The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A year ago, most comedy clubs had shuttered for the pandemic, leaving stand-ups to go to whatever lengths to find live audiences, from parks to rooftops and anywhere in between where they could set up a microphone, an amplifier, and spaced seating. This summer? We haven’t outlasted the COVID-19 pandemic, …
Almost 10 years after his death, the life of the great comedian Patrice O’Neal will be celebrated in a new documentary from Comedy Central and All Things Comedy, as Patrice O’Neal: Killing Is Easy premieres this month on Feb. 19, 2021. Here’s a sneak peak with a clip featuring Colin Quinn, …
Despite all of my funny friends who recorded funny albums and submitted them for consideration by the Grammy Awards, the big-time awards continue to only have room for the big names in comedy. But there will be no four-peat by Dave Chappelle. His only release this year was via YouTube. …
After three decades of stand-up comedy, Bill Burr finally landed “a lifelong dream” by hosting Saturday Night Live in October 2020. He covered familiar themes from his catalog, updated for today. Among them: Earth’s overpopulation, and the audacity of white women. Suffice it to say, people who weren’t familiar with …
As I wrote for Decider when this special came out last fall: Don’t let the trailer fool you. The rat-a-tat-tat of hot-button words rattled off by Bill Burr in the trailer for Paper Tiger, his fourth Netflix special (and sixth stand-up special, in all), makes him sound like just another middle-aged comedian disgruntled …
Just For Laughs has announced the first two gets for Montreal this July, and they’re both biggies. Bill Burr will play the Bell Centre for one night only on Saturday, July 25, 2020. Prices vary from $52.25 to $135.00. And The Nasty Show, back for its 32nd year with 11 dirty shows, will …
As we put a bow on 2019, it’s time once again for me to sit down with New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman to look back on the year’s best and brightest moments in comedy, and which comedians brought out the best. We couldn’t help but discuss cancel culture, …
Bill Burr and All Things Comedy continue their affiliation with Comedy Central into 2020, kicking the year off with a Friday-night showcase series called Bill Burr Presents: The Ringers. Each episode will spotlight three comedians, curated by Burr and All Things Comedy as “the best of the new best” comedians, with …
No matter how you try to pin the work of Dave Chappelle or Shane Gillis or any other comedian to him, Bill Burr is not having it. On Monday night’s Lights Out with David Spade, the Comedy Central host wanted Burr and Jim Jefferies to weigh in on SNL firing …
In this age when comedians like to tease other comedians for delivering “TED talks” instead of stand-up comedy, it’s fascinating that nobody has actually used the TED talk format yet to both embrace and mock the trend. Until now. Thanks to Ian Edwards. And Bill Burr. Bill Burr Presents IanTalk: Ideas …
