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Judd Apatow enjoyed a bit of fun at the expense of Matt Damon, The Martian and J.J. Abrams having a bit of fun at the expense of Apatow and comedians everywhere when he addressed the audience at the 2016 Critics Choice Awards. Apatow first pointed out the absurdity of the …
The things you clicked on more than anything else I posted in 2015. Without further ado… 1. Yearbook photos for Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc (as depicted in junior high and high school in Newton, Mass., where they were classmates!), which make any day a great TBT and a chance …
New York Times critic Jason Zinoman joined me for a special year in review of 2015. Instead of just glossing over the headlines like most year-end retrospectives, Jason and I debated what it means to be the comedian of the year and who deserves to be considered in that discussion …
Christmas has become an extra special time for Saturday Night Live, as the cast and writers save their best for the end of the year and always manage to attract their biggest alums and famous friends to make a holiday cameo or two. Having all-time favorites Tina Fey and Amy …
It may feel like 2015 is Amy Schumer’s year, and we’re all just living in it. But Schumer is living in it, too. It’s been such a whirlwind for her, you could set it to Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire” (and mash it up with a dash of …
Amy Schumer’s first monologue as host of Saturday Night Live (because Lorne Michaels and company surely will invite her back again) provided not only a flurry of furiously funny punchlines, but also a hilarious Easter egg for the nerdiest fans of SNL trivia. Can you find it among these chestnuts? To …
Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer won the inaugural prize at the Emmy Awards in 2015 for the newly created category, Variety Sketch Series, where it was nominated alongside Drunk History, Portlandia, Key & Peele and Saturday Night Live. The series already had won one Emmy Award at last week’s Creative …
Amy Schumer closed her first of three opening sets with Madonna on Wednesday night by announcing that Schumer would headline her own comedy show at Madison Square Garden in June 2016. “Who better to open for Madonna than me? The answer: literally, any band,” Schumer joked Wednesday. She’ll also open for …
Stand-up comedians generally frown upon shows that have them performing outside and in the daylight. But Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy and Curiosity Festival, now in its third summer run of dates across North America, offers just that to lure aspiring comics to its second stage. Not that the mainstage, …
In this summer of Schumer, the only thing that can eclipse the announcement by Saturday Night Live today that Amy Schumer will make her hosting debut on Oct. 10, 2015 (episode two of season 41) is the news that Tracy Morgan will make his comedy comeback the following week! That’s …
