The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Amy Schumer returned to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, but for her second time around, the stand-up comedian and actress is now a newlywed. The Trainwreck star, now promoting her new movie I Feel Pretty, joked about her husband’s “worthless” marriage proposal, no longer receiving “u up” texts, as …
Larry David hosted Saturday Night Live, and of course he reprised his Sen. Bernie Sanders impersonation, but since he hosted the show, David also delivered a stand-up comedy monologue. Would you believe he’d be willing to joke about the Holocaust and sexual harassment, and somehow connect them together? Of course …
Jimmy Fallon is getting used to the idea of allowing celebrity guest comedians to “tag in” for his monologues on The Tonight Show. On Wednesday night’s show, Fallon invited Billy Crystal to add several tags on a series of jokes about how old presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton …
The highlight of Sarah Silverman’s first time hosting Saturday Night Live undoubtedly came early in the show, during her monologue. Silverman not only engaged in some next-level meta fun by acknowledging her past — two decades ago as an almost-forgotten featured player in the SNL cast, relegated to roles as …
As the advancing winds and rain of Hurricane Sandy began hitting New York City and the Tri-State area on Monday, the storm forced the cancellation of many live comedy shows, Broadway productions, and TV tapings — among them, the first-ever Brooklyn taping for Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as regularly …
In his first show back on the air since a Muslim extremist sympathetic to Al-Qaeda called for jihad and threatened to cut off his tongue, David Letterman used his sharp tongue to make jokes both at his expense as well as the terrorists, unleashing a monologue and a Top 10 …
