The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Mark your calendars: Comedy Central has set Kevin Hart as the Roast Master for the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber, which will tape on March 14 in California and premiere on the cable network at 10 p.m. Monday, March 30, 2015. Bieber had asked the network to roast him …
Andy Kindler has achieved favored-nation status on Late Show with David Letterman during Letterman’s CBS tenure, not only appearing regularly to perform stand-up comedy sets, but also showing up as a field correspondent. And in what may have been his final chance to do his thing before Letterman retires, Andy’s performance …
Matt Braunger was 39, single, no kids, renting an apartment when I saw him record this hour-plus set last summer at The Bell House in Brooklyn. “I think I’m fucking killing it, you guys,” Braunger told the audience then, and now as his stand-up special, Big Dumb Animal, debuts tonight …
Five weeks into the two-month experiment by CBS to rotate guest hosts in and out of The Late Late Show, we’ve seen plenty of different techniques to introduce viewers to their new hosts for a night (or two or three). Drew Carey already had taken the Late Late desk for …
Shout! Factory TV launched today as a new free streaming service offering cult comedy favorites, from stand-up specials to sitcoms to movies, all available on your computer, cell phone, tablet or TV (via Roku app). The programming comes culled and curated from the company’s Shout! Factory, as well as Westchester …
A lot of 40th anniversary of Saturday Night Live packages are rolling out this month in anticipation of the big SNL40 broadcast on Feb. 15, 2015. Gotham magazine just posted a great series of photos where the current cast cleaned up rather nicely, and during the proceedings, the magazine managed …
Gary Gulman announced today he’s filming a new one-hour stand-up special — his third — and You’ll Get Over It will be an independent concert film produced by Denis Leary and Jim Serpico’s Apostle. Serpico, Leary, Gulman, Bobcat Goldthwait and Maureen Taran serve as Executive Producers. “Sweet announcement,” indeed. Last year, …
In case you missed it, Darrin Rose crossed the border from Canada to Los Angeles this week to perform on The Late Late Show, guest hosted by Sean Hayes. Rose bought his mother an eHarmony account as a gift since she’s single again, but that hasn’t quite worked out like …
If you think the people who review everything on Yelp are weird, then what do you make of the people who review online pornography videos? Ari Shaffir delivers his own take on the subject, in this stand-up performance on Tuesday night’s Conan. Roll the clip! Four-and-a-half stars! Much better than …
Seinfeld has been updated and parodied for today’s times and technology thanks to Twitter (@SeinfeldToday) and (@Seinfeld2000). But what about that other Must-See TV sitcom of the 1990s? Friends uploaded all of its history onto Netflix this year, but how would Friends be portrayed in this year of 2015? Created …
