The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Walking Dead, a show about life in Georgia just after the zombie apocalypse, has emerged this year as America’s most popular TV series — not just on cable, but also beating just about anything living and breathing on the broadcast networks among viewers 18-49. As the networks watch viewers …
Amy Schumer allowed her sometime opening act to perform the closing number this time for the first season of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer. Bridget Everett also appeared in the “Sex Tips” magazine sketch earlier in the season finale of Schumer’s series, before performing a musical number, “Titties,” at the …
Kevin James: King of Queens? More like modern-day King of the Pratfall, am I right? I don’t know. Am I right? Who has the answers, anyhow. If you even were to guess how many times comedian Kevin James has taken a spill, got knocked down, or went here goes the …
Tig Notaro is hitting the road this summer for a very special stand-up comedy tour. Just how special? “Showtime is going to be filming my tour this summer, beginning in early August,” Notaro says in this clip uploaded yesterday from Seal Beach, Calif. “And we’re looking for venues for me …
You may have noticed a couple of weeks ago, when Zach Sherwin appeared on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, Bell introduced him not as MC Mr. Napkins, but as Sherwin. That’s how it’s meant to be now. Sherwin has dropped his comedy moniker for his more common nomenclature. …
Wild ‘N Out returns to the MTV airwaves after a six-year absence, resurfacing on MTV2 on July 9, 2013, with host Nick Cannon, several of his original improv comedy battlers and special guest Kevin Hart. Two teams of comedians and rappers play short games forcing them to ad-lib songs based …
President Barack Obama gave a big speech last week about climate change and carbon pollution. Or as the science people who use big words like to call the problem: Global warning. As ThinkProgress discovered in the days since Obama’s speech, his solution received coverage and opinions from the TV networks …
Nick Thune taped his first hour-long TV special last week in Brooklyn, and the stand-up comedian and guitarist mentioned how he’d had to postpone the taping due to a broken arm. You don’t have to wait to find out why he broke his arm or what he did in the …
The Upright Citizens Brigade’s 15th annual Del Close Marathon, which wrapped up another weekend of around-the-clock improvised comedy, attracts thousands of comedians and comedy fans from around the world and offers surprises of all sorts. Performers you wouldn’t expect to see on a show but do — Michael Cera acted …
Owen Benjamin‘s new special, which debuts on Comedy Central tonight and comes out in a combined CD/DVD package on July 2, finds him walking the streets of Austin, Texas, high-fiving strangers. It’s the opening for “High Five Til It Hurts.” Why Austin? “It’s such a cool city. It’s the combination …
