The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It takes more than a good bass lick to join the Saturday Night Live band. It takes a good supportive laugh, too. In fact, the latter may take precedence, as this parody video proves — thanks to Flavorwire, which released …
A lot can happen in four years. Just look up at that photo, from the last time we gathered to celebrate and commiserate over the stand-up comedy competition known as Last Comic Standing on NBC. Felipe Esparza, laying amid his …
Did Andy Kindler make any self-deprecating comments during his State of the Industry at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival? Did I need to include a year in that previous sentence? Rhetorical questions aside, Kindler’s annual rhetorical roast of the year …
“I look forward to this speech every year. The State of the Industry — some of you have seen this, some of you are new — this is the best moment of the festival. This is where Andy Kindler goes …
Andy Kindler is not only a correspondent for Late Show with David Letterman, he’s also sometimes asked to showcase his stand-up comedy on the program. As he did again last night. In this set, Kindler jokes about hotels that put …
“Are you good?” Marc Maron asks the question sincerely after I enter his hotel room in Midtown Manhattan, catching the comedian amid a day full of back-to-back phone interviews with the media. Not “Are we good?” nor the colloquial “We …
As the Carnival Triumph cruise ship endured a slow-tow across the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, following several days stranded at sea after losing power, comedians jumped aboard the Twitter joke parade — not to make fun of the passengers, …
It has been 40 years since Marlo Thomas and her friends made puberty and sex a little easier to swallow for young children with the seminal release of Free To Be…You And Me. Oh no. I didn’t. But Rob Kutner, …
A classic game show beloved by comedians and comedy fans returns to the TV airwaves five times a week starting tonight. But Match Game isn’t coming back to America. Try heading north of the border. Oh, Canada! Sally was so …
Every four years, the two major political parties in the United States of America meet in late summer to make formal their nominees for president and vice president, set party platforms, and mostly just party. As recently as a generation …
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