The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Steve Rannazzisi spoke out for the first time in almost a month since the revelation that he’d been lying for 14 years about where he was Sept. 11, 2001. The comedian and star of FX’s The League apologized again this morning, this time on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM morning radio program. …
“I’m Hannibal Buress, and this is my job: Stand-up comedy. This is the only job I’ve ever had. Most people in America do real jobs for a living, though. And those jobs usually involve real skills. I don’t have any of those skills! But for the sake of television, I’m …
Shiny, new and fresh-faced, The Daily Show relaunched Monday night with a new host in Trevor Noah, a new correspondent report from Roy Wood Jr., a first guest in Kevin Hart, and plenty of self-referential jokes to let you know that they know that everything hasn’t completely changed about Comedy …
Brian Regan’s live stand-up performance Saturday night was a big hit to the 6,000 audience members inside Radio City Music Hall, and seemed to work out well, too, for the folks at Comedy Central, who’d never produced a live stand-up special before. Sure, the cable network has gone live every …
Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer won the inaugural prize at the Emmy Awards in 2015 for the newly created category, Variety Sketch Series, where it was nominated alongside Drunk History, Portlandia, Key & Peele and Saturday Night Live. The series already had won one Emmy Award at last week’s Creative …
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart closed out its 16-year run on Comedy Central with two more big Emmy Award wins on Sunday night, earning the prizes for both writing in a variety series as well as the newly split category for outstanding variety talk series. Of course, most of …
Donald Trump impersonations are a dime a dozen, although, obviously any Trump impersonator or The Donald himself would tell you that’s worth billions of dimes. But what about Bernie Sanders? The independent U.S. Senator from Vermont who’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 has seen his campaign gather …
Steve Rannazzisi has shared some sordid tales on his friend Ari Shaffir’s Comedy Central series, This Is Not Happening, but one of his most-told tales about the Twin Towers was too tall for the truth. In a dramatic turnabout, just a few days before his new stand-up special “Breaking Dad” …
The Television Academy has so many categories and nominees to honor each year that it holds two separate ceremonies, naming winners this past weekend in the Creative Arts Emmy categories — which will air on FXX on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, the night before FOX televises the main 67th Primetime …
Jon Stewart’s talking head might not appear on our TVs four nights a week any longer, but his name and his influence is perhaps even farther reaching now that he’s gone, imprinted into the four most vital late-night TV shows of 2015. Note: Most vital. Not most viral. The Jimmys …
