The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A friend asked me on New Year’s Day if I’d heard the joke Natasha Leggero had made on live TV the night before, and I thought, what joke and who cares. No, really. Isn’t that why NBC hired Leggero — along with Jane Lynch and Anthony Anderson — to stand …
What difference does a year make? Alonzo Bodden headlines this weekend at Carolines on Broadway to open 2014, just as he had 2013. Later this year, he’ll be recurring in the final season of Showtime’s Californication. When I met Bodden near Times Square almost a year ago, that gig hadn’t …
Happy 2014, everybody! Before we plunge forward into the new year, let’s take a look back at what caught the fancy of comedy fans over the past year. Here were the 10 most popular posts of 2013 on The Comic’s Comic, and what they said and still say about us. …
Hello, internet people, including whoever put a joke about vegans that I wrote on a butcher shop window. I wrote a joke a few years ago and performed it on Conan in 2012. You can see it at around the 4:00 mark in this clip: A while ago, someone took …
Broad City, the Comedy Central series that began as a webseries by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, has its TV debut on Jan. 22, 2014. But the premiere episode already hit the Internets over the weekend for you to enjoy now or at your leisure over the next few weeks. …
Twas the day after the day after Christmas, so now it’s safe to take another look at comedic takes on the song, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” You may have loved watching Jimmy Fallon and Cecily Strong put their spin on the Christmastime song in last weekend’s Saturday Night Live. Of …
Here’s a #TBT for you from July 2010, when Donald Glover ventured to Montreal to receive a rising comedy star award from Just For Laughs — he also performed as his hip-hop alter ego, Childish Gambino, both at the official JFL party as well as at Doug Stanhope’s “car wash” …
You know it’s a full-fledged comedy boom when they’re manufacturing and marketing stand-up comedy toys for kids! From friend of the site J.P. Buck came a #LastMinuteGifts photo of a “Clap & Laugh Microphone Set” on sale for $29.99. From the company Toys To Grow On, it’s marketed to children …
Whether or not you see The Wolf of Wall Street this Christmas, you’ve already likely seen the dance moves star Leonardo DiCaprio puts on in a scene shown in many of the trailers — comedian/actor Henry Zebrowski is right there grooving along, too, in between DiCaprio and Jonah Hill. My …
The UCB pitched this video in an email as if it were one of those dumb misleading Upworthy things, and you’ll never believe what happened next: I still wrote a post about it! MERRY CHRISTMAS! Watch as Santa (Flytracker) and his helper elf (Shockwave, aka Chris Sullivan) treat tourists and …
