The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If the show goes on, by 8:04 p.m. Central Daylight Time tonight, the comedians in Nashville, Tenn., will have broken the Guinness Book of World Records time for the longest continuous stand-up comedy show. And then it’ll go on and on and on some more. The Laugh Factory in Hollywood …
Comedy Central has been on a hot streak of late. The cable channel has led the resurgence of sketch comedy on TV — launching Key and Peele, Kroll Show, and Inside Amy Schumer — expanded its grip on young viewership of late-night with @midnight, won over critics with series that defy categorization such …
How does a Mormon guy from Orem, Utah, wind up spending endless hours sifting through R-rated jokes for several of the big-screen comedies you’ve enjoyed in the 21st century? Brent White’s journey started at Sundance. The Sundance Institute, more specifically. But how White has become the go-to editor for Paul Feig, …
David O’Doherty played a song in the key of life on his teeny-tiny keyboard on Tuesday night’s Conan, and if you don’t recognize your life in his verse, just wait until the next verse. It’s coming. Just like life! Roll the clip.
We’re in the final month of David Letterman’s late-night TV reign, and while Billy Crystal won’t be Letterman’s last guest (although he actually was Jay Leno’s first and last!), Crystal did kick things up a notch or two or more with a musical tribute to Letterman’s sunrise and sunset on …
No matter whether you choose to believe Sarah Silverman or Al Martin over who paid whom what and how much several years ago, believe this: Martin’s former club, New York Comedy Club, is a supporter of fair and equal wages today. Literally. New York Comedy Club tonight hosts “70 Cents …
After swinging his big dildo around Coachella over the weekend (you’ll have to look at Eric Andre’s Instagram for that), Eric Andre burst out of a pinata on Monday night’s Conan to make even bigger and more relevant news. There will be a fourth season of The Eric Andre Show …
Yes, Madonna, as in Madonna. For reasons yet to be explained, Madonna decided to make her stand-up comedy debut on Thursday night’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Unless you want to just take the music idol at her word for it when she told Fallon that she fancied herself as …
Stand-up comedian Joe Zimmerman thought he was doing well for himself, until he Googled himself and found out what all of the other Joe Zimmermans have been up to — all 400 of them on LinkedIn. Google also had something to say about his spirit animal, even though that’s not …
College kids sometimes mix up their real history with their mythos, while New Yorkers can get annoyed much faster at real-life problems than people elsewhere, like the friend who told Keith Alberstadt to get his asthma together. “I’m not addicted to asthma,” Alberstadt counters. “I have an inhaler. Not willpower …
