The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A year ago, most comedy clubs had shuttered for the pandemic, leaving stand-ups to go to whatever lengths to find live audiences, from parks to rooftops and anywhere in between where they could set up a microphone, an amplifier, and spaced seating. This summer? We haven’t outlasted the COVID-19 pandemic, …
Despite all of my funny friends who recorded funny albums and submitted them for consideration by the Grammy Awards, the big-time awards continue to only have room for the big names in comedy. But there will be no four-peat by Dave Chappelle. His only release this year was via YouTube. …
Jim Gaffigan is known for many things, for which he talks about onstage as a comedian. Among them: Loving food, fatherhood and Catholicism. Not listed: Politics. But Gaffigan decided he had to put himself out there last week while watching the 2020 Republican National Convention. Fans and followers of his …
It’d be both easy and a gross oversimplification for me to merely say, I enjoy Jim Gaffigan’s older stuff better, as if I’m a hipster employee in a record store in the 1990s. So I’ll focus on the positives and play up the things that make Gaffigan’s 2020 double-special for …
Congrats to Jim Gaffigan, who has become the first stand-up comedian to attract at least one billion streaming listens of his comedy tracks in the digital age! Gaffigan recently broke the billion-stream barrier on Pandora, the streaming audio app that’s now a subsidiary of SiriusXM. Pandora noted that no other …
The CW is showcasing stand-up comedy on Tuesday nights this summer, starting tonight, in a new “Happy Hour” series in conjunction with Comedy Dynamics. The specials will air from 9-10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, then be available to stream online the following day on The CW. Jim Gaffigan kicks off the seven-week …
The Grammy Award nominations came out today. A reminder that the Grammys use a different calendar year of eligibility, so it covers audio releases from Oct. 1, 2018, to Aug. 31, 2019. That said, the comedy category continues to be dominated by video specials. Particularly Netflix. Amazon squeezes into the …
Jim and Jeannie Gaffigan have survived and thrived in ways they couldn’t have imagined when they pulled the plug on their TV Land series in the summer of 2016. Within months, Jeannie was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor, and the couple, who have five young children, wondered what would …
There’s a moment in Jim Gaffigan’s first Amazon comedy special, which also is Amazon’s first Amazon Originals comedy special, in which the comedian reveals: “I do sometimes lie up here.” He says it as a segue to jokes about needing to lie to one’s children, and other jokes, including 10 …
A year after Amazon Prime Video announced its intentions to compete for stand-up comedy by filming New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, the plan is starting to become clearer. The first Amazon Originals stand-up special, Jim Gaffigan; Quality Time, will premiere Aug. 16, 2019. The following Friday, Aug. 23, …
