2020 Grammy Award nominees for Best Comedy Album
by The Grammy Award nominations came out today. A reminder that the Grammys use a different calendar year of eligibility, so it covers audio releases from …
Tag: Aziz Ansari
Reviewing the reviews of Aziz Ansari’s “Right Now” on Netflix
If you’re looking for my review of Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix special, Right Now, right now it’s on Decider. Media outlets generally avoid running critiques …
The Aziz Ansari pivot away from wokeness
While Louis CK continues to make unannounced drop-ins at New York comedy clubs, much to the dismay of anyone hoping he’d talk about the reason …
SNL balks at talking about Aziz Ansari in meta sketch
Multiple sketches this past weekend on the Will Ferrell-hosted episode of Saturday Night Live either mentioned the #TimesUp and #MeToo movements directly, or indirectly took …
Samantha Bee defends against any #MeToo backlash on Full Frontal
On last night’s episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee opened her weekly TBS show by examining how there’s already a backlash against the …
Aziz Ansari alleges “completely consensual” sex in #MeToo allegation
Aziz Ansari, who just won a Golden Globe last week for starring in his Netflix series, Master of None, and who wrote a best-selling book …
Highlights from winners at the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards
Would you believe Saturday Night Live took home the most Emmy Awards in 2017? Weird, right. But without Game of Thrones, or Mad Men, or …
Aziz Ansari’s Saturday Night Live monologue
Saturday Night Live opened its first show under the era of President Trump — a confusingly vocal critic of SNL, even though he has other …
“Next time you should come” Chris Rock on an impromptu all-star lineup at the Comedy Cellar
A couple of weeks ago, a friend told me he’d seen Aziz Ansari drop in at a random comedy show in New York City, and …
Snapshot: Most popular comedians on Laugh.ly app by state, vs. presidential leanings, October 2016
Need yet another unscientific way to break down how Americans feel, just a couple of weeks before the 2016 presidential election? New comedy streaming app …