The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Brody Stevens was bombing, but all of the comedians were howling. I could’ve been talking about a show last week, or last year, but this was also the case the first time I saw Steven Brody Stevens perform live, onstage at the weekly open mics at Seattle’s Comedy Underground in …
Guy Branum’s debut comedy album, Effable, came out in 2015. Branum himself has been out for years now, whether he was known as “Staff Homosexual” on Chelsea Lately, or serving up “No Mr. Nice Gay” segments on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. You’ve also seen him more recently on …
If there were any doubt about Chelsea Handler’s standing in show business or in late-night TV, then her live one-hour finale episode of Chelsea Lately on E! should put that to rest, too. Dozens of stand-up comedians who have benefitted from her nightly panels came back to pay homage to …
Long live Chelsea Lately? Nope. Chelsea Handler’s late-night chat show on E! will end its seven-year run on Aug. 26, 2014, with a live hourlong finale. “I myself am more surprised than anyone that I was able to hold down a job for seven years, and it was a fantastic …
Timing really is everything. One minute media is speculating that you’re taking a job with Netflix; the next, one of your fellow late-night TV hosts announces his retirement. In between, you’re on Conan, trying to clarify your own “retirement” plans. You, in this case, are Chelsea Handler. And on Monday’s …
Money and influence have been the only things keeping Chelsea Handler tied to the E! cable channel. Handler earns a reported $9 million annually as host of Chelsea Lately, fronted a reality spoof series starring her writers on E!’s After Lately, and is shepherding another pop-culture talk show on the …
Chelsea Handler kicked off her “Uganda Be Kidding Me” stand-up comedy and book tours simultaneously Tuesday with a full day of promotional rounds in New York City, starting with ABC’s Good Morning America, taping an interview on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and following that at night with …
Chelsea Handler has presided over a raucous, ribald and riotous late-night comedy talk show since the summer of 2007, rotating in three different panelists each weeknight to make fun of the tabloids and their targets on E!’s Chelsea Lately along with her sidekick, Chuy, and her own writing staff — …
Brody Stevens stars in Comedy Central’s “first dramatic comedy series,” Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! which debuts at midnight as Sunday, Dec. 1, gives way to Monday, Dec. 2. The series looks at the life and career of Stevens. Here’s an exclusive look back at where he was four Novembers ago, …
You’re not the only person to have noticed over the years that late-night TV comedy/talk shows are predominately written by and starring white men. NBCUniversal — which includes The Tonight Show (with Jay Leno current edition; Jimmy Fallon as of February 2014), Late Night (with Fallon; soon to be with …
