The Definitive Guide to Comedy
So as March turned to April, I decided to try to list all of the new comedy specials that had come out so far this year. Oof. Turns out it’s not so easy to figure out! But I gave it my best effort. See the results for yourself. Plus R.I.P. …
If you needed more evidence that live comedy is already back in big business, then look no further than this month’s Tribeca Film Festival, which announced it’ll host the tapings of 10 new stand-up comedy specials in partnership with Comedy Dynamics. Tribeca and Comedy Dynamics planned to do something similar …
Ester Steinberg started performing stand-up on the lunch tables of her high school in Tampa before attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. While living in Los Angeles before the pandemic, she produced and hosted a regular comedy show in the Kibitz Room of Canter’s Deli, co-starred in the Oxygen …
Dry Bar Comedy has 1.4 million subscribers to its YouTube channel, established four years ago, racking up some 400 million views of stand-up clips and full specials from North American comedians. They boast a library of more than 250 stand-up comedy specials, which you can view on YouTube, on Dry …
Last summer, Comedy Dynamics set up a big stage and a bigger screen outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., to film four separate stand-up comedy specials. Now we know when we’ll get to see the results! Tribeca Enterprises and Comedy Dynamics announced they’ll release the specials over the course …
Kansas native Jeremiah Watkins trained at both The Second City and The Groundlings, and has become a fixture at The Comedy Store in Los Angeles as part of several trademark shows; among them, he was one-third of “The Wave” for Roast Battle as it developed and grew from late-night Tuesdays …
Melinda Hill moved 27 times as a kid before making her biggest move from Kansas to Los Angeles to make it as an actress. She studied with The Groundlings, where she performed as a tooth fairy alongside Kristin Wiig. She starred in a Creed music video. She competed on America’s …
The Joan Rivers Estate has announced a deal with Comedy Dynamics to sort through hundreds of hours of previously unreleased material from the late great comedian, with plans to release a box set, digital albums and more in 2021. As Melissa Rivers told Variety: “While hundreds of hours of my …
Sebastian Maniscalco met Pat McGann in the early 2010s, when Mansicalco was headlining Zanies in Chicago and McGann was the house MC. They eventually became friends and working partners, with McGann warming up the audience for Maniscalco’s Showtime special which taped in Chicago, and then traveling with Sebastian on the …
Jamie Kennedy still may be best known for playing Randy Meeks in the big-screen Scream franchise, but Kennedy has enjoyed a wild and varied acting career since he broke out of background work in the late 1980s. His credits include Romeo + Juliet, Bowfinger, Enemy of the State, As Good …
