The Definitive Guide to Comedy
New Wave’s Comedy Dynamics debuted its new Hulu channel today. You can check out the following stand-up comedy specials at your convenience, free of charge. The initial lineup at launch includes: Louie Anderson, Big Baby Boomer (2012) https://www.hulu.com/watch/653723 Josh Blue, Sticky Change (2012) https://www.hulu.com/watch/658206 Kyle Cease, Weirder. Blacker. Dimpler. (2007) …
All of the shows at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival begin first with a pre-recorded announcement for audience members to check in using social media, but please, to turn off or silence the cell phones as well as their heckling mouths and enjoy the show. Jimmy Carr‘s stand-up performance includes …
The hype surrounding stand-up comedian Jerrod Carmichael is justifiable and warranted. At 26, Carmichael is having a breakout year. A shining supporting role in Neighbors, which has earned $150 million at the American box-office since May and another $100 million globally. An HBO hourlong stand-up special directed by Spike Lee …
On Monday night, Montreal’s Just For Laughs and ComedyPro Conference announced most of the New Faces of Comedy for this week’s festivities. Generations of stand-up comedians have regarded New Faces as a stepping-stone to something bigger, in part because the festival and because the industry long treated it as such. …
Hulu is getting a stand-up comedy boost as its streaming options soon will boast the archived collection from New Wave Entertainment‘s stand-up special catalogue. The Comedy Dynamics channel will debut July 29 on Hulu, with specials both on the free service as well as the paid Hulu Plus subscription package. …
Sometimes it really is Christmas in July when you’re working in Hollywood. Such was the case last week when Jim Jefferies touched base with The Comic’s Comic after a day on the set of The Librarians, a new TNT series based on the film franchise that debuts later this year. …
Kurt Metzger may be the nicest and most reasonable person onstage and off, who simultaneously is joking about things and using language to which many strangers might take offense. Perhaps he truly is “White Precious.” That’s the title of his first hourlong stand-up special, which debuts tonight on Comedy Central …
Forget everything you read in the gossip pages about what Katt Williams is doing offstage. HBO has set a date for his newest stand-up special, directed by Spike Lee. “Katt Williams: Priceless” will premiere Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. Here’s the first official trailer of Williams back onstage doing his thing. …
Lewis Black‘s most recent one-hour special, Old Yeller: Live at the Borgata, arrived first to fans last summer live via pay-per-view before EPIX distributed it to cable subscribers in May. Black is staying ahead of the interactive curve with his live shows this weekend in Napa, Calif., incorporating questions not …
Six years after his Kill The Messenger special, Chris Rock finally is ready to put together a new stand-up tour. Rock announced he’ll mount “The Black Plague” Tour around October or November, making the announcement last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. “The Black Plague? That’s what it’s …
