The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you remember Judah Friedlander from 30 Rock, you likely remember his customized joke hats. For his onstage character in stand-up comedy, Friedlander’s always dressed in the same uniform: Yellow T-shirt, black windbreaker jacket over it, with a red-white-and-blue hat, all of which emblazoned with the words WORLD CHAMPION. Recently, …
You haven’t been seeing double on your Netflix menus this autumn. Jack Whitehall does have two different, yet related projects on the streaming platform. One is a semi-scripted travelogue spoof, Travels With My Father, and if you watch that first, it might help you laugh at Whitehall’s stand-up jokes about …
Patton Oswalt personal and professional lives have seen their highest highs and lowest lows over the past year and a half. Oswalt lost his wife suddenly and unexpectedly, and received a Grammy nomination the next day (which he’d later win, as well as an Emmy for the same special). He …
Good news for Gad Elmaleh and Gad’s fans today! Netflix announced Elmaleh will star in an eight-episode series based on his life, career and move from France to the United States, called Huge in France, as well as a second English language stand-up special. His first comedy special in English, Gad Gone …
Within hours of The New York Times story publishing on-the-record accounts of women recounting incidents in which Louis CK forced them to watch him masturbate, Netflix announced it has dropped plans for the second in a two-special deal with the comedian, while HBO not only unlisted him from its upcoming …
Netflix has announced its second group of stand-up comedians to film half-hour specials for the streaming giant! Aparna Nancherla, Kyle Kinane, Rachel Feinstein, Joe List, Gina Yashere and Brent Morin are set to record next week in Los Angeles for Netflix, with tapings Nov. 5-6, 2017, at The Globe Theater. Tickets are available for free, must …
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Two weeks ago, I rounded up all of the writing staffs working on America’s nightly late-night TV comedy talk shows. Say that three times fast! Easier said than trying to say all the names of the writers three times fast, I’ll tell …
After a year and a half off of TV and onto Netflix, Chelsea Handler has had enough of the talk show circuit. Handler called it quits today, although weekly episodes of Chelsea will continue on Netflix through the end of 2017. The next episode shows up Friday, so expect to …
There’s something more assured and charming about the Christina Pazsitzky that we see in her first Netflix comedy special, Mother Inferior, than we first saw from her three years ago on the TBS comedy competition, Funniest Wins. She has shortened her last name to P to make things easier for …
When you think of blue-collar comedians, well, first off, you think of cowboys and not actual blue-collar workers. Thanks, Larry the Cable Guy and Jeff Foxworthy. But when you think of cowboy comedians, you might not think of Rodney Carrington — despite the fact that he’s sold enough albums to …
