The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Erica Rhodes is an actress and comedian who got her start at the age of 10, performing on the nationally syndicated public radio hit, A Prairie Home Companion. Rhodes began her stand-up comedy career two decades later, inspired by a bad audition. But things have looked up for her since then. …
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 …
This escalated quickly. Comedians only just realized a couple of months ago that they could adopt drive-in movie technology to perform live stand-up shows safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now Comedy Dynamics already has lined up four drive-in shows that the company will film for upcoming specials. It’s all part …
Sorry, Ismo fans. NBC’s Bring The Funny judges Kenan Thompson, Chrissy Teigen and Jeff Foxworthy winnowed the field for this initial comedy competition down in half again on the second round of “comedy clashes.” They chose Erica Rhodes over Ismo. They preferred young Michael Longfellow over Calvin Evans. They sided …
Look, I’m as confused as anyone else watching this summer’s comedy competition on NBC called Bring The Funny. Here’s what I know: Each of the first four Tuesday nights, they presented 10 comedy acts of varying types (stand-up, sketch, characters, musical) and cut them to six for the next round. …
New Faces is decidedly different this year in Montreal. Perhaps it’s due to the Amazon Prime Video camera crews following the aspiring stand-up comedians around Just For Laughs. Yep. Mais bien sur. C’est vrai. C’est très certainement! Pardon my French. In recent years, I’ve gone out of my way to …
