The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tig Notaro has the first and more dramatic documentaries about her recent life debuting this month at the Sundance Film Festival. Tig will screen five times this week at Sundance. It covers a trying period in Notaro’s life in 2012, when, as the film’s description notes: “Having just recovered from …
“Comedy is not cool. It shouldn’t be cool, in my opinion. Every time it gets cool, that’s bad…it should never be cool. Comedy is not the winner. Comedy is not the guy that gets laid. It’s the guy that doesn’t get laid. Comedy is not the gorgeous girl, comedy is …
Taylor Negron — stand-up comedian, actor, painter, poet and muse — died Saturday from cancer. Negron was 57. Born Brad Stephen Negron on Aug. 1, 1957, in Glendale, Calif., young Taylor already was performing stand-up comedy and appearing in episodes of The Dating Game by the time he matriculated at …
HBO took its turn before the Winter Press Tour of the TV Critics Association (TCA) on Thursday, and among the premiere date announcements for new and returning series, and an affirmation of the quick season 5 renewal for Girls, the pay-cable network also revealed plans to broadcast a documentary on …
Not even Pauly Shore‘s fans were prepared for how good this new film is. A quarter-century after “The Weasel” popped on MTV and more than a decade after he stopped becoming a reliable box-office star, Shore spent much of his personal and professional capital making light of his status through …
Sometimes alternative comedy isn’t alternative at all, but rather an insane looking-glass mirror of what mainstream stand-up comedy is. In Dan Klein‘s “This is Comedy” special, he could have put the quotations marks anywhere, really. “This” “is” “Comedy” “special.” It’s an hourlong take on stand-up comedy from the perspective of …
TLC has announced a new weekly late night talk show that’ll debut with six half-hour episodes in January that are All About Sex, anchored and co-hosted by comedians Margaret Cho and Heather McDonald, actress Marissa Jaret Winokur and Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry. All About Sex debuts at 11 p.m. ET/PT …
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre recently opened a brand-new training center in New York City, and they’re about to open their first legitimate training center in Los Angeles, too, which also will include an 85-seat cafe theater — the UCB’s fourth performance space. UCB Theatre Sunset, 5419 W. Sunset Blvd., …
Bill Maher‘s double-duty live stunt on HBO did the trick, at least ratings-wise. Maher hosted a special edition of his weekly Real Time talk show on Friday night from Washington, D.C., immediately followed by a stand-up special, Bill Maher: Live from D.C. HBO reports 1.6 million viewers watched it either live …
Netflix has premiered and or distributed dozens of new stand-up comedy specials over the past year and a half, including recent performances from Doug Stanhope, Aziz Ansari, Eddie Pepitone, Nick Thune, Matt Braunger, Iliza Shlesinger, Morgan Murphy, Christian Finnegan, Myq Kaplan, Shane Mauss, Jasper Redd, Moshe Kasher, Dan Cummins and …
