The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Colton Dunn began performing improv comedy while still a teenager in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dunn moved to New York City just in time to join the upstart Upright Citizens Brigade, then went to Amsterdam to perform with Boom Chicago. When he returned to the U.S., Dunn wrote and performed on …
The 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards, handed out Sunday night live on ABC, saved its biggest prizes for repeat winners but had plenty of opportunities to reward first-timers in the first half-hour of the telecast. In just the first few categories: Louie Anderson won his first Emmy Award, in the supporting …
The Screen Actors Guild announced its nominees for work done in 2015, and an early congratulations to Sarah Silverman for her stand-out dramatic performance in I Smile Back, where she’s nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. Also impressive to see Netflix, Amazon and Comedy Central …
Reggie Watts and I go all the way back to the very beginnings of The Comic’s Comic and even before that. I had moved out of Seattle by the time Watts emerged on the scene there as a show-stopping force, not only as singer and frontman for the band Maktub …
Comedy Central has released its summer 2015 plans for new and returning programming, which will see the debuts of period-piece-parody Another Period starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome, Why? With Hannibal Buress, hour-long stand-up specials from Leggero, Jeffrey Ross, Bridget Everett and Nick Swardson, and new seasons from Key & Peele, Tosh.0, Drunk History, Review and The …
Set your countdown clocks: The 17th Annual Del Close Marathon is a little more than a month away — now serving up improvised comedy from thousands of performers across nine stages from 4 p.m. Friday, June 26, 2015, through the end of Sunday evening, June 28. Hosted and organized by …
In case you missed it last week, President Barack Obama surprised the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by bringing out his “anger translator,” Luther — aka comedian Keegan-Michael Key, who portrays the character as a recurring bit in Comedy Central’s Key & Peele. The White House released footage over the weekend …
Can you picture hearing “A-A-Ron?” on the big screen? If it was good enough for Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, then why not for one of the critically-acclaimed sketch shows of the 2010s? Key & Peele has spun off one of its Comedy Central sketch characters, substitute teacher Mr. …
Praise Touchdown Jesus! The Key and Peele Super Bowl Special, which debuted Friday night on Comedy Central, had only 11 days to put together topical sketches around the NFL’s title contenders, the defending Seattle Seahawks and the challengers, the New England Patriots. And yet. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele and …
Comedy Central has teamed up with the NFL to produce its first-ever official Super Bowl comedy special, and it’ll be an hourlong sketch spectacular from Key & Peele‘s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Key & Peele Super Bowl Special (#KeyAndPeeleSuperBowlSpecial) will premiere at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Friday, Jan. 30th, …
