The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Hope all of the comedians who are fathers enjoyed their Father’s Day on Sunday. Jim Gaffigan got to wake up on Sunday to see himself, his wife and his five children on the TV as CBS Sunday Morning profiled him. Roll the clip! But wait. There’s more. Gaffigan also found …
You’ve been waiting for another Flight of the Conchords tour for years. You’ve been waiting for a legitimate Dave Chappelle stand-up tour for years, too. How about seeing them on tour together?!? It’s happening over five weekends in August and September in a town or city near you in America, …
Barry Rothbart has grown a beard for the summer. Hooray, beards! Rothbart performed on Friday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and joked about Super Shuttles and getting into trouble while naked. No, not on the Super Shuttle. They’re separate bits. And not the bits that got him into …
Patton Oswalt wrote “a closed letter” to himself yesterday on the Internet, which means we all can read it, hopefully identify with at least part of it and take away lessons ourselves from it. Oswalt’s letter is an essay in three parts, covering, as the title suggests, joke thieves, heckling …
Nate Bargatze grew up in Tennessee, moved to New York City to pursue his comedy career, then moved back to Nashville when it was time for his wife to give birth to their first child. If it doesn’t make sense to you while reading that, it’ll make much more sense …
I’m not entirely sure if this opening line is brilliant or brilliantly awkward, but I am convinced that Dylan Moran gave 100 percent of himself to this performance last night on Late Show with David Letterman. Moran’s an Irishman. His first stand-up tour of North American theaters begins this weekend …
Kevin Hart’s second stand-up concert film, Let Me Explain, hits movie theaters near you on July 3, 2013. Filmed last November in a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden during the New York Comedy Festival, plus adding footage from the road, Let Me Explain has a new “red band” uncensored …
In case you’re missing it, TBS Just For Laughs Chicago began its weeklong run with shows earlier this week — but you don’t have to be in Chicago to enjoy and experience some of the laughs with your own eyes and ears. The Dailymotion Comedy Showcases began last night and continue …
IFC announced yesterday that it’ll keep Fred Armisen plenty busy for his first two years post-SNL, renewing his pre-taped sketch comedy series with Carrie Brownstein — Portlandia — for seasons four and five. The additional 10-episode seasons will air in early 2014 and 2015. “Portlandia has celebrated sustainable local agriculture, underemployment, …
You may have seen Erik Charles Nielsen before on your TV from time to time as one of the other students at Greendale Community College on NBC’s Community, or earlier this year as a Twitter tormenter of Marc Maron on IFC’s Maron. Here’s something you hadn’t seen until now: Erik …
