The Definitive Guide to Comedy
So many Santos impersonations, Craig Ferguson is coming back to late-night?, #RIP Michael Lehrer, last week’s roundup of new comedy specials and late-night sets, and a shameless plug! All in this week’s dispatch From The Comic’s Comic, delivered straight to your email inbox if you subscribe to my Substack, Piffany.
I’ve been writing so much about members of The Reckoning, that I should have reckoned that another of the iO West’s improv collective would be the breakout star of the New Faces Characters showcases this summer in Montreal. This year’s showcase had a high standard to meet, with UCB co-founder …
Here they are! Well, most of them anyhow. The list the comedy world waits all year for is out — Montreal’s “New Faces” for Just For Laughs. Last year, two “New Faces” made the leap from Montreal in July to Saturday Night Live in September (Brooks Wheelan and John Milhiser). …
