The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A year ago, most comedy clubs had shuttered for the pandemic, leaving stand-ups to go to whatever lengths to find live audiences, from parks to rooftops and anywhere in between where they could set up a microphone, an amplifier, and spaced seating. This summer? We haven’t outlasted the COVID-19 pandemic, …
There’s a new Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor, and it’s got Netflix written all over it. The flavor is called Punch Line. What’s in it? “A Comedic Duo of Brown Butter Bourbon & Almond Ice Creams with Roasted Almonds & Chuckles of Cherries.” Supplies are limited, tho. So get …
What I wrote when Fortune Feimster’s Netflix special dropped in January: The hour is full of memorable anecdotes, as she recounts her slow evolution from tomboy to out lesbian, and how she skipped the closeted part by not understanding her sexuality until her mid-20s. Which makes her act-outs even funnier …
Who’s got jokes? TBS has given the green light to a seven-episode Tournament of Laughs featuring 32 comedians in head-to-head competition, hosted by SNL alum Jason Sudeikis. The series premieres 10 p.m. Sunday, June 21, 2020. The comics will face off virtually in single-elimination contests, with Sudeikis acting as the …
Netflix’s new SiriusXM radio channel, Netflix Is A Joke Radio (ch. 93), will get its own live weekday morning show next Monday (July 15, 2019), hosted by stand-up comedians Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster live from Los Angeles. What A Joke with Papa and Fortune will air Mondays-Fridays from 7-9 …
For fans of the original Last Comic Standing, there’s something still magical about the premise of putting comedians in a house to live together. Netflix plays into that with this new webseries, Joke House. What happens when you make seven confused Netflix comedians share a single hotel room? Nothing good! …
After reviewing so many hourlong comedy “specials” over the past couple of years, it’s so refreshing to see some of my favorite stand-up comedians putting out half-hours for Netflix. All killer, no filler. You can read my review of Netflix’s The Standups on Decider. Here are quotes from each of …
Just when you thought Netflix couldn’t possibly announce more comedy specials, here’s news of a new slate of half-hour stand-up offerings the streaming giant will produce next week. Nikki Glaser, Deon Cole, Beth Stelling, Nate Bargatze, Fortune Feimster, and Dan Soder will tape their first half-hours for Netflix next week in …
Fortune Feimster joked on Late Night with Seth Meyers that she could use her Southern upbringing and religion to explain her prolonged virginity into her college years. But she said she lived up to whatever cliche stereotype you might have about the “chubby girl” in the group at the nightclub …
The CW continues its expansion into televised sketch, stand-up and improv comedy tonight with a 90-minute primetime special from last summer’s Just For Laughs Montreal gala hosted by Howie Mandel. It premieres at 8 tonight Eastern/Pacific, and also features performances by Pete Holmes, Jeff Ross, Jim Breuer, Marina Franklin, Fortune …
