The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As long as nobody else actually digs into the numbers or knows the tax returns for comedians, Forbes will continue to garner the shares and notoriety for ranking comedians each year based on how much income they earned. What’s the news for 2018? No women on the list (Amy Schumer …
Three former Grammy-winning comedians are vying for another Grammy Award for the Best Comedy Album of 2018. Best Comedy Album: “Annihilation” — Patton Oswalt “Equanimity & The Bird Revelation” — Dave Chappelle “Noble Ape” — Jim Gaffigan “Standup For Drummers” — Fred Armisen “Tamborine” — Chris Rock Chappelle won last …
“What a beard!” “He looks like an out-of-shape Civil War general.” Those comments about Jim Gaffigan come, of course, from the comedian himself, in his trademark inner voice that offers commentary during his own stand-up comedy act. And in Noble Ape, released this summer and broadcast for the first time …
Kathleen Madigan is hosting a special holiday-themed series for SiriusXM Comedy Greats channel 94. “Kathleen Madigan’s Holiday Happy Hour” will air for six weeks, beginning last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, and continuing up til Christmas. Comedians such as Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan, Lewis Black, Marina Franklin, and Greg Warren sit down with Madigan to …
May may have been mental health awareness month, but if the first half of June has reminded us, even celebrities need to be reminded they are loved. Anyone can suffer from depression. All of us need to take care of ourselves mentally as well as physically. The Child Mind Institute has …
Netflix owned comedy in 2017. In 2018 and beyond, who knows? Jim Gaffigan, whose first five hours of stand-up comedy stream exclusively on Netflix, has announced he’ll release his upcoming sixth special, Noble Ape, this summer on multiple major platforms simultaneously. “I wanted to make sure NOBLE APE is available to everyone …
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 …
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 …
This year’s edition of the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, traditionally held the week following Montreal’s Just For Laughs in upstate New York, will feature a week of performances and panels, “Comedy and the Human Condition,” which partners the new National Comedy Center with the renowned Chautauqua Institution. on a week titled July …
