The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jasper Redd wanted to address America last night, and so he spoke out on Arsenio. The comedian envisioned a day in which President Barack Obama finds his legacy commemorated in coin. Perhaps the penny? Redd jokes about how the penny is the blackest of money, and uses “his third eye” …
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With less than a week to go before premiere of season 8 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, the network has unveiled new promotional videos and unleashed all of the 100 comedians who participated in the invite-only auditions. They started telling their friends on Facebook, Twitter and other even more sociable …
Emo Philips boasts one of the most distinctive voices in comedy and has for the better part of three decades. His 1985 record, “E=MO2,” remains the gold standard for joke-writers of his generation and those who have followed him into stand-up comedy. Last weekend, Philips performed in two shows at the …
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 …
For the first episode of their webseries chat show, “Let’s Talk About Something More Interesting,” Milana Vayntrub and Stevie Nelson sat down with comedy sketch group Good Neighbor in 2011. Vayntrub and Nelson asked the fellas — Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney and Nick Rutherford — a bunch of questions regarding …
Dan Telfer knows dinosaurs. How well does he know dinosaurs? Well enough to challenge the audience on The Pete Holmes Show to name the best, baddest extinct dinosaur of all time, only to have him tell them why they’re most likely, probably wrong. By the way, Telfer said this via …
Once again, a funny show you enjoyed fronted by a comedian on FX has unsuccessfully transitioned to FXX. Jim Jefferies, star of Legit, announced today that his show has been cancelled. Its second season concludes tonight with back-to-back episodes on FXX. “Legit has been cancelled. Sorry to everyone who was …
This is different. Comedy Central has released a YouTube video of Marc Maron’s latest stand-up record, “Thinky Pain,” as a record. You can hear Maron talk about his life, career and thoughts while watching his record spin on a turntable. And yes. They flip the record. Enjoy! Here’s a link …
This could mean anything or nothing at all, right? Right????!?!?!?! On the eve of the annual CBS Upfronts presentation to advertisers, CBS chief Les Moonves and his wife, The Talk‘s co-host Julie Chen, posed for a photo with Joel McHale. Chen posted the photo early this morning to her Twitter …
