The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For Darryl Lenox, hindsight was 20/20. An incident in his young adult life left Lenox almost permanently and completely blind, and the comedian discusses it as well as his path to regaining sight in his new stand-up special, Blind Ambition, which debuted over the weekend on Starz. It repeats this …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… NBC has scheduled the midseason debut of 1600 Penn — the sitcom set inside the White House and starring Josh Gad and Bill Pullman will preview at 9:30 p.m. Dec. 17, following a 90-minute first-part season finale of The Voice. 1600 Penn will premiere …
It took how many years for GoDaddy.com to figure out how to sell its domain-name hosting services in a truly sexy way? Just kidding, GoDaddy. Just kidding. Because that’s normally what their TV spots do, leading you to think there’s going to be some sexy “unrated” content online after you …
For two decades, trivia listings on Wikipedia, IMDB and other websites listed Janeane Garofalo as married. Despite her many jokes and serious statements over the years on stand-up comedy stages, TV shows and other appearances to the contrary, in which the comedian and actress claimed she’d never get married, Garofalo …
Anne Hathaway and Rihanna both have performed on Saturday Night Live a couple of times, so putting them together in one show should be twice the three times the charm, right? Right? To the recap! https://www.hulu.com/watch/423753 But first, one more mocking of Mitt Romney — and most likely for the …
Hanksy is like Banksy but with a dash of Tom Hanks, which makes everything better and funnier. The artist known as Hanksy enjoys adding wit and whimsy to anonymous street art, and that has extended this month to the New York Comedy Festival, to Jim Gaffigan, and to the artist’s …
Myq Kaplan pulled off quite the daily/nightly double on Friday night. Early Friday evening, Kaplan opened for Aziz Ansari’s sold-out show at the Apollo Theater in Harlem; later that night, Kaplan performed on CBS on your TV dial at Late Show with David Letterman (previously taped on Thursday). For this …
Russell Peters is a global superstar in comedy, and his third arena tour of North America visits the new Barclays Arena in Brooklyn on Saturday. Before that, though, Peters sat down for an hourlong chat with comedian Jim Norton (photographed above by Maro Hagopian) in the SiriusXM headquarters in New …
Michael Kosta returned to perform stand-up last night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and this time around, Kosta has some helpful tips on ordering food at Taco Bell — which he later reveals also is helpful advice when dating. Now, as for dealing with other drivers as a …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… More NYC and Tri-State area comedy shows lining up to raise money to help victims of post-tropical storm Sandy in Staten Island, Long Island and New Jersey. Louis CK will perform Nov. 17 on Staten Island. Eugene Mirman will host a comedy benefit …
