The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ryan Hamilton grew up in Idaho but lives in New York City now, which might seem confusing to some people. Especially tourists. But it’s also sometimes confusing for the comedian, too, who compares getting into the city rhythm to jumping into a game of Double Dutch. As he joked on …
Can you believe Ryan Hamilton hadn’t performed on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show before Tuesday night? Especially unbelievable if you’ve seen Hamilton before. He’s quite funny. From far away or up close! Roll the clip!
For all of the special live editions of late-night talk shows happening right now, by far my favorite dissection of the state of American politics now by comedians is happening now in an almost live fashion by Comedy Central’s This Week at the Comedy Cellar. Courtesy of two correspondents from …
I wrote a glowing review of Ryan Hamilton‘s first Netflix stand-up special over at Decider, because he earned it! Watching Ryan Hamilton: Happy Face will make your face happy, too. A decade of living and doing comedy in New York City has done this Idaho boy good. And given him the …
Ryan Hamilton grew up in a small town in Idaho and studied broadcasting before turning to comedy. Hamilton calls several comedy scenes home, and that perhaps allowed him to emerge nationally in the mid-2000s in Sierra Mist’s America’s Next Great Comic Search. He’s also won the Great American Comedy Festival …
Don’t be misled by the title or the movie trailers. The Comedian, a Taylor Hackford film (An Officer and a Gentleman, Ray) starring Robert De Niro as a former sitcom star and stand-up comedian still trying to ply his trade into his 70s, is actually a love story about second …
A couple of weeks ago, a friend told me he’d seen Aziz Ansari drop in at a random comedy show in New York City, and that he’d only performed a short set. What was that about? my friend wondered. My reply: Perhaps Ansari was practicing a bit for the Golden …
Ryan Hamilton is a great stand-up comedian and a great stand-up guy who performed to great acclaim on Friday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. You can watch it right here, as he describes the unnecessarily laborious process to cancel his gym membership in 2016. Side note: …
Guest host Drew Carey introduced Ryan Hamilton on Tuesday’s Late Late Show by calling him “one of the best guys working” and one of his favorites, and Hamilton had fun explaining that New York City’s attitude of “if you can make it there” might not square with other places, even …
Every year, I think I know what to expect heading into Montreal’s grand poobah of comedy festivals — Just For Laughs — only to realize I still have much to learn. Here are some of the things I learned from the 2014 edition of JFL Montreal: Tuesday is the new …
