The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Seven days from now, Donald J. Trump, who inherited his wealth and real-estate endeavors from his father and won the 2016 presidential election despite a deficit of 2.9 million votes, thanks to help from misinformation campaigns and narrow Electoral College margins in multiple states, will take the oath of office to …
We’ve all heard and seen the reports coming in from theaters and comedy clubs across the country this past year. Donald Trump’s divide-and-conquer presidential campaign, which currently has us in America facing a distinctly unique constitutional crisis, has influenced not just the behavior of Americans in public settings related to …
“Sometimes God just sends you the material.” — Mo Amer How stand-up comedian Mo Amer initially described his encounter with Eric Trump to his Facebook friends last Wednesday. Amer found himself sitting next to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s son, Eric Trump, on a flight last week from New York City to Scotland, …
Denis Leary isn’t afraid of being an asshole. It’s the title of his longtime hit comedy single, and Leary has even updated it with the times. This August, Leary changed his 1990s tune to “Trump’s An Asshole” for a performance on The Late Late Show with James Corden. And on …
When Bill Maher takes the stage in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016, you won’t have to be in the seats at Largo to see or hear Maher take on Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. Maher’s set, #WhinyLittleBitch, will livestream exclusively on Facebook Live (https://www.facebook.com/Maher and www.facebook.com/ATTN). “I had this killer …
With less than a month until the 2016 presidential election, SiriusXM will rebrand one of its comedy channels as “F* Politics” for the week to help you cope with the shockingly grotesque turn in our political discourse. Starting Monday (Oct. 17, 2016), Comedy Greats (ch. 94) will become “F* Politics” with a …
With the 2016 election careening toward Judgment Day, Lewis Black is back on Broadway this fall, giving voice to the grand majority of Americans and citizens worldwide perplexed at our politics and our political discussion. Black is performing “Black to the Future” Monday nights on Broadway, and heading out on …
Enough people have compared the state of our 2016 presidential campaign with the 2006 film Idiocracy that its filmmakers decided to write some new copy for future “President Camacho,” but all of your advance spin on it scared off both the actor who’d star in the videos and the studio …
A foul-mouthed puppet dog has persuaded me to finally sign up for Hulu. Hulu just announced this week it’d end its free streaming service (although you can find some of that programming via Yahoo! in a new deal), putting it more in line with Netflix with $7.99/month (ads) and $11.99/month …
David Cross has been mocking Trump both in his material and in the title of his stand-up comedy tour throughout 2016, but he couldn’t have picked a better time to release his tour performance as a Netflix special than now. If it weren’t for all of the profanity and the …
