The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The fourth annual Oddball Comedy & Curiousity Festival should have kicked off this Thursday, but the all-star outdoor stand-up comedy tour from Funny or Die and Live Nation has cancelled the first four dates, as well as four more in September. Oddball 2016 has scaled back from 21 tour stops …
Adam Conover not only will “ruin” our culture’s strongly conceived notions of weddings, hydration, dog breeding and movie ratings in season two of his truTV series Adam Ruins Everything, but also will bring his humorous perspective and researchers to bear down on the 2016 election with a special and a …
As he starts appearing for the fourth season as Eric Andre’s talk-show sidekick on Adult Swim, and makes select appearances on the fourth annual Oddball festival of outdoor amphitheaters for Funny or Die, Hannibal Buress also is launching a new solo stand-up comedy theater tour of his own. Tickets went …
We may be a month into summer (and two months from Memorial Day already), but it’s never too late for news of a fourth consecutive Oddball Fest by Funny or Die. Especially when they announced today that this late summer’s tour of North American amphitheaters will include headliners Brian Regan, …
“This isn’t my dream come true. This is beyond anything I could have ever fucking imagined for myself.” That was Amy Schumer at the end of her stand-up performance Thursday night at Madison Square Garden, where she not only became the first female comedian to headline the arena — and …
After a few warm-up shows in recent weeks at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, Louis C.K. is ready to launch his next prolonged stand-up comedy tour, starting tomorrow night in Baltimore and extending through the end of 2016. The tour will start with theaters this month, then jumping to …
Mike Birbiglia’s winning movie about an improv comedy group, Don’t Think Twice, will get a nationwide theatrical run this summer, starting July 22, 2016, in New York City, and preceded by a 20-city “Improv Across America” bus tour complete with free improv workshops. Don’t Think Twice premiered in March at SXSW, …
Here’s your Big Fat Quiz for 2016: How will America receive Noel Fielding without all the trappings of Hollywood that preceded Russell Brand’s arrival upon our shores and our comedy venues? Before you answer. Consider this. Fielding and Brand teamed up multiple times on British television for The Big Fat …
Netflix is celebrating the second of its exclusive movies starring Adam Sandler by having the star head out for a mini stand-up comedy tour in May with his co-stars and comedy buddies. Sandler will be joined on tour by David Spade, Nick Swardson, Rob Schneider and special guests for seven …
Gad Elmaleh’s first all-in-English comedy show, “Oh My Gad,” continues its New York City residency this spring at Joe’s Pub (with another show tonight, in fact). But Elmaleh, a Moroccan French comedian/actor and the most popular stand-up in France, has made it his goal to break through with English-speaking American …
