The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Chris Turner didn’t come all the way over from England to make his American network television debut and just deliver some clever wordplay, did he? Alas, no. For his first performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Turner let us know he wasn’t joking when he said he was …
Are push-ups better than therapy? Is Kanye West the Michael Jackson reference for millennials? Nore Davis explains in this stand-up set on Tuesday’s Tonight Show.
Niccole Thurman is an actress, writer, and the co-host of the podcast, The Scroll Down with Marcella Arguello. Originally from Kansas, Thurman studied acting at the University of Kansas before finding her place in comedy through The Second City in Chicago. She served as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The …
Bo Burnham received six Emmy nominations for his end-of-the-eligibility-period Netflix special, Inside, recorded, shot and edited all by himself in isolation in his guest house. And he already has won three Emmys for it. Over the weekend, the Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies bestowed him with the statues for both writing …
Bill Engvall is a Grammy-nominated comedian from Texas who made up one-fourth of the mega-successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour alongside Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White, touring from 2000 to 2006 and making a sketch comedy show together. Since then, Engvall also has starred in multiple solo …
Will Josh Blue be the last comic standing on America’s Got Talent 2021? For his semifinals performance on Tuesday, he tied in the recent closing of the Paralympics Games in Tokyo to joke about his own past experience with the U.S. Paralympic Soccer Team.
We already have one stand-up comedian in this year’s finals of America’s Got Talent. Could we have more? Here’s Kabir Singh shooting his shot in the semis during Tuesday’s live telecast. He’s certainly not ready for rejection in his personal life, as these jokes about his dating life prove. Voting …
If you haven’t already heard or seen the news ricocheting across social media and on local Los Angeles TV news, we’ve lost two more comedians over the weekend. Fuquan Johnson, 43, and Enrico Coangeli (aka Rico Angeli), 48, died late Friday night at a house party in the Venice Beach …
How America Killed My Mother is a deeply personal documentary for comedian Ed Larson. Of course, so many more people might share this sentiment in the ongoing wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, but this movie and this journey isn’t about that. Larson’s mother, Kathy Larson, died from diabetes at 65, …
Julie Seabaugh grew up on a farm and discovered stand-up when Dave Attell performed during her senior year at the University of Missouri, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism. In 2003, after moving to New York City, Seabaugh launched her earliest independent effort into comedy journalism with the …
