The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Grace Helbig is a legendary YouTuber, etched officially into the VidCon Hall of Fame earlier in 2025. The comedian and actress who began documenting her daily life in 2007 through solo videos, two-hander sketches with her college bestie and Brooklyn roomie Michelle, and then DailyGrace on MyDamnChannel, eventually went on …
You’ve been hearing the wit and wisdom of Harry Shearer for the past four decades. Since 1983, Shearer has hosted and produced a weekly hourlong radio program, Le Show, that mixes news reports, interviews and music that can be equal parts referential and comedic. (It’s heard around the world on …
Rob Barnett has been a radio DJ and program director, pivoted to TV as programming director for MTV and VH1 in the 1990s, pivoted back to radio to launch CBS Radio’s “Free” FM in the wake of Howard Stern’s departure, hiring Adam Carolla to replace Stern on the West Coast …
David Wain has been on the cutting edge of digital comedy since the turn of the century, making short films for his live comedy shows with Michael Showalter and Michael Ian Black, debuting a webseries (Wainy Days) on the streaming platform My Damn Channel in 2007, helping Rob Corddry take …
From YouTube to basic cable, from My Damn Channel to E!, Grace Helbig is headed for primetime stardom in 2015 The Grace Helbig Project is the tentative title for the comedian’s weekly primetime “hybrid comedy talk show” set to debut in April on E!, the network announced today. Helbig, 29, …
Forty years ago today, President Richard Nixon resigned. Today today, you can watch comedian, actor and satirist Harry Shearer faithfully and comedically re-enacted this tragic moment in American political history. Here is the relevant excerpt from Shearer’s TV series, Nixon’s The One, which aired earlier this year on Sky Arts …
Imagine a future in which aliens threaten the Earth, only to have the President of the United States in 2776 and the first president, George Washington, travel through the centuries to show the aliens why America and the planet are worth saving. And our first and future presidents are voiced …
The International Academy of Web Television held its annual awards ceremony in Las Vegas on Tuesday night as part of CES, with Carrie Preston — as seen on HBO’s True Blood, but also director of the webseries Darwin — presiding over the awards as host. In case you missed it, …
Real men do eat quiche. And so do manchildren. Steve Rannazzisi ordered a quiche right in front of me on Thursday at Le Pain Quotidien across the street from Rockefeller Plaza. If the thought of that leaves a weird taste in your mouth, get a load of this clip from …
Maria Bamford is portraying her mother in a webseries again, but this time it’s not so much to help herself as much as it is to help you understand Bamford or anything else you might have on your mind. “Ask My Mom” debuted last week on My Damn Channel. The …
