The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Laugh Factory’s Chicago club has announced it will reopen this Saturday (Aug. 1), in accordance with the city of Chicago’s reopening guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. The club plans to put on shows on weekends only through September, with audiences limited to 50 per show. All of the performers …
Congrats to Jim Gaffigan, who has become the first stand-up comedian to attract at least one billion streaming listens of his comedy tracks in the digital age! Gaffigan recently broke the billion-stream barrier on Pandora, the streaming audio app that’s now a subsidiary of SiriusXM. Pandora noted that no other …
For the first week of “Judge Cuts” on the 2020 season of America’s Got Talent, the contestants performed separately from the show’s four judges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant that most of them also could do something unusual this year, pre-taping their callback performances and turning them into …
TV’s Andy Daly, star of Comedy Central’s Review, which ran for three seasons from 2014-2017, has brought critic Forrest MacNeil back out to remind you he’s still reviewing life and everything about it, just now for private clients. What happened to his foot, though?
Congratulations to the nominees for this year’s Emmy Awards! Here are the comedians and comedies in the running for Emmys, which will be handed out Sept. 20, 2020, on ABC. VARIETY SPECIAL (PRE-RECORDED) Dave Chappelle, Sticks & Stones (Netflix) Dave Chappelle, Mark Twain Prize ceremony (PBS) Hannah Gadsby, Douglas (Netflix) …
Discussions of racial representation and onscreen depiction of the police both hit home for Carlos Alazraqui. Born to Argentinian parents, Carlos has spent the most time onscreen as Deputy James Garcia on Reno 911!, which aired from 2003 to 2009 on Comedy Central, spawned a movie in 2007 and has …
Still have no idea how many people are voting in the inaugural Tournament of Laughs on TBS, but they’ve announced the “Fortunate Four” competing for the title tonight… Natasha Leggero vs. Piff The Magic Dragon AND Chip Chipperson (Jim Norton) vs. Tim J. Dillon Leggero beat out Jeff Ross, while …
It Started As A Joke is not just a documentary, it’s also a love story. It’s a love story about Eugene Mirman and so-called “alt-comedy”; about Mirman almost singlehandedly moving that comedy scene from Manhattan’s East Village and Lower East Side over to Brooklyn’s Park Slope and Gowanus neighborhood after …
Jamie Kennedy still may be best known for playing Randy Meeks in the big-screen Scream franchise, but Kennedy has enjoyed a wild and varied acting career since he broke out of background work in the late 1980s. His credits include Romeo + Juliet, Bowfinger, Enemy of the State, As Good …
George Lopez hosted his own late-night talk show for a couple of years in the late 2000s for TBS, but never like this. And never looking like this, either. As Lopez explained guest-hosting for Jimmy Kimmel, his new blond hair was to change things up at age 59. Lopez first …
