The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Al Madrigal is half-Mexican and highly allergic. “I’m living the American dream!” Madrigal joked Friday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Madrigal also explained what he did after mistakenly entering a black barbershop, and how to tell if you’re at an authentic Mexican restaurant. If you want more of …
The annual song and dance of broadcast network Upfronts presentations sells advertisers on the need each May to book their 30 and 60-second commercials in primetime on their TV networks come September, with appearances by each network’s big stars and news personalities to make them feel all warm and fuzzy …
Mark Normand has finally hit the big time, and no, I’m not merely talking about how his first stand-up hour premieres tonight on Comedy Central. I’m talking about how he’s wearing a suit on the TV, of course! Watch Normand make fun of himself and his foibles as he navigates …
You’ve come to know and love the voice of Dan Mintz as Tina on Bob’s Burgers. But before co-starring in that FOX animated sitcom, Mintz was a joke writer and joke teller. Here he is to remind you, with four minutes of one-liners performed on Wednesday’s Late Night with Seth …
San Francisco’s first-ever Colossal Clusterfest this June will include interactive exhibits for fans of hit sitcoms South Park, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Seinfeld. The Seinfeld set-up at Clusterfest features a full-scale re-creation of Jerry’s apartment in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a Festivus pole, and food from Monk’s …
You can put a suit on Pete Lee, but it’s not going to disguise his wholesome face and Midwestern accent, as he proved and then joked about in his performance on Friday’s Tonight Show. Lee crushed with a series of jokes mocking his supposed softness and earned multiple applause breaks …
Keith and Kenny Lucas, aka Lucas Brothers, joked on Thursday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon that they’ve been unemployed for the past year. “I mean, I know we shot a special, but that’s not really work.” If you watch their Netflix special, Lucas Brothers: On Drugs, then …
If Kenan Thompson comes back to Saturday Night Live — whether in May or this fall (depending upon a potential WGA strike) — he’d be due to start his record-setting 15th season as a cast member on the venerable network TV sketch comedy program. No one would fault Thompson for …
This is the look on Louis CK’s face right after he told a live television audience that he’d like to buy a goat so he could have “a trash can that I can make love to.” Yep. CK grins in a way that lets you know how much he can’t …
Julio Torres is a comedian originally from El Salvador who’s made it not only all the way to Brooklyn, but also to a writing job on Saturday Night Live. He’ll perform a half-hour special for Comedy Central this year, but first, here’s a short but sweet set from Tuesday’s Late …
