The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Lil Rel already is living the dream just by having performed on Monday night’s Arsenio. Or so he said. Then again, just imagine if he had the same kind of bluetooth his uncle had. Now imagine him wearing a fitted dress. That’s a wholly different dream. Wake up and listen …
Before there was the viral video, before the Internet meme, before the Tweet and ReTweet, the Huffington Post and the Colbert Bump, there was The Onion headline. (You remember headlines, right? They’re like Tweets, only way fewer than 140 characters.) The Onion headline, now shorthand for the outrageous (and steeped …
Don’t try this at home. Definitely don’t try this at Katz’s. Because it already has been done, and now it has been well done, the beef has been corned, all of the pastrami is hot and put on rye, and there’s no need for you to copycat a copycat when …
If you saw a large tour bus rolling along the streets of Los Angeles last weekend with the faces of Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel painted on its side, with them inside, then you got a first glimpse at their upcoming Crash Test stand-up special. As Scheer jokingly told his …
Here are your nine finalists from Comedy Central’s inaugural Up Next talent showcase contest: Tone Bell Chris Cubas Randy Liedtke Nimesh Patel Joe Pera Ali Siddiq Dave Thomason Aaron Weaver Jenny Zigrino They performed last week at Carolines on Broadway during the New York Comedy Festival‘s Comics To Watch showcase. And …
Last year’s special guest at the Andy Kaufman Awards was Tony Danza. This year? A 24-year-old woman claiming to be Andy’s daughter. Which is a neat party trick, considering Andy Kaufman died 29 years ago, in 1984. Trick or treat, you’re likely to get both from a Kaufmanesque performance. At …
Will Hines and Neil Casey are two of the finest improvisers and sketch comedians in New York City, or your city if they were in and/or are coming to your city, and for a glorious time they performed sketches together in an Upright Citizens Brigade show called “Small Men.” This …
Headphones and phones up! All lines are now open for the Gangster Party Line…it’s not safe for work, and may not even be safe for you, but if you’re willing to talk smack, they are, too. Roll the clip! Brought to you by Brent Weinbach, 2007 winner of the Andy …
Over the weekend, Sacha Baron Cohen showed up the Brits and Hollywood once more whilst accepting his Charlie Chaplin Award for Excellence In Comedy at the BAFTA L.A. Jaguar Britannia Awards, pretending to kill an elderly woman who had been introduced as a co-star with the late great Chaplin. Salma …
Nate Bargatze already performed once this year on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and back in June, Fallon couldn’t have enough nice things to say about the young stand-up comedian. Holding up his stand-up album and whatnot. Well, Fallon one-upped all of that on Friday night’s show. Two-upped it, really. …
