The Definitive Guide to Comedy
With only a few days left in the scrum of August which is the Edinburgh Fringe, the panel for the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards for 2015 have announced their nominees for this year’s Best Show and Best Newcomer at the Fringe. And they are… Best Show 2015 Nominees James Acaster: …
Gary Vider was the only stand-up comedian in this week’s quarterfinal action of America’s Got Talent, broadcasting live tonight on NBC from Radio City Music Hall. For his act on Tuesday, Vider cracked jokes about trying to date when women supposedly only have a minute before deciding if a mate …
Marina Franklin was looking good on Monday’s episode of Conan, which as she explained in her stand-up routine, means she’s currently between boyfriends. She has dated white men and black men, and sometimes younger men. But with the latter, she realized her date was too young when a bystander commented …
(Photo of Joe Zimmerman by Mindy Tucker) What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is …
Comedians of and from San Francisco convened on Sunday night at the Punchline to remember Jimmy Gunn, who died earlier this month. Gunn was 50. There’ll be another tribute event on Wednesday in Sunnyvale at Rooster T. Feather’s to #BeMoreJimmy. But who was Jimmy Gunn? A young Andy Kaufman, sounding …
Bob Seibel was a fixture in the Boston comedy scene for decades, performing even into his 70s, when his signature bit about elderly drivers was now about his peer group. Seibel may not have performed as regularly in recent years, and when he did, it was in the suburbs — …
Amy Rice directed a documentary following Barack Obama from Illinois to the White House (2009’s By the People: The Election of Barack Obama), which was nothing like summer camp. Especially nothing like a movie about summer camp. Nor the decks of footage Rice had stored away in her closet from …
This summer couldn’t be hotter for Lil Rel. Lil Rel Howery co-stars as one of the Friends of the People, the sketch show currently in its second season on truTV, plays Jerrod Carmichael’s brother (and David Alan Grier’s son) in the new NBC sitcom, The Carmichael Show, that debuts this …
If you’ve followed any comedy at all over the past few years, then you undoubtedly know or have heard about Tig Notaro and what these years have been like for her. There’s a documentary about that (on Netflix) and you could see her reference it amid jokes and a unique road …
Natasha Leggero opens her first hour special on Comedy Central with a five-minute music video, “Diamond Pussy,” in which she raps and tells an executive played by Thomas Lennon that she wanted to call her entire special, “Diamond Pussy.” What would the Leggero who served as a judge on season …
