The Definitive Guide to Comedy
So many stand-up specials dot the digital landscape, you could have spent your entire Labor Day weekend marathoning them and not completed the catalogue on any one channel, let alone completing a tour through what Amazon Prime, Comedy Central, HBO, Hulu, Netflix and Showtime have to offer. Besides, watch enough …
Nary a day after posting a cheeky video in which new Daily Show host Trevor Noah ensured his correspondent team there’d be no major changes, he goes and hires three new correspondents! Very cheeky! Do they say cheeky in South Africa? At any rate. Congrats to Ronny Chieng, Desi Lydic …
TV Land loves how its summer looked so far, as the cable network announced renewals for both of its new series currently on the air, The Jim Gaffigan Show and Impastor. “We’re really proud of these shows that represent the new TV Land,” said Keith Cox, TV Land’s Executive Vice …
Natasha Leggero opens her first hour special on Comedy Central with a five-minute music video, “Diamond Pussy,” in which she raps and tells an executive played by Thomas Lennon that she wanted to call her entire special, “Diamond Pussy.” What would the Leggero who served as a judge on season …
It’s Throwback Thursday. Tomorrow is Flashback Friday. If you think reliving past memories and sharing them via social media is something, then get a load of what happens when Dana Gould plays a mad scientist who gives comedians Barbara Gray and Whitney Teubner fancy futuristic phones that can transport the …
When is @midnight not at midnight? Well, for anyone in the Central and Mountain time zones of the United States, that’d be all the time that the time is off for Comedy Central’s popular comedian game show. But for even those of you who live on the coasts, it’ll be …
In case you missed it — and if you tried to DVR or otherwise record it instead of watching in real time, you did — the finale of Jon Stewart’s 16-and-a-half years at the helm of The Daily Show on Comedy Central hit all of the high notes. Stewart wasn’t …
Jon Stewart welcomed Louis CK as his final official guest on The Daily Show for his penultimate episode on Comedy Central on Wednesday night, and the two comedians quickly began reminiscing about their younger days at the Comedy Cellar, and even just last Wednesday night at the Cellar. Here is …
Ron Funches knows he’s a giggly teddy bear, but how much do you know about Ron Funches? Since moving from Portland, Ore., to Los Angeles, Funches has found success as a writer, actor and stand-up comedian, with roles on Comedy Central’s Kroll Show, IFC’s Portlandia, and now as Shelly — …
As Comedy Central viewers watched Jon Stewart on The Daily Show concocting a fun story about why he’d ever have a secret meeting with President Barack Obama, patrons at The Comedy Cellar in New York City were privy to an even rarer treat Wednesday night — watching Stewart onstage doing …
