The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Say what you will about the legitimacy of rape jokes, but at least we all can agree that prison rape is hilarious, right ladies? Because it’s not about you. It’s about horrible men convicted of doing horrible things, having something horrible done to them. Cheeky bastards! John Oliver has crafted …
Dave Hill‘s live show tonight in Brooklyn is titled Meet Me In The Bathroom and Tell Me All Your Secrets. Hill’s fans, meanwhile, already are asking everyone to meet online at Change.org and tell everyone — specifically and most particularly, Stephen Colbert — via petition to “Hire Dave Hill as …
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight is embracing its subversive side more and more a month into its run on HBO. Last night, Oliver reported on Syran President Bashar al-Assad, who despite years of civil war that has him finding new ways to kill his own people, still remains in power …
Most everyone has the conventional wisdom backward on John Oliver. If anyone is wishing they could turn back time by about six months, it’s Comedy Central, because Sir John Oliver — I’ll knight him as an honorable servant of Comedy if the Queen Mother hasn’t yet done so — stands …
Todd Barry was first, in March 2007. Almost seven years and more than 230 unique, intimate portraits later, Seth Olenick‘s work documenting comedians and comedic actors and actresses is preserved in bound manuscript with the publication of his weighty tome of a photography book, “Funny Business.” If you’re in New …
John Oliver did such a stellar job substituting this summer as host of The Daily Show, everyone just naturally assumed Oliver had become the de facto successor to Jon Stewart whenever he’d decide to step down from his role atop Comedy Central’s late-night talk show. Did they think nobody else …
Well, I mean. Really, now. You didn’t think the lawyer for George Zimmerman could open his defense arguments in the Trayvon Martin murder trial with a knock-knock joke and get away with it, did you? While plenty of comedians let the lawyer’s joke have it via Twitter and Facebook retorts, …
“Let’s just all acknowledge for a moment that this is weird. It looks weird. It feels weird. It even sounds weird. It sounds weird to me and this is my actual voice.” — John Oliver, opening his first episode as guest host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, June …
John Oliver made his first appearance last night on Late Show with David Letterman. After talking about the differences between comedy in the UK and the USA — audiences are surprisingly worse and prone to heckling at every opportunity across the pond, apparently, if that makes American stand-up comedians feel …
Hey, comedy fans! John Oliver isn’t only taking over the reins of The Daily Show this summer while Jon Stewart is making movies, but Oliver also is hosting a fourth season of his Comedy Central showcase series, John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show. It’ll tape episodes June 3-5, 2013, at …
