The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 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 …
Is comedy’s Roast Era over? Or just in time-out like much everything else thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic? We’ll have to wait to find out. But as Diallo Riddle pointed out in the first episode of Comedy Central’s Hall of Flame: Top 100 Comedy Central Roast Moments, which aired Monday …
Jason Smith, the CEO of Starburns Audio, died on Friday. Originally from Sparks, Nev., Smith earned his bachelor’s degree in 2001 from the University of Nevada-Reno, before going on to study game design and development at Full Sail University. He was a partner in Feral Audio from 2015-2017, then became …
Eric Andre may just be America’s, if not the world’s greatest prankster (with all due respect to Britain’s Sacha Baron Cohen and Canada’s Nathan Fielder). After first rising on the comedy scene as a stand-up, Andre first made waves in TV with appearances on Don’t Trust the B— in Apartment …
After a year of enduring even more hatred than before thanks to COVID-19, the Asian-American community has received an apology from a perhaps unlikely source: Jay Leno. The Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) announced this week that it had settled a decades-long beef with the comedian and former …
