The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central’s half-hour specials for 2019 will kick off this October. More specifically, here’s the Friday night rundown for Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… premieres (times are Eastern/Pacific): Friday, Oct. 18: Jaboukie Young-White (11pm); Vanessa Gonzalez (11:30pm) Friday, Oct. 25: Dulcé Sloan (11pm); Will Miles (11:30pm) Friday, Nov. 1: Tom Thakkar …
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has added Jaboukie Young-White as the latest correspondent to join “The World’s Fakest News Team” which includes Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic, Dulcé Sloan and Roy Wood Jr. Young-White will make his debut on the show tonight, at 11 p.m. ET/PT with an in-studio …
Jaboukie Young-White returned to The Tonight Show for his second performance as a stand-up, and started out by reflecting on how his parents reacted to his debut. His coming-out performance. Which opened up Young-White’s eyes to his family and culture, too. Roll the clip!
Congratulations to this year’s class of “10 Comics to Watch,” as anointed by Variety magazine and toasted in July at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. Variety usually compiles its list by a combination of asking industry influencers, plus forecasting based on what comics already have lined up in the coming …
Look out, Montreal’s New Faces (now sponsored by ICM!)! There’s a new comedy showcase coming for your prestige. Comedy Central’s Up Next, which debuted last year at the inaugural Clusterfest in San Francisco, is expanding in year two to include not only up-and-coming stand-ups, but also sketch comedians and variety …
Jaboukie Young-White made his debut Wednesday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and couldn’t help but notice that different parts of America consider him as different races or ethnicities. On the plus side, he can joke that he makes a great cover model for liberal arts college catalogs. On …
The eighth annual Comics to Watch showcase for the New York Comedy Festival comes with a twist in 2017, as the partnership with TBS and Team Coco means one or more of these talented comedians may earn a spot performing on Conan. Here are the Comics To Watch showcasing in …
