The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sabrina Jalees may call herself a daddy, but she’s still a lady daddy. And having a son comes with all sorts of decisions, and the weirdest one may be one of the first, as she explained in this performance on A Little Late with Lilly Singh.
The daughter of a Swiss mother and Pakistani father, Sabrina Jalees is a Canadian by birth who became famous in her native land by starring or hosting in several TV and radio shows north of the border. After immigrating to the U.S., Jalees found herself starting over and coming out. …
For fans of the original Last Comic Standing, there’s something still magical about the premise of putting comedians in a house to live together. Netflix plays into that with this new webseries, Joke House. What happens when you make seven confused Netflix comedians share a single hotel room? Nothing good! …
With the departure of hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory this month, CBS is looking far and wide for new comedies to break through this fall. So congrats to comedians Billy Gardell, Natasha Leggero, Sabrina Jalees, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins and more for joining the Eye Network’s new primetime lineup! …
Netflix made waves two years ago by ramping up production of stand-up specials to almost one per week. Last year, the streaming giant also introduced a handful of half-hour specials called The Standups. In 2018, they’re halving that half! Netflix will make at least 16 new stand-up specials that each …
Vanity Fair profiles some of the legion of stand-up comedians who work the trenches largely behind the scenes of sitcoms and talk shows in “Warm-Up Comics: The Funniest People in TV Who Are Never on TV.” Seth Herzog, pictured above in the Wonder Woman costume he has managed to work …
For the coming three nights and two days, funny women will gather not only to celebrate their various styles of performing comedy but also to share their experiences in making their voices heard — and perhaps most importantly, move the conversation forward instead of rehashing old, already-decided debates about whether …
The second season of Adam Devine’s House Party premieres tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m., before settling into its regular time slot, overnight Thursdays at 12:30 a.m. Eastern/Pacific (11:30 p.m. Central/Mountain). The Comic’s Comic interviewed Devine before season one of his “House Party” debuted in 2013. This year, Devine …
So who received invites to the televised comedy competition that is Last Comic Standing in 2014? Here are your Top 100 who auditioned for Season 8 of Last Comic. The season premieres Thursday on NBC. Not listed in order of finish or preference. Not yet, anyhow. How many of these …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
