The Definitive Guide to Comedy
To the surprise of perhaps nobody outside of Jerry Seinfeld, Dave Chappelle won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the audio double-album of his first two Netflix specials of 2017, The Age of Spin and Deep In the Heart of Texas. Chappelle hadn’t put out a comedy album …
For perhaps the first time ever (?), all of the Grammy nominees for Comedy Album of the Year are audio recordings from Netflix specials and/or a concert film. One of the nominees, Dave Chappelle, is for TWO specials. And you can start wondering if Louis CK sabotaged his own bid …
Orny Adams played Coach Bobby Finstock for six seasons of MTV’s Teen Wolf. But to comedy fans, Orny is famously and infamously known as the co-star of Jerry Seinfeld’s documentary, Comedian. While Seinfeld developed a new hour of stand-up from scratch, Comedian followed Orny’s obsessive path as an aspiring comedian …
Who is the better Jerry Seinfeld: Seinfeld himself, or Jimmy Fallon? Fallon challenged Seinfeld to a “stand-up battle” on the Thanksgiving 2017 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Really more just a chance to hear some old Seinfeld bits, as well as for Fallon to show off his …
Some comedians don’t want to watch other comedians perform, for fear that it might influence what they say onstage themselves or even how they say it. I can be the same way with reading other reviews of a comedian, TV show or movie that I’m reviewing. Which is how I …
During the Emmys, Netflix not only served notice with the number of awards it won in the ceremonies, but also in an extended TV ad showcasing four of its hit series with four of its exclusive A-list stand-up comedians making specials on the streaming giant. You could see Dave Chappelle …
Jerry Seinfeld’s first Netflix special, Jerry Before Seinfeld, premieres Sept. 19, 2017. In a year in which every A-list stand-up has released a new hour for Netflix, Seinfeld looks like he has made an effort to truly make his newest hour special by looking backward. As this first-look clip highlights, …
The Netflix effect is affecting the list of highest-paid comedians for 2017. That’s the unmistakeable takeaway from the annual assessment by Forbes, which each year tries to make an educated guess at how much comedians have made in the previous fiscal year. Unsurprisingly, Jerry Seinfeld, who’s still raking in residuals …
Just For Laughs has begun gearing up for the 35th anniversary of its biggest comedy confab in the world by announcing the initial slate of headliners, Gala hosts and other performers heading to Montreal this July. The biggest ticket? Jerry Seinfeld, in his first JFL Montreal since 1989, co-headlining with …
“We’re the last philosophers. Everybody now that talks is reading from a pre-approved script. Even our alleged smart people are corporately controlled. So there’s only one group of people that can kinda say what they want to say: Stand-ups.” So says Chris Rock, in the opening moments of the new …
