The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jon Stewart’s talking head might not appear on our TVs four nights a week any longer, but his name and his influence is perhaps even farther reaching now that he’s gone, imprinted into the four most vital late-night TV shows of 2015. Note: Most vital. Not most viral. The Jimmys …
Bill Burr will hit the big-time of Madison Square Garden, while Kathy Griffin, Judd Apatow and friends will play Carnegie Hall this November as headliners for the 2015 New York Comedy Festival, announced late today. The festival site will relaunch on Tuesday with the updated slate for 2015, which will …
GQ’s Fall fashion spread for 2015 features newly incoming host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, South African stand-up comedian Trevor Noah. Just like any comedian, Noah hates most of the jokes he told a few years ago, so all of the backlash surrounding his old Twitter posts was …
Comedy Central is letting us know at the unofficial start of summer that The Daily Show will pass the reins to Trevor Noah at summer’s end, with a Sept. 28, 2015, launch date for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. See? Yeah. It’s happening. Even Jon Stewart is unamused.
The 33rd edition of Montreal’s Just For Laughs Festival will continue to cement its position as the world’s biggest congregation and celebration of comedy this July, with awards and performances heralding Dave Chappelle, Mike Myers, Kevin Hart, Patton Oswalt, Ellie Kemper and Armando Iannucci. The festival announced today they’ll be …
Mark your calendars: Aug. 6, 2015, will end Jon Stewart’s mighty reign as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Stewart announced his final date at the close of Monday’s episode. Roll the clip! Stewart had told Catie Lazarus two months ago that he wanted to leave the show …
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart happened to be on vacation last week when the network announced correspondent Trevor Noah would replace Stewart as anchor later this year. So Monday night’s episode was Stewart’s first chance to address the upcoming transition, as well as the backlash and the …
While a packed SXSW convention center ballroom listened last month to Jimmy Kimmel walk down the memory lane of his life and TV career, a group of foreign-born comedians in a smaller room gave a more global and increasingly more relevant take on what’s happening in America and the world …
Are you ready for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah? Comedy Central made it official this morning, naming Noah — a new correspondent on The Daily Show — to replace Jon Stewart as the show’s host after Stewart steps down later this year. Noah, a South African stand-up comedian who hosted …
Trevor Noah made his debut Thursday night as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the South African stand-up comedian let his presence be known immediately by tricking Stewart with a game called “Spot the Africa.” Interesting times to compare the perspectives of the lives of black …
