The Definitive Guide to Comedy
People were going Hollywood long before Bing Crosby starred in the 1933 film musical Going Hollywood. Certainly, though, countless unknowns have packed their bags and moved to Los Angeles in the years and decades since then, hoping for show business to discover them and make them a star! New York …
At 46, Greg Warren is behind the curve in certain respects. No disrespect to the institutions of marriage and parenthood. With all due respect. It’s just maybe Warren isn’t as behind as you think he is. As he explained in this stand-up performance on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. …
Sebastian Maniscalco and his wife have different ways of dealing with a wild opossum in their yard. Same goes for squirrels, even! Let him explain in this stand-up set from Thursday night’s Conan. You can find a full hour where that came from in Maniscalco’s latest stand-up special, “Aren’t You …
American hero “Stephen Colbert” closed out his nine-year run of hosting The Colbert Report with one final edition of “The Word,” by cheating death (sorry, Grimmy), by inviting a who’s who of who’s that to sing along with him to the tune of “We’ll Meet Again,” and then by flying …
Sometimes alternative comedy isn’t alternative at all, but rather an insane looking-glass mirror of what mainstream stand-up comedy is. In Dan Klein‘s “This is Comedy” special, he could have put the quotations marks anywhere, really. “This” “is” “Comedy” “special.” It’s an hourlong take on stand-up comedy from the perspective of …
After weeks of embarrassing reveals by unknown computer hackers who cracked into Sony Pictures, it was a terrorist threat with references to another 9/11 that prompted movie theater chains to pull back from the release of The Interview, and now a full cancellation from Sony. Sony released this statement just …
Kyle Dunnigan is more than just an award-nominated writer for Inside Amy Schumer. Dunnigan also has magic hands, as he demonstrated during his stand-up performance on Thursday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Dunnigan also has his own Christmas album, which he spoke to The Comic’s Comic about last year …
What a wonderfully solid episode of Saturday Night Live from start to finish. Even the sketches that seemed about to go off the rails enjoyed a moment of salvation. It’s a two-weeks-before-Christmas miracle! Or hopefully a sign of the long-mentioned transition actually transitioning. Either way, let’s get to the recap …
Ted Alexandro has missed multiple gigs over the past few weeks to march with the activists of #BlackLivesMatter. Alexandro, a veteran headlining stand-up comedian and native New Yorker, also had sat in and marched with #OccupyWallStreet. But this is different. Our nationwide reaction to the events in Ferguson, Mo., where …
The Late Late Show on CBS will have its first-ever in-house musical bandleader when James Corden debuts in March 2015, and it’s none other than one-man musical genius Reggie Watts! Watts comes with plenty of mock-talk show experience as the bandleader on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! with Scott Aukerman, which …
