The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Are you an optimist or a pessimist? Jermaine Fowler’s Give ‘Em Hell, Kid premieres tonight on Showtime, and the former co-star of truTV’s Friends of the People has emerged as a star in his own right. Fowler almost landed a sitcom on ABC’s fall schedule this year, then turning around and …
Today’s guest is Jermaine Fowler, who was supposed to get his big break in 2012 as part of a much-ballyhooed reboot of FOX’s seminal sketch comedy series, In Living Color. But Fowler and the new comedy friends he made there made the most of their experience, regrouping and eventually succeeding …
Margaret Cho famously has impersonated her mother in her stand-up routines. In this outtake from the new PBS documentary, American Masters: The Women’s List, premiering nationwide 9 p.m. Friday, Cho describes why it has been important to voice her mother accurately, as well as how her Korean father had no …
Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc may not have won Emmy Awards last night in the category they were matched up in — Jeffrey Tambor won Lead Actor in a TV Comedy for his performance in Transparent — but CK and LeBlanc and all of us are winners for rediscovering their …
Alonzo Bodden first came to your attention as a contestant on the second season of Last Comic Standing. Bodden won the special all-star third season of Last Comic Standing, then returned to serve as a judge for the show’s fifth season. Bodden’s first big break came when he was a “New …
As far as we’re led to believe Maz Jobrani warms up his own audience for his newest stand-up special, I’m Not a Terrorist, But I’ve Played One On TV, which premiered Friday night on Showtime. Jobrani has guest-starred on TV in the likes of True Blood and Shameless, and appeared …
Showtime is going to take a crack at retelling the initial comedy boom of Los Angeles in the 1970s, giving Jim Carrey and Dave Flebotte a one-hour pilot to adapt the book I’m Dying Up Here, to premium cable TV. “The 1970s L.A. comedy scene gave rise to some of …
Despite portraying the President of the United States for several years on network television via Saturday Night Live, and singlehandedly winning the MTV Video Music Awards by impersonating Kanye West, Jay-Z and Drake, Jay Pharoah may still be an unknown to many American viewers. So he asks in the title …
If all of this talk about and from Montreal’s Just For Laughs has you feeling left out of what’s hot in the comedy game right now, no need to fear. You can see who’s hot right now on your cable TV, thanks to the first-ever stand-up special recorded this spring …
Just For Laughs, currently in the homestretch of its 33rd annual congregration of comedians and comedy bigwigs, has announced broadcast plans to share the laughs from this year’s live shows to TV audiences in the United States, Canada, Australia and wherever you can stream comedy showcases online. Here are the …
