The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The longest-running late-night host in TV is saying goodbye in 2021. Sort of. Conan O’Brien’s CONAN will end its TBS run in June 2021. But O’Brien will keep making TV, with a new weekly series forthcoming on HBO Max. Here’s the press release! After an extraordinary 28 years as a …
Colin Quinn seems to have his finger on the pulse of stand-up comedy and America just about as well, if not better, than almost any other comedian in America these days. His most recent solo stand-up special, 2019’s Red State Blue State, poked holes in how united Americans could be …
As previously reported, ventriloquist Jeff Dunham has filmed a new comedy special for Comedy Central that’ll come out this Thanksgiving weekend. Jeff Dunham’s Completely Unrehearsed Last-Minute Pandemic Holiday Special premieres Friday, Nov. 27, 2020, at 8:00pm ET/PT. What’s new? Dunham’s Thanksgiving special is just the first in three new recordings …
The Tonight Show has started booking stand-up comedians again, with a twist. Instead of performing for a live audience inside 30 Rock, since The Tonight Show doesn’t have live audiences outside of cast and crew, the show is filming stand-ups from the road. They started this off a month ago …
Sixteen minutes! Smoking inside during COVID! Dave Chappelle gave zero fucks tonight, delivering the monologue after the 2020 election, returning to SNL four years after he had hosted in the wake of Trump’s 2016 win. Lots of things to talk about, but Chappelle first focused on his own heritage, namely …
Sam Reich was 21 when CollegeHumor hired him as its first Director of Original Content in 2006. In a few short years, the success of in-house webseries such as “Hardly Working” and “Jake and Amir” got Reich and CollegeHumor a sketch comedy show on MTV. While that show didn’t last, …
John Mulaney returned to host SNL for a fourth time, and this time coincided with Halloween, and the weekend before the 2020 presidential election. Mulaney had jokes about voting, but not about Halloween to share in his monologue. I’ll give you my full thoughts in my full episode recap for …
Another sign that summer is finally over, despite the last gasps of sunshine and mild temperatures in October… Stand Up NY, the comedy club on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that put on renegade stand-up shows in Central Park, Prospect Park and other parks throughout New York City — permits? who …
If you’ve been watching The Comedy Store docu-series this fall on Showtime, Carl LaBove brings the third episode to a heartbreaking climax. Director Mike Binder, himself a Comedy Store paid regular in the 1980s, explained how LaBove and Sam Kinison “were like brothers” who’d walk back and forth between the …
Negin Farsad began her comedy career while advising campaign finance policies for the city of New York, and over the course of the 2010s, she has mixed social justice and comedy on stage and on the road. She made and performed in a road-trip documentary across America in 2012 called …
