The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Congrats, Amy! Whether or not you win the Emmy this year, or even get nominated, you’ve already won the hearts and minds with this “FYC” video message. Watch Amy Schumer’s 2019 stand-up special, Growing, on Netflix.
Jeff Ross is host, executive producer and presumably the star of Historical Roasts on Netflix. But it’s not about him. Nor is about living people, for that matter. Historical Roasts wants us to enjoy seeing dead celebrities brought to task via the modern-day roast format. Does it work? Well… Joke …
The Emmy-winning Funny or Die web series officially is going big-screen, via Netflix. Directed by Scott Aukerman, Between Two Ferns: The Movie will follow star Zach Galifianakis out of his makeshift talk-show studio and into the rest of the world. Why? Here’s the official description: Zach Galifianakis dreamed of becoming …
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone grew up in the East Bay when the Oakland A’s ran the American League in the late 1980s. In a brand-new surprise Netflix special, The Lonely Island has dropped a half-hour collection of music videos all about that team, that time and that …
The first Netflix special for Wanda Sykes also is the first for any black woman in stand-up, which jeepers creepers, should not be considered normal for 2019. And yet. Here we are. Onscreen, Sykes has found a lengthy and lucrative career as the audience’s voice of reason — whether as …
What weird, wacky stuff. Then, and now. In 1969 and 2019. The star that ties it all together still? Lily Tomlin! Laugh-In landed right in the middle of the zeitgeist, finding the seam between the broad strokes of The Carol Burnett Show and the scandalous satire of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (both also on …
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt wrapped its fourth and final season this January on Netflix, but the streaming giant isn’t ready to say goodbye once and for all just yet. An interactive special is forthcoming, ordered up for 2020. The comedy series stars Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski, and Carol Kane. …
There are too many comedians who say horrible things, and then tell you later it was all a joke. Or don’t tell you, and just let you think it must be a joke because they’re comedians — even though the rest of the set involves them telling sincere stories about …
Netflix is making a big play for sketch comedy this year. They’ve already introduced series from Aussie Chris Lilley and American Tim Robinson. Now they’re adding an even bigger fish: Saturday Night Live alum and Austin Powers star Mike Myers. Myers, last seen on the small screen inhabiting a character …
Kansas City native Chris Porter caught his first big break just months after moving to Los Angeles with a gig competing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He finished third that season. Since then, Porter has recorded two comedy albums, a half-hour special for Comedy Central and an hour available on …
