The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Bert Kreischer’s initial foray into touring comedy at drive-in movie joints was so successful, other comedians and drive-in operators have gotten into the act across America this summer. And Kreischer has set a second slate of summer dates. Here they are! AUG 10 MON — Starlite Drive-In @ 7:00pm, Wichita, KS …
We already knew Team Coco was expanding its comedy profile by producing stand-up specials for HBO Max. Now we know who and when. The first of the five previously announced specials will roll out in August on HBO Max, starting with Beth Stelling (who filmed hers in March) and James …
Nikki Glaser got out of her parents’ house and into the Jimmy Kimmel Live TV house to guest-host Tuesday night’s show. Glaser recalled filming an embarrassing episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (also hosted by Kimmel), and deciding to spend the following week with her parents in St. …
Comedian and singer Bridget Everett will star in an HBO series inspired by her upbringing in Kansas. HBO today announced it had ordered Somebody Somewhere to series, with Everett starring and executive producing. Jay Duplass directed the pilot last year, and he and his brother Mark Duplass also will EP, …
And now it’s official. Montreal’s Just For Laughs won’t convene in person this summer, or this fall, or at all in 2020. Instead, JFL is going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Details to come, but an online edition of showcases, panels and more now will happen Oct. 9-10, 2020. …
To start the third week of Jimmy Kimmel’s summer vacation, guest host Joel McHale took the show out of the house and into the swimming pool. It’s the “Summer Bash Pool Party”? Guillermo is still working, tho.
The fifth season of W. Kamau Bell’s award-winning CNN series, United Shades, premiered Sunday night. I wrote a little bit about Bell and his program for my weekly installment in things to see and experience for the Friday Weekend Arts section of The New York Times. Bell and his crew …
Here we have the final eight comedians remaining in the first-ever Tournament of Laughs competition on TBS. Your votes determine who advances and wins. How many people are voting? Who’s winning by how much? We may never know. For now, all we know is who’s still in the competition this …
This bit by Esther Povitsky about men lusting after “barely legal” teens is out of control, and you shouldn’t have needed recent allegations this summer against multiple Los Angeles comedians to make you rethink that. And yet. Povitsky at least was trying to bring it to our attention when she …
You know the comedy boom has reached its over-saturation point when, even in the middle of a global pandemic, Netflix forgets or otherwise neglects to put out a trailer in advance for one of its own original stand-up comedy specials. Or is that all part of the branding for Urzlia …
