The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employee of the Month for June 2022 is Joel Kim Booster. Congrats Joel! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, Piffany, in 2021, and have transferred over …
Samantha Ruddy made her Tonight Show debut this week, and let us know why she cuts her own hair now. But she’s not quite as comfortable handling her money as she is with her hair.
If you couldn’t figure it out from their stage names, Siegfried & Joy aren’t magicians — they’re comedy magicians. From Germany. Because of and in spite of their goofiness, we’ll probably see more of them on the 2022 season of America’s Got Talent.
Looks like comedian Jordan Conley won over the audience and with them, the judges, with his fancy footwork and big smile, even before he began telling any jokes on America’s Got Talent.
Ryan Dee, a NY-based comedian who performs in costume as Mr. Pants, caught the judges off guard when he auditioned in 2022 for America’s Got Talent. Looks like they ironed out any misunderstanding, though!?
Jordy Fox Ellner is the head of film, TV and podcast development at All Things Comedy, the production company launched by comedians Bill Burr and Al Madrigal. Ellner started as a comedian himself in the late 1990s in Los Angeles, where Mitzi Shore made him a doorman and eventually a …
Preacher Lawson made his Tonight Show debut on Friday, but NBC audiences already well know Lawson from his stint on America’s Got Talent (he’s even the regular MC at the AGT Las Vegas revue at the Luxor!). Anyhow. He’s just excited if you recognize him. But make sure you give …
This isn’t Justin Rupple‘s first reality TV rodeo. Rupple, who’s from the suburbs east of Seattle, previously competed on Dana Carvey’s First Impressions. But who says you can’t get a second chance to make a first impression? Am I right, America’s Got Talent viewers and judges!?
Atlanta-based stand-up comedian Lace Larrabee wasn’t going to let Sofia Vergara’s crosstalk get in the way of her comedic flow, as she demonstrated during her audition for the 2022 season of America’s Got Talent. This former pageant queen got four yesses!
Dan Perlman started out as an intern on SiriusXM’s “Ron and Fez Show” and continued working with and for Ron Bennington while he was hitting the stand-up open mic scene in New York City. After winning the Just for Laughs-New York TV Festival’s “Set to Screen” Comedy Pitch Competition in …
