The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A couple of months after he came back to Saturday Night Live but only to accept our applause, Eddie Murphy will get another chance to indulge our adoration with a look back at his comedy career — the Kennedy Center announced today that Murphy will receive the 2015 Mark Twain …
Just in time for this week’s fifth-season premiere of Louie on FX and the upcoming seventh Star Wars movie later in 2015, Nerdist Industries presents this simple, loving tribute to both with “Chewie.” Starring Chewbacca as a stand-up comedian going through the same motions as Louis C.K., right down to …
Stand-up showcases aren’t just for cable TV anymore. A new series from Comedy Dynamics, Coming To The Stage, will spotlight aspiring comedians on a variety of streaming platforms when it debuts in May. Dan Levy hosts the six-episode series, which features a couple of comedians in each half-hour, beginning May …
It’s OK to approach Oxygen’s Funny Girls with at least a bit of apprehension. Billed as a “docu-reality” series about six aspiring stand-up comedians too young to see the title as wordplay on the 1964 Broadway musical and 1968 movie that starred Barbra Streisand, but old enough to already know that …
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart happened to be on vacation last week when the network announced correspondent Trevor Noah would replace Stewart as anchor later this year. So Monday night’s episode was Stewart’s first chance to address the upcoming transition, as well as the backlash and the …
The Dave Chappelle comeback is now complete. After touring with Funny or Die’s summer Oddball Festival amphitheater tour, holding down a residency at Radio City Music Hall and more than a year of theater dates across North America, Chappelle recorded his stand-up for a special over the weekend at Austin …
Move over Childish Gambino and Eddie Murphy, there’s a new gal in town who’s ready to make with the funny and the music both in a summer concert tour, as Anjelah Johnson is ready to perform 14 dates across the South and West this July as her character Bon Qui …
With all of the talk in the past week about satire, freedom of speech and comedians abusing or somehow not doing what they can with that privilege, it’s even more remarkable to consider what John Oliver did during that week. Oliver and a camera crew flew to Russia and interviewed …
How long has it really been since Michael Keaton last hosted Saturday Night Live? Keaton hosted in 1982 when he first broke big with Night Shift (a year before Mr. Mom, even!), then again in 1992 when he was a two-time Batman hero, and then not again for another 23 …
Are sweatpants still sweatpants if you’re not sweating in them? What kind of man takes a bath in the middle of the day? Nick Griffin asks the tough questions and provides answers for them, as he did Friday night in his 11th and final stand-up comedy performance on Late Show …
