The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central’s new leaner production/programming strategy continues to surprise, as is the case with the announcement of three more new half-hours, all to be filmed Sept. 15, 2021, at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn alongside a bunch of shorter stand-up showcase sets for the network’s digital platforms. Caleb Synan, Ismael …
Matt Braunger’s routine about an elevator ride from hell has become the first animated Snapchat show for TBS and Conan’s new series, Team Coco’s Comedy Club. New animated stand-up routines will debut Sundays throughout the winter, developed specifically for Snapchat’s mobile platform. You’ll be able to catch them on Snapchat from …
Caleb Synan cleans up well for this performance on Tuesday’s Conan. Synan is from a small Southern town near where they filmed Deliverance, and his hometown’s a bit too proud of that. He has plenty more jokes of his own to be proud of, no matter how many “skits” his …
Fuse is filming a new stand-up showcase series this weekend in Irvine fronted by YouTube star Jimmy Tatro. Uproarious features 30 up-and-coming comedians from both old-school stand-up and new-school social media with both elements included in the series, hosted by Tatro, who himself has attracted 2.5 million subscribers to his …
Caleb Synan had a pretty great summer, competing on Last Comic Standing, landing a slot on Montreal’s New Faces, and now making his late-night debut Tuesday night on Conan. Here’s his set, which joked about racism, Ty Cobb, his life and family in Georgia, and watching an old roast on …
NBC’s Last Comic Standing opened its ninth season last week with an homage to famous competitors from past years who weren’t famous then. “Over the last eight seasons, one show has launched some of the biggest names in comedy,” the voiceover announces, as the visuals show you past glimpses of …
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 …
By Caleb Synan Good comedians do stand-up every night. Sometimes a wedding, a broken-down car, or some other emergency can get in the way of this, but as a general rule, the good ones work more nights out of the year than they take off. That being said, doing 500 …
