The Definitive Guide to Comedy
We did it, comedy fans. We withstood another year of craziness, hundreds upon hundreds of comedy specials, and have gotten my friend and colleague in comedy criticism, Jason Zinoman from The New York Times, to join me for another December to Remember and try to make sense of it all. …
Stephen Colbert has come back around to the idea of welcoming stand-up comedians to The Late Show in person (they used to tape the stand-up sets separately in groups, then plug them into episodes when necessary or appropriate). On Monday’s show, Johnson joked about noticing things in New York City …
Josh Johnson is a stand-up comedian and writer from Louisiana who began his comedy career in Chicago. Since moving to New York City, he has performed on late-night TV via Conan, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City, Netflix’s The Comedy Lineup, and a half-hour special …
The Tonight Show has started booking stand-up comedians again, with a twist. Instead of performing for a live audience inside 30 Rock, since The Tonight Show doesn’t have live audiences outside of cast and crew, the show is filming stand-ups from the road. They started this off a month ago …
Netflix made waves two years ago by ramping up production of stand-up specials to almost one per week. Last year, the streaming giant also introduced a handful of half-hour specials called The Standups. In 2018, they’re halving that half! Netflix will make at least 16 new stand-up specials that each …
John Johnson feels grateful to be born when he was, because he doesn’t consider himself anything close to an alpha male who would otherwise survive in this world. Thank goodness he can turn his weakness into comedy! Which he did on Conan. As well as his case for the need …
Formerly known as Comedy Central Presents, and later The Half Hour, Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… will deliver 13 new half-hours of stand-up comedy from up-and-comers, coming at you in back-to-back episodes late Friday nights this fall starting Sept. 15, 2017. This season, filmed like last year in New Orleans, features Adam Cayton-Holland, Anthony …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Remember when seemingly every comedian who ever called him or herself a comedian taped half-hour submissions earlier over the winter? They started finding out from Comedy Central last week, and here’s the full list of stand-ups recording what’s now being called Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… These first 14 half-hours also …
For his late-night TV debut as a stand-up comedian, Josh Johnson flew his high-school teacher up to New York City to watch his performance in person on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Not just because Johnson is a nice guy. But also to make sure his teacher’s prediction came …
