The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Almost as if I’d just produced my annual list of comedy festivals and asked the folks at Superfly for details about their planned summer shindig with Comedy Central in San Francisco, here comes Colossal Clusterfest! It’s happening June 2-4, 2017, at the Civic Center Plaza & Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, …
Netflix has new stand-up specials already this month from Jen Kirkman, Jim Gaffigan, Neal Brennan, Cristela Alonzo and Bill Burr, with specials forthcoming in 2017 from Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer and Louis C.K., who taped his over the weekend in D.C. So why not Jerry Seinfeld, too!?! Netflix …
A couple of weeks ago, a friend told me he’d seen Aziz Ansari drop in at a random comedy show in New York City, and that he’d only performed a short set. What was that about? my friend wondered. My reply: Perhaps Ansari was practicing a bit for the Golden …
Colin Quinn is the godfather of contemporary New York city comedy in more ways than one. After his first TV break as the sidekick on the 1980s MTV game show, Remote Control, Quinn helped usher other comedians onto TV as host of Caroline’s Comedy Hour on A&E, then a generation …
Not that this is a bad thing. But you couldn’t have been surprised, when Billy Joel sells out monthly concerts at Madison Square Garden, that fellow New Yorker and famous comedian Jerry Seinfeld couldn’t and wouldn’t extend his residency, aka “The Homestand” of shows at the Beacon Theatre after his …
Everybody loves a comedy festival. And in this year of 2016, it doesn’t just feel as though every city has its own comedy festival, because not only do they, but oftentimes, several cities have recruited all-star comedy lineups to their region on the same weekend. And New York City can …
For a time, Sebastian Maniscalco went by just his first name. Not his best look, really. Sebastian doesn’t make you think stand-up comedy. Magician, maybe. Hairstylist? Model? Despite your ability to compliment him on his looks or his stage presence, he’s a Maniscalco by name and by heritage, and in …
Jerry Seinfeld booked two new comedy dates with Margaret Cho today. One for all of us with Internet access, and one just for the crowd upset with one of Cho’s shows last month at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick, N.J. TMZ got its hands on an email the Stress …
Steve Martin remains a great showman after all these years, and whether you want to nitpick about whether he has or hasn’t performed stand-up in the past 35 years and what constitutes stand-up exactly, but it’s great to see Martin entertaining the people live. And that’s exactly what he did …
It took four months for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to book a stand-up comedian performing stand-up comedy, and who knows how much longer we might have had to wait if not for Jerry Seinfeld’s appearance Monday night — since Seinfeld insists upon performing stand-up as a prerequisite to …
