The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I spoke to Sam Reich on this podcast back in the fall of 2020, when he was in his first year running Dropout, the subscription-based streaming platform he founded as a follow-up to CollegeHumor where he had worked for much of his adult life. Four years later, Reich and Dropout …
Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employee of the Month for July 2022 is Janelle James. Congrats Janelle! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, Piffany, in 2021, and have transferred over to …
Jackie Mason, a Tony and Emmy-winning stand-up comedian so identified with Yiddish humor he named his YouTube channel, “TheUltimateJew,” died on Saturday at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Mason was 93. Mason won a Special Tony Award in 1987 for his first one-man show on Broadway, The World According to …
I’ll have more to say about this soon enough, but for now, it’s enough to toast and congratulate these shows and performers and crew members for their Emmy Award nominations! Here are the relevant categories for comedy folk: OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES – 2021black-ish · ABCCobra Kai · NetflixEmily In Paris …
Tonight’s the deadline to submit your Emmy Awards ballots, after which number-crunching will determine who receives nominations in 2021 for work over the past 12 months. I’m not an Emmy voter this year. But if I were, or if you are, I urge you to consider marking the following on …
W. Kamau Bell won another Emmy Award for his CNN program, United Shades of America! Hannah Gadsby and Rachel Bloom both won their first Emmys! Here’s a full list of comedy-related winners from this weekend’s two-night celebration of the Creative Arts Emmys, aka all of the Emmy Awards they didn’t …
Congratulations to Hannah Gadsby, who tonight won the Emmy Award for writing for a variety special for her 2018 comedy, Nanette. It’s Gadsby’s first Emmy! She and the other stand-up comedians nominated for the Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded) lost that category to Carpool Karaoke: When Corden Met McCartney Live From …
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee isn’t the only late-night show fronted by a woman that’s eligible for an Emmy in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category. But Bee is the only woman left standing. Literally. While E!’s Busy Tonight and BET’s Raq Rants aren’t airing new episodes anytime soon, Bee’s …
Congrats, Amy! Whether or not you win the Emmy this year, or even get nominated, you’ve already won the hearts and minds with this “FYC” video message. Watch Amy Schumer’s 2019 stand-up special, Growing, on Netflix.
Megan Amram, writer for The Good Place (and before that, Parks and Recreation), almost pulled off an incredible feat last year, getting nominated for two Emmy Awards by writing and starring in a webseries which she only wrote and starred in for the purposes of winning an Emmy. Amram is …
