The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The New York Times launched a new video profile series this week called Off Color, highlighting and showcasing comedians and comedic performers who use humor and their own racial/ethnic backgrounds to inform their social commentary onstage. Featured in the series: Hari Kondabolu, stand-up comedian Kristina Wong, performance artist Issa Rae, online star …
Want the debate over the racist Washington Redskins name and logo to end peacefully? So does everybody else! Hari Kondabolu has an intriguing solution. Keep the name. Change the logo to make the name accurate. Thank Brian McCann for undergoing the sunburn, and Upworthy for uploading the video. Now it’s …
Hari Kondabolu‘s stand-up theme on Monday night’s Conan was colonialism, which meant that he delivered it in English — even though the waiter spoke in Chinese, when we all know that you’re supposed to do in Rome what the Romans do. But what would Adam and Steve do? A lot …
Which kind of racism is more tolerable do you think: The casual kind or the lazy kind? Hari Kondabolu explores both in this stand-up set on Wednesday night, his first appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. Don’t worry. Kondabolu won’t make you do the math. There is nifty tie-in, …
If you didn’t watch all of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s testimony before the U.S. Senate committee that asked hours upon hours of questions about Benghazi recently, then you may have glossed over a moment in which U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) interrogated Clinton about a State Department trip that spent $100,000 …
Hari Kondabolu makes you think without even realizing you were supposed to be thinking. Jokes! Such as: How can a Back to the Future bit make you think about racism and religion both? Ah. Time travel. Kondabolu also introduces his set with a reference to a European heckling that backfired, …
After running a trial episode in March of its American adaptation of “News Quiz,” BBC Radio 4 is moving forward with at least two more episodes in October to bring American comedic sensibilities to the upcoming U.S. elections across the pond for British audiences. Andy Borowitz will host the two …
The first of six episodes of FX’s newest talk show, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, premieres tonight. Some of the promotional clips have executive producer Chris Rock and others asking, “Who is W. Kamau Bell?” To answer that question, The Comic’s Comic asked those people who know Bell’s comedic …
Not only is John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show returning to Comedy Central this year for a third season, but he and the network are taping the showcases this weekend in NYC. So if you’re in or near the city from March 10-12, 2012, you can ask for tickets to …
The proverbial "they" always tell new comedians to embrace the things that make them unique but also relate to the audience. If you’re overweight, joke about that right away. If you have a different ethnic background, address it! That’s what they say, anyhow. I don’t even know who they are. …
