The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Wait. What now? Humza Arshad is a 29-year-old YouTube comedian in London, born to Pakistani parents and brought up Muslim. He studied performing arts in college and followed that up with drama school. In 2009, Arshad joined YouTube, where his first effort was a five-episode webseries, “Chronicles of Tuttoo,” about …
Whitney Cummings is getting back in front of the cameras by 2016, inking a new deal with HBO for a stand-up comedy special to film this fall and a sitcom pilot based on Maureen Dowd’s book, Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide. Marty Callner will direct the Cummings stand-up special …
We’re in the final month of David Letterman’s late-night TV reign, and while Billy Crystal won’t be Letterman’s last guest (although he actually was Jay Leno’s first and last!), Crystal did kick things up a notch or two or more with a musical tribute to Letterman’s sunrise and sunset on …
Are sweatpants still sweatpants if you’re not sweating in them? What kind of man takes a bath in the middle of the day? Nick Griffin asks the tough questions and provides answers for them, as he did Friday night in his 11th and final stand-up comedy performance on Late Show …
While a packed SXSW convention center ballroom listened last month to Jimmy Kimmel walk down the memory lane of his life and TV career, a group of foreign-born comedians in a smaller room gave a more global and increasingly more relevant take on what’s happening in America and the world …
“What’s David Letterman going to do next?” Who better to ask that question of random pedestrians passing by than Billy Eichner, host of Billy on the Street. So Eichner did just that, with Letterman by his side. You saw part of it last night on Late Show with David Letterman. …
When David Letterman introduced Jake Johannsen on Wednesday night’s Late Show for his 46th and final stand-up performance on Letterman’s shows, it dawned on Johannsen that his 28-year relationship with Dave is longer than most all relationships. Speaking of his wife, Jake jokes about the very appeal of wife-swapping, and …
George Miller died in 2003 from complications of leukemia at the age of 61, but before that, the stand-up comedian from the Seattle area had appeared some 56 times on David Letterman’s NBC and CBS late-night TV shows. “George was my oldest friend, and one of the funniest people I …
Fans of Craig Ferguson’s version of The Late Late Show on CBS received a special treat this week when his robot skeleton sidekick returned to the show to perform stand-up. Well, the guy who provided the voice of “Geoff Peterson” did, anyhow, which may have caused you to readjust your …
