The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Gary Gulman is one of my favorite comedians working today. As I wrote in Decider to herald his HBO special last fall: His comedy always has impressed other comedians because of its specificity. The words he chooses and the way he enunciates them remind us of the weight language can …
As we put a bow on 2019, it’s time once again for me to sit down with New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman to look back on the year’s best and brightest moments in comedy, and which comedians brought out the best. We couldn’t help but discuss cancel culture, …
As the new Joker movie becomes a bonafide smash hit at the box office, it’s not only become a continued topic of conversation, but also a tourist attraction for one particular site in The Bronx. Leave it to Desus & Mero to break it down in the boogie down, as …
As a lifelong fan of Batman but only a casual reader of his DC Comics during my childhood, I confess to not knowing the canonical origin story for his greatest nemesis, The Joker. There was the movie version from 1989, in which Jack Nicholson’s criminal character gets dumped into a …
He’s either two Jews, or a “Gryffindor body but a Hufflepuff soul.” Gary Gulman, one of the best, returned to the new Conan last week, and made his case that instead of growing up in the 1970s, he should’ve grown up as a millennial. Just imagine how tall he would’ve …
Gary Gulman is one of my favorite stand-up comedians. Gulman kicked off 2019 by announcing he’d post daily comedy tips throughout January, and his tips did not disappoint. In fact, they also encouraged other comedians to weigh in, testify, and tag his advice. Gulman also urged: “If you’re brand new, …
Turning a podcast into a TV special, let alone a four-part series, doesn’t make sense for most podcasts. But 2 Dope Queens isn’t any podcast. The hit WNYC podcast from Phoebe Robinson and Jessica Williams is part two-woman comedy duo, part improv, part chat show, part stand-up storytelling showcase. It …
Gary Gulman delivered the best late-night stand-up performance on TV in 2016, and here he is in the first weeks of 2017 with even more from his stellar special, “It’s About Time” (read my review), as he joked on Friday night’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert about the negotiations we …
What a master class of a TV stand-up set here, by my friend, Mr. Gary Gulman, on Wednesday’s Conan. Gulman takes the ridiculous notion of a Netflix documentary on the official U.S. Postal Service decision to create two-letter state abbreviations — which isn’t a thing, although it couldn’t dare compare …
Gary Gulman is the tallest funniest Jew I know, and I’ve known him personally since 2004, when he competed on seasons two and three of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. Gulman went to Boston College on a football scholarship but found his goal line in stand-up comedy a few months after …
