The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
And Fluffy makes 10. Madison Square Garden announced today that Gabriel Iglesias will perform in New York City’s midtown Manhattan arena on April 17, 2015. Tickets go on sale this Friday, Feb. 6. “Fluffy” already is on an arena tour this week and through the winter/spring. But MSG still has …
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 also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Oxygen has been documenting the lives of six stand-up comedians in Los Angeles, living together and trying to make it in show business. But this isn’t The Real World. This is Funny Girls. And now it can be told that the stars of Funny Girls, premiering 9 p.m. Tuesday, April …
Comedy Central and Jon Stewart’s Busboy Productions announced today the first all-stars booked for its biennial autism benefit, “Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs,” and they include Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Jon Hamm, John Oliver, Paul Rudd and Amy Schumer. The 2015 edition of “Night of …
