The Definitive Guide to Comedy
During Monday’s SXSW panel on “Creating the Shows That We Like,” Will Forte — co-creator and showrunner on the new FOX series he stars in, The Last Man on Earth — recounted an old, very NSFW bit he used to run with while a member of Los Angeles sketch group, …
“Why invite me if you don’t want it to get ugly?” That was Roastmaster Kevin Hart talking at the top of the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber, which taped Saturday night in Los Angeles and premieres March 30 on Comedy Central. Joining Hart in the #BieberRoast? Hannibal Buress, Chris D’Elia, Pete Davidson, Natasha …
Forbes prints out a list each year of the 10 comedians who made the most money from touring, films, TV gigs and commercial endorsements. But who’s really raking in the dough? Graduate student Randy Olson followed the money to CelebrityNetWorth.net and then started crunching the numbers. Here’s what he figured …
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival now is a recurring feature in both Brooklyn and Boston, with the fest now returning to the latter city for the third year this April. Highlights for the third Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival in Boston, April 17-19, 2015, include: Star Talk Live! hosted by Mirman with …
To promote their new movie, Get Hard, stars Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart made fun of the fact that they hadn’t worked together until now by revealing via Funny or Die video that’s because they’d always been auditioning for the same parts. So now you can see what Hart would …
Trainwreck — presented Sunday night at SXSW in Austin as a “work-in-progress” — is a triumphant two-hour big-screen comedy that’s the best thing that could have happened right now for its star and writer, Amy Schumer, as well as its director, Judd Apatow. If timing remains the secret to successful comedy, …
Two of the “Blue Collar” comedy guys are going to be heard loud and clear no matter whether their stand-up tours take them to a city near you in 2015. Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy will team up for their own brand-new round-the-clock comedy channel on SiriusXM satellite …
Earlier this month, Josh Sneed headlined The Punchline Comedy Club in Atlanta. He took a selfie backstage and posted it a few days ago to Instagram, as we all are wont to do in 2015. But as you can see by reading the small print next to Sneed’s face, he …
Comedy Dynamics announced on Thursday that it’ll team up with the estate of the late Bill Hicks to reissue and re-release his entire slate of stand-up comedy albums and specials. All of his albums — Arizona Bay, Dangerous, Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1, 12/16/1961, Love, Laughter and Truth, The Adventure, …
This year’s annual Record Store Day will feature the CD debut of a rare and out-of-print 1968 stand-up album from the late Joan Rivers — The Next To Last Joan Rivers Album — thanks to Stand Up! Records. The Next To Last Joan Rivers Album will be released April 18, …
