The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Black dudes in hoodies: A scary thing, but how scary, really? That’s the question Ian Edwards poses and answers in his stand-up set on Tuesday night’s Conan. Hint: Not as scary as white dudes in suits. And then there is the Rev. Al Sharpton, in a suit. Which is a …
Jodi Miller got her big break on Tuesday’s episode of America’s Got Talent on NBC. Miller, who has a weekly gig as a co-host at The Comedy Store’s Belly Room on Thursday nights, told AGT she continues to deliver groceries to pay the bills. No more day job for her …
Jerry Seinfeld hasn’t been like you for decades now. Even if you are, like him, a stand-up comedian. Even if you are, like him, making your own webseries. Case in point: As Seinfeld promotes his upcoming fourth season of his webseries, Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, he does so via …
Any other night, seeing Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock perform at the same comedy club would be the kind of occasion to become entertainment’s top headline and even conjure up a GQ article a year later just to reminisce. But Saturday night wasn’t any other night in comedy. Or at …
Happy Mondays all around to several comedians thanks to this news from Comedy Central: The network has ordered two new series — Another Period and Idiotsitter— and renewed three others, Inside Amy Schumer, Review and TripTank. Comedy Central President Kent Alterman also announced five original webseries coming out this summer and later this …
The famed cartoonist creator of Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson, continues to slowly emerge once more. Last week, Watterson drew three days of strips as a guest-artist for Pearls Before Swine cartoonist Stephan Pastis. Pastis set it up in your newspaper’s funny pages as “I would pretend that Pearls was being drawn …
Richard Michael “Rik” Mayall, who forged a cult classic of a comedy career in the 1980s with his comedy partner, Adrian Edmondson, died today in his home in Barnes, London. Mayall was 56. Audiences best knew Mayall as Rick, the loud, anarchist poet in The Young Ones, which aired for …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! GETTING DOUG WITH HIGH (Episode 34: Todd Glass …
Julian McCullough toured with Jimmy Fallon last fall on his Clean Cut Comedy Tour, so obviously, Fallon knows McCullough has five minutes of TV-clean material to perform on The Tonight Show. Which he did this past Friday night! In this set, he jokes about how open it is in Kansas. …
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight is embracing its subversive side more and more a month into its run on HBO. Last night, Oliver reported on Syran President Bashar al-Assad, who despite years of civil war that has him finding new ways to kill his own people, still remains in power …
