The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The trade magazine usually waits to time this announcement for late July, celebrating their “10 Comics To Watch” at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, but Variety is out with the 2022 list now! For anyone who hasn’t been keeping track, the Variety list is really more of who’s already hot, and …
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 Employees of the Month for May 2022 are The Kids In The Hall. Congrats Dave, Bruce, Kevin, Mark and Scott! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, …
Look. There’s a reason Simon Cowell knows Celia Muñoz is from Spain, and that’s because last year, she won the Spanish version of AGT. Anyhow. Now she’s hoping to conquer America?! Here’s her ventriloquism audition. And here’s her grand finale performance last year in Spain:
Ben Lapidus has more than 20,000 Instagram followers for his cheeky songs, and he won the America’s Got Talent audience over with his Parmesan cheese song, which in turn won the judges over? This season of AGT might be bonkers.
The 2022 season of America’s Got Talent premiered Tuesday night on NBC, and they’re not pulling any punches from the get-go. Among the first to audition this year: stand-up comedian Mike E. Winfield, who won NBC’s Stand-Up competition for diversity in 2019. Winfield impressed the judges and the audience even …
You may have heard Helen Hong as a regular panelist on the hit NPR quiz show, “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.” Hong also has appeared on the big screen in Inside Llewyn Davis, and in recurring roles on TV in sitcoms and comedy shows including HBO’s Silicon Valley, The Unicorn on …
Ophira Eisenberg had to relearn parenting during the pandemic, which perhaps wasn’t as difficult as answering questions from strangers about her being a mother. As she shared on The Late Late Show.
Jackie Fabulous was living in California for a long time, but has moved back to New York City thanks to her current boyfriend, and has some thoughts about the city’s new mayor and his policies regarding the subway, which she shared on The Tonight Show.
Wyatt Cenac and Donwill have enjoyed a long friendship and working relationship, with the DJ providing beats and sidekick commentary for Cenac when he had a long-running Monday night stand-up showcase in Brooklyn called Night Train, which begat a Seeso series of the same name. They also worked together on …
Steven Rogers, not to be confused with the Steve Rogers in Marvel Comics who’s also Captain America (which is why the comedian’s social media handle is @NotSteveRogers), although as he joked on The Late Late Show, his girlfriends tend to be athletic enough that they might be superheroes?
