Emmy Blotnick on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Emmy Blotnick has a newfound appreciation for weighted blankets, and wonders how some of us ended up with so many sleeping accessories, in this performance on The Tonight Show.
THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE, Coming to HBO Max on May 6, 2021
Here’s your first look at what could be Chappelle’s Show for a new generation. It’s THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE! The new six-episode Max Original comedy series THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE premieres May 6. This groundbreaking new original comedy series uses sketches and vignettes to illustrate what it feels like to experience various …
Episode #335: Erica Rhodes
Erica Rhodes is an actress and comedian who got her start at the age of 10, performing on the nationally syndicated public radio hit, A Prairie Home Companion. Rhodes began her stand-up comedy career two decades later, inspired by a bad audition. But things have looked up for her since then. …
Orlando Leyba on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The past year has been both blessing and curse for comedian Orlando Leyba, and both good and bad revolve around the changing nature of his personal space in the pandemic. Leyba explains in this new performance on The Tonight Show.
Episode #334: Maronzio Vance
Maronzio Vance has appeared on Wanda Sykes: Wanda Does It, Jamie Foxx’s Laffapolooza, Last Comic Standing, and The Tonight Show, and put out a half-hour special on Comedy Central, back when those credits seemed to mean something. Vance has released a double-album of comedy called 20, out on Blonde Medicine, laced with his understated …
R.I.P. Anne Beatts
Another of the original writers for Saturday Night Live has died. Anne Beatts, who was the first woman hired to help edit The National Lampoon, and after SNL went on to create the cult sitcom Square Pegs, died Wednesday. Beatts was 74. Her former colleague, SNL’s Laraine Newman, confirmed the …
Episode #333: Ester Steinberg
Ester Steinberg started performing stand-up on the lunch tables of her high school in Tampa before attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. While living in Los Angeles before the pandemic, she produced and hosted a regular comedy show in the Kibitz Room of Canter’s Deli, co-starred in the Oxygen …
Adam Eget Leaving The Comedy Store to run Joe Rogan’s Austin Comedy Club at One World Theatre
Unless Adam Eget is pranking both me and his longtime colleagues at The Comedy Store, the club’s longtime booker has announced — on April 1 — that he has left Los Angeles for Austin to run the new comedy club that Joe Rogan plans to open in Texas’s capital city. …
Lil Rel to host American Version of ‘Small Fortune’ for NBC
It’s a great spring for Lil Rel Howery. Howery, who co-stars in the Oscar-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah as well as new Netflix hit movie Bad Trip with Eric Andre and Tiffany Haddish, plus a new national Aflac TV commercial with Rob Riggle, now also gets a gig of …
Dry Bar Comedy Teams Up With Comedy Dynamics For Wider Distribution
Dry Bar Comedy has 1.4 million subscribers to its YouTube channel, established four years ago, racking up some 400 million views of stand-up clips and full specials from North American comedians. They boast a library of more than 250 stand-up comedy specials, which you can view on YouTube, on Dry …