The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In the new Showtime docuseries about The Comedy Store, Andrew “Dice” Clay credited Mitchell Walters with calling him up and talking him into moving from Brooklyn to Hollywood, leaving Pip’s for The Store where he would cultivate his infamous “Dice” character. Before all of that, though…Walters was quite literally helping …
Big Mike Mitchell has died from a heart attack. Mitchell, who had moved to Tennessee during the pandemic, was born and raised in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, attending Susan Miller Dorsey Senior High School. Mitchell had gotten into comedy after a stint in prison, as he explained …
It’s always extra special when a comedian earns a nationwide TV ad campaign. Even more special when it’s the Super Bowl. And as Matt Braunger attests, that much extra special when comedians haven’t had regular live shows and touring to count on for income. Braunger fronts an all-star ad for …
This is genius. Or it’s perfect. Either way, Dominick Nero has figured out how to give us a very Lynchian take on Seinfeld with this masterful remix, “Seinfeld: The Return.” Nero is the video editor for Esquire magazine, and previously worked for Lorne Michaels editing videos for Above Average and …
The first season of They Ready featured comedians Tiffany Haddish worked with in the trenches of the L.A. comedy scene, and vowed to bring them up behind her. The second season of They Ready, filmed in the pandemic, offered shorter sets from more established comedians who were more than ready: …
Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming platform, has introduced it’s first exclusive stand-up comedy special, and that honor went to Maz Jobrani, with an hour he filmed pre-pandemic in Dubai, then supplemented with quarantine monologues from 2020. Performing in the Middle East means adapting to a myriad of new cultural and religious …
The nonprofit group Comedy Gives Back aims to do even more of just that, pledging this month of February 2021 to help 400 more comedians with financial aid. After last year’s LaughAid telethon for COVID-19, Comedy Gives Back raised enough money to dole out $500 checks to to up to …
An update from The Peoples Improv Theater! Today The PIT announced the first 20 recipients of the program’s new SNL Scholarships. Applicants will receive: 5 classes from across The PIT’s remote classes offerings for NYC-based applicants, 3 classes for Chapel Hill-based applicants. A monthly check-in meeting with The PIT to …
Actor Dustin Diamond died Feb. 1, shortly after revealing he had been hospitalized with stage 4 small cell carcinoma. Diamond was 44. Diamond was best known for his breakout teen-aged role as Screech in NBC’s Saved By The Bell in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Dustin Neil Diamond was born Jan. …
Marc Wilmore, a comedian, writer and younger brother of Larry Wilmore, has died at 57. Marc Wilmore died from COVID-19, although his older brother said Marc had suffered from a variety of pre-existing health conditions ever since undergoing a kidney transplant in the 1990s. Marc Edward Wilmore was born on …
