The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In a fatal case of mistaken identity, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputies shot and killed a Tosh.0 production assistant who was trying to help a hostage standoff earlier this week. John Winkler, 30, had moved to West Hollywood from Washington state within the past year to pursue a show-business …
On the night that CBS announced a replacement for Late Show with David Letterman in the coming year, there was no new Late Show to comment on the news. Letterman already had taken the night off Thursday, having been pre-empted 15 minutes anyhow by annual late-night highlights of the Masters …
CBS announced Stephen Colbert will replace David Letterman as its late-night TV host when Letterman retires in 2015. “Stephen Colbert is one of the most inventive and respected forces on television,” CBS Chairman and CEO Les Moonves said in a statement Thursday. “David Letterman’s legacy and accomplishments are an incredible …
Broad City began as a webseries by Upright Citizens Brigade performers Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, and after 35 webisodes and the approval of Amy Poehler, made the leap to TV. Broad City just wrapped its first season on Comedy Central, with a renewal for more episodes in 2015. That’s the …
When Patton Oswalt walked onstage last summer at the Spreckels Theater during San Diego Comic-Con, an adoring crowd receives him with a standing ovation as the tune of The Ettes’ “Crown of Age” thunders through the speakers. “They asked me to pick the most rocking song that you like right now, …
Congrats to Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele and the crew of Key & Peele for their latest honor, joining a prestigious shortlist of TV shows honored by The Peabody Awards. The announcement was made this morning. The Peabody Awards will be handed out May 19, 2014, in New York City, …
A few minutes into the third episode of second season Inside Amy Schumer, we see Schumer onstage delivering stand-up to a captive audience, declaring: “Nothing has changed. I still dress like shit. They just like squeeze me in this right before I came on.” The dress, you see, does not …
Because people neither understand nor want to understand context within satire — particularly when it’s constrained by 140 characters on Twitter — #CancelColbert was a movement of “hashtag activism” that missed its mark by failing to aim for the true target. I’ll let Stephen Colbert as “Stephen Colbert” respond in …
I’ve been a fan of Hannibal Buress since he was only known as Chicago’s top up-and-coming stand-up comedian, back when he was selling T-shirts for his kicking pigeons joke and wondering who the next big blind guy would be. The rest of the nation has caught on to how funny …
Asking who your favorite comedian is always feels like a trick question to me. Do you mean of all-time or right now? What answer are you hoping I give? It feels like only a slightly less cruel joke than asking me to actually tell you a joke. When I left …
