The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Rory Scovel is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer who came out of the Washington, D.C., comedy scene, and has managed to incorporate the lessons of improvisation into his stand-up throughout his career, from comedy competitions to late-night TV sets to his latest effort, the comedy documentary, Live Without Fear, …
The Internet’s relentless, rigorous demand for content, combined with show business’s relentless, rigorous desire for cash money, has combined in 2017 to bestow us with a bounty of stand-up comedy hours and variety specials, as well as a rash of rankings by amateur and professional armchair critics alike. My two …
Who are we kidding? You know and I know and Rory Scovel knows this is not his first attempt at stand-up comedy, but the title offers up a fun misleading click for new fans on Netflix, as well as an opportunity for Scovel and director Scott Moran to have fun …
The new TV ad campaign for Chipotle’s fast-casual restaurant chain features the voice of Jeffrey Tambor asking comedians John Mulaney, Jillian Bell and Sam Richardson to step inside the magically giant burrito and keep it real. Because the burritos feature all real ingredients. Because people got worried about Chipotle a …
Jason Zinoman is the comedy critic for The New York Times, and has written a new book about David Letterman which will come out April 2017 (pre-order Letterman: The Last Giant of Late Night now!). But first, Zinoman joined me once again to close the book on 2016. Who was the Most …
Rory Scovel has performed multiple times on Conan. But never before on a stage like the Apollo Theater in Harlem, where Team Coco has taken the TBS late-night show for the week. So Scovel made the most of it, wandering into the crowd, down an aisle, interacting with audience members …
Rory Scovel’s first stand-up hour special, The Charleston Special, takes the comedian back home to familiar ground in South Carolina, but asks viewers to go somewhere new and different in Seeso, the new streaming Video On Demand subscription platform that went live yesterday. Seeso is available online at Seeso.com or …
The third annual Funny Or Die Presents Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival 2015 will get a later start in late summer, but run through October and include Aziz Ansari and Amy Schumer as its top-billed stars on all of the dates. Joining Ansari and Schumer for this go-around, a cast of …
truTV showed up for its part of the Turner Networks 2015 Upfront presentations today with two new series ordered up, an extended trailer for another new comedy series and plenty of pilots in the offing. “In just over six months, we have turned over a whole new network, building momentum …
There are so many places to see stand-up comedy on TV and online during this digital comedy boom, that it certainly has become difficult to know what credits even matter any longer. As Grant Pardee notes in a piece today for Paste Magazine: “It was funny to see Madonna perform …
