The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Chris Wade produced this video piece for Slate on four of the people he thinks you should know in comedy who you may not always see in front of the camera. Who’d he pick out? Jonathan Krisel, writer/producer/director on such projects as IFC’s Portlandia, Comedy Central’s Kroll Show, SNL digital …
Esther Povitsky returned to The Late Late Show on Wednesday with some new goals for the new year. And just like you, perhaps, she’s going to the gym. But what if you look around and all of the other people at the gym aren’t yet at shape? Then again, she …
The cowardly massacre of 12 people, including cartoonists at Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a police officer and bystanders, made all of us in the comedy community pause to reflect on the nature of free expression and the importance of civility amid chaos. Some joined massive demonstrations in Paris, New …
The American audience in last night’s Tonight Show was very happy to see British stand-up Simon Amstell. Perhaps they knew he’d be up for mocking his queen. Perhaps they knew he’d also be standing up against sexism. Or just perhaps they all expected a happy journey to the middle. As …
Guest host Drew Carey introduced Ryan Hamilton on Tuesday’s Late Late Show by calling him “one of the best guys working” and one of his favorites, and Hamilton had fun explaining that New York City’s attitude of “if you can make it there” might not square with other places, even …
At least 10 journalists and two police officers were killed today in a massacre launched by multiple gunmen at Charlie Hebdo, a weekly satirical magazine in Paris that frequently lampooned Islam and its prophet Muhammad. Perhaps five others were seriously wounded in the terror attack. The magazine’s offices previously were …
Comedian Dylan Avila is lucky to be alive and still have his wits about him, after a wannabe open micer who’d been banned from multiple Seattle-area comedy clubs and rooms returned to the open mic Avila hosts Monday nights in Renton and bashed him in the head with an aluminum …
SiriusXM is replacing and rebranding its current “Public Radio” station (the satellite radio giant also carries NPR) as Insight, which will debut next Monday — Jan. 12, 2015 — as a more entertaining and, ahem, insightful look at the day’s news. Thank Sirius host and former Colbert Report warm-up comic …
Michael Palascak vows to tell his future children better bedtime stories than his mom told him when he was a kid. As the comedian explained in his stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, Palasack still enjoys going home to visit his parents, though, wherein he learns all of the various parking …
The Late Late Show returned to CBS in 2015 with its first guest host in the post-Ferguson era, and Drew Carey had stand-up comedian Lachlan Patterson booked Monday night. Patterson, a runner-up on the 2014 season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, had more than a few words for George Foreman …
