The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
New York Comedy Club and Broadway Comedy Club joined six small city theater venues in filing a lawsuit Friday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, arguing the city and state unfairly have kept them shut down this fall while allowing other entertainment venues to reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The …
In the build-up to season 46 of Saturday Night Live, NBC announced that the sketch-comedy TV institution would be partnering with select comedy theaters and schools across the country to offer scholarships. Now we’re starting to see how that’ll look, and it looks like each of the four institutions involved …
Affion Crocket has found a home for his first solo stand-up special, and it’s with Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud network. Affion Crockett: Mirror II Society will premiere Nov. 13, 2020, on LOL Network’s streaming and audio channels. Crockett (The Wedding Ringer, Pixels, A Haunted House), has many millions of …
We may still be stuck staying away from large in-person gatherings, but that’s not stopping HBO Latino and the New York Latino Film Festival (NYLFF) from mounting the second annual Latino Stand-Up!, a national competition designed to support emerging talent and increase awareness and representation of Latino voices in the comedy industry. The top …
