The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Billy Wayne Davis is a comedian who has performed on Conan, Last Comic Standing and Comedy Central, lent his voice and producing skills to SquidBillies, hosted a travel doc for CMT, Morgan Spurlock Presents Freedom! The Movie , opened for Sturgill Simpson, and worked with Sacha Baron Cohen on both Who is …
Billy Wayne Davis grew up in a small town in the South. How small? Davis will tell you in this stand-up performance from Thursday’s all-comedian episode of Conan (the other guests were Andrew Dice Clay and Jen Kirkman). Going back to his hometown, Davis also joked about realizing that some …
There may have been stronger individual stand-ups to emerge out of Montreal’s New Faces showcases in years past, but as an overall class, 2015’s crop of comedians has proven themselves already as one of the strongest, most unique and full-of-potential groups in years. Here are my first impressions of the …
Each July, talent managers, agents and casting agents converge upon Montreal to network, hobnob and circle around the freshest faces in comedy they can find and say they discovered. Which is how and why Montreal’s Just For Laughs presents its New Faces showcases. In 2015, JFL once more will offer …
If the show goes on, by 8:04 p.m. Central Daylight Time tonight, the comedians in Nashville, Tenn., will have broken the Guinness Book of World Records time for the longest continuous stand-up comedy show. And then it’ll go on and on and on some more. The Laugh Factory in Hollywood …
So here we are. The final episode of the “Invitational” rounds for the Top 100, and we still have so many comics out of those 100 to see, meet and hear tell us jokey jokes! How can we fit that all in a single hour? No time for trick questions; …
So who received invites to the televised comedy competition that is Last Comic Standing in 2014? Here are your Top 100 who auditioned for Season 8 of Last Comic. The season premieres Thursday on NBC. Not listed in order of finish or preference. Not yet, anyhow. How many of these …
