The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Al Madrigal grew up in San Francisco and worked in his family’s HR business for 10 years before deciding to pursue a career in comedy. The next decade found Madrigal on the cusp of fame, starring or co-starring in a handful of network sitcoms and even more TV pilots that …
In the late 1990s, between the comedy booms, perhaps the hottest live stand-up show in Los Angeles happened every week on a Tuesday night. That’s when Guy Torry began hosting Phat Tuesdays at The Comedy Store, introducing black comedy for black audiences into the lily-white-dominated landscape of show business — …
Jackie Kashian put out one of the best comedy specials of 2021. I said so over on Decider! Here she/her is performing a few minutes of the jokes from “Stay-Kashian” on The Late Late Show with James Corden on Monday night.
Ali Vingiano is a writer, actress and filmmaking comedian who has leveled up over the course of the pandemic. She received her first Writer’s Guild Award nomination in 2022 for her work as a writer and executive story editor on Apple TV+s The Morning Show, and also stars in a …
Sean Donnelly made his Tonight Show debut on Friday night, several years and more than 60 pounds lighter since he got to do Letterman. Donnelly joked about the changes his body has gone through going into his 40s, as well as how intermittent fasting worked better for him than working …
Stand-up comedian and actor Louie Anderson died Jan. 21, 2022, after being hospitalized in Las Vegas for DLBCL Diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Anderson was 68. Born March 24, 1953, as Louie Perry Anderson, the second-youngest of 11 children grew up in St. Paul., Minn. He began his comedy career …
Jeff Wright was making funny TikToks and other comedy videos when Late Night with Seth Meyers hired him, and now this young Florida man has jokes about “Florida Man,” getting basketballs as therapy, and what it’s like walking around all day every day with a big ol’ smile on his …
Beth Lapides is an actress, writer and comedic performer who has appeared on Will & Grace, Sex & The City, and Politically Incorrect. But she is best known for creating the alternative comedy show UnCabaret, which has been running off and on and mostly on since the late 1980s in …
Raanan Hershberg has stopped drinking, and he’s got some observations about how his life already has changed drastically. He thought that turning 37 meant something, but it’s nothing compared to the two options for you if you’re 75 in America these days. Hershberg explains in this performance on Tuesday’s Tonight …
Robert Lane Saget, known around the world as comedian and TV star Bob Saget, died Sunday after the first weekend of his 2022 stand-up comedy tour. He was 65. Authorities summoned to his hotel room in Orlando, Fla., where he was declared dead, found “no signs of foul play or …
