The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The state of the comedy industry, like most everything else in 2024, feels very much in flux. Danny Frenkel and Alex Dajani have seen firsthand how technology and social media have changed the relationships between performers and fans in the 21st century, and have set about finding a better way …
Netflix is getting back into the business of producing half-hour comedy specials. Today the streaming giant announced the six-pack of stand-up comedians who’ll tape their half-hours for season three of The Standups. This new season will tape before live audiences in New York City this summer, and premiere on Netflix …
Mark Normand filmed a stand-up performance while riding the Staten Island Ferry, and filmed it for this appearance as part of Friday night’s Tonight Show. Comedy!
“This is comedy now. It’s in a park. There’s no microphone. You’re basically just a hobo screaming to strangers…in the park.” Behold Mark Normand, in “Park Normand,” a video posted yesterday following him on three gigs in New York City’s Central Park, trying to find live audiences for stand-up comedy …
You may have heard that some comedy clubs have begun reopening after three months since the COVID-19 pandemic forced most of America into self-quarantine. I haven’t seen any of the shows yet (since I’m based in New York City), but this is the first official footage I’ve seen of stand-up …
Sam Morril and Mark Normand both had hourlong stand-up specials on Comedy Central. For their follow-ups in 2020, though, neither could convince Comedy Central, or anyone else, to broadcast them on regular, cable or streaming TV. So they each went to YouTube — after self-producing their tapings. They connected over …
“The phone is just the new booze!” Mark Normand joked about how our phone addiction is problematic in ways we may not have realized yet, in this performance on The Tonight Show. Good thing I never got into White Claw. Roll the clip!
Mark Normand returned to Conan on Tuesday night, this time talking about how the “orgasm gap” is even worse than the wage gap, and how brave he is as a white guy to joke about race and sex in the first place. Roll the clip!
Look, I know that’s a photo from 2016’s Schtick or Treat, but on the bright side, as the new curator of Comedy Listings for the Weekend Arts section of The New York Times, I got that in the newspaper, so let’s all celebrate! As for Schtick or Treat 2018, it …
Mark Normand doesn’t mind being on TV, but don’t you dare make a spectacle out of bringing him fajitas. He’s still addicted to being late, and also, aren’t we all addicted to caffeine? Normand explains on The Late Late Show with James Corden. Roll the clip.
