The Definitive Guide to Comedy
J-L Cauvin is a native New Yorker who started his stand-up comedy career in Washington, D.C., while going to law school at Georgetown. His first big break came in 2007 when he performed on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, but J-L has found many more fans and followers …
Amazon Prime Video has ordered a year in review comedy special to be hosted by Phoebe Robinson, executive produced by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan, and written by Bess Kalb. Yearly Departed will premiere this winter. “I’m ready to put 2020 on fire like I’m barbecuing at a …
Ms. Pat put Bert Kreischer, Kaley Cuoco and Joel McHale to shame in an episode of Bert’s brand-new Netflix comedy series, The Cabin with Bert Kreischer, and now Ms. Pat will get to shine in her own sitcom! As reported first by Variety, BET+ has ordered a full 10-episode series …
Dangerfield’s, the iconic and legendary comedy club opened by the late Rodney Dangerfield in 1969 on New York City’s Upper East Side, has become the latest casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new commercial real estate listing has appeared for the building at 1118 First Ave., asking $25,000 to rent …
A second season of EPIX’s Unprotected Sets kicks off this Friday night, with weekly half-hour episodes spotlighting stand-up comedians on the rise. Comedians Featured by Episode (with their hometowns in parenthesis): Episode 201: Calvin Evans (Chicago) & Hanna Dickinson (Washington, DC), premiering Friday, Oct. 16 at midnight Episode 202: Kira …
“Meet Del Close, the man with the keys to comedy. If only he can remember where he left them.” That’s the tagline on the poster for the new documentary, For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close, which Utopia Distribution has acquired the rights to, with plans for a 2021 …
Congrats to comedians Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman! Showtime has made a straight-to-series order for 10 episodes of their new half-hour comedy FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS, in which the duo serve as both creators and stars, based on their webseries (since taken down from YouTube). The webseries, described as “dan and kevin, longtime …
After three decades of stand-up comedy, Bill Burr finally landed “a lifelong dream” by hosting Saturday Night Live in October 2020. He covered familiar themes from his catalog, updated for today. Among them: Earth’s overpopulation, and the audacity of white women. Suffice it to say, people who weren’t familiar with …
After several months of no stand-up comedians performing on late-night TV, Jimmy Fallon found a way to bring back his favorite stand-up, Nate Bargatze, broadcasting this recent set of his from Stand-Up Live in Huntsville, Ala. Bargatze joked about the prospect of coughing in public in 2020, and how much …
So much has changed in the world since the last time I caught up with Lewis Black in September of 2016. But last things first, obviously: Black managed to film his last live show before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down live stand-up comedy, recording his March 13, 2020, performance at …
