The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Lenny Marcus has an issue with the post office. Don’t we all? Wait. What’s a post office? I know I know (related by blood to the USPS), but how about you. On Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman, Marcus reminded us how the questions the postal clerks ask you …
Bryan Kellen is happy to be married. For one thing, he doesn’t have to try to attract a mate while dealing with the humidity in Houston. You don’t have to picture it. Kellen will show you what that looks like, from Thursday night’s performance on Late Late Show with Craig …
What’s more impressive, having a million Twitter followers or having your own comedy mixtape? If you’re Joe Mande, then both. But really the latter. Because you can buy a million Twitter followers — as Mande as openly acknowledged doing to play with our notions of the importance of social media …
Grawlix! Adam Cayton-Holland did stand-up on The Pete Holmes Show, and as he told us on the TV, he’s very much forward to performing at SXSW in Austin this year based on his first time performing there last year. Suffice it to say, it’s much more pleasurable than prom. Or …
In case you missed it, last night’s episode of comedy game show @midnight on Comedy Central featured a potential spin-off for you daytime TV viewers. Move over, Chris Hardwick. Meet Chad Softwick, host of @midday. And he thinks pointing is rude, so instead of POINTS!, he hands out hugs and …
Forrest MacNeil doesn’t review food, books or movies. “I review life itself,” he declares. Which, in tonight’s debut episode of Review with Forrest MacNeil on Comedy Central, means reviewing stealing, addiction and prom. In that order. It’s the first starring vehicle for Andrew “Andy” Daly, whom you may have seen in …
Nobody asked about Windsor. And yet, time after time in a conference call on Monday, George Lopez made references to what he’d endured the night before a stand-up comedy gig last week in Canada. It seemed timely enough to remind reporters that he is not a saint. After six seasons …
The American Comedy Awards are back in a new format and on a new network (NBC), announcing the nominees on Wednesday night with voting open to you through March 18, 2014. UPDATED: The awards were handed out May 8, 2014 (not the 15th as pictured above). HERE ARE THE WINNERS …
Isaac Witty has come to terms with the fact that his hair is balding, but he’s still figuring out the best way to meet people — whether it’s picking up a woman in a bar or just shaking the hand of another guy. As Witty explained in this stand-up performance …
Chelsea Handler kicked off her “Uganda Be Kidding Me” stand-up comedy and book tours simultaneously Tuesday with a full day of promotional rounds in New York City, starting with ABC’s Good Morning America, taping an interview on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and following that at night with …
