential for aspiring comedians, creating an array of open mics and bar comedy shows across …
Gary Marinoff held a bachelor’s degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, but when he died last week suddenly from a brain hemorrhage at 56, Marinoff never quite achieved his dreams of becoming “the next Woody Allen or Groucho Marx,” but as his sister, Janet, wrote on Facebook, “he never stopped …
