The Definitive Guide to Comedy
VICE News Tonight on HBO gathered a group of New York City comedians and let them conduct their own roundtable discussion about how much fun — or not so much fun — it is to tell jokes to audiences now that Donald Trump is in power. Watch and learn from …
In case you missed it, HBO’s VICE News recently took a look at joke theft through the prism of an ongoing lawsuit by a Twitter user named Robert Alex Kaseberg, who alleges Conan O’Brien and his Team Coco staff on TBS stole jokes from him for use in his monologues. …
In case you missed it because you’re not Canadian, VICE Canada published a two-part series last week about the life of Carrot Top (Scott Thompson) onstage at the Luxor resort and casino in Las Vegas where he holds court with his trunks full of props and so much more, and …
Lance Bangs said talking to Clare O’Kane now is like catching Janeane Garofalo circa 1991. O’Kane started stand-up comedy in the San Francisco Bay Area, then moved to Los Angeles and fell into a house with other comedians. Which is how she stars in the new Viceland cable channel showcasing stand-up comedy houses …
Flophouse, the new stand-up showcase premiering next Thursday at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on Viceland‘s new cable channel, is actually available right now — as the TV network started by VICE that’s taking over the current H2 station on your cable/satellite/streaming dials — has decided to give you a sneak peek! …
It’s no secret that some of Saturday Night Live‘s most striking work in recent years has not come via live TV, but come alive via lightning-quick production of thrilling tributes to film via short films. Think of the Wes Anderson Halloween tribute “New Horror Trailer,” Louis CK as Lincoln, or Ian …
For The Onion‘s next trick, coming this Monday is a new video channel poking fun at VICE’s freelancers-on-the-edge brand of voyeuristic immersive journalism. As The Onion describes @EDGEtv: “Uncaged, Unaccountable, Fucked Up” Roll the clip!
You can watch part one of episode one of The Jim Norton Show now on VICE.com. Norton’s studio audience is full of fans, but he still manages to allow viewers to warm up to him with his humble self-deprecation about his looks and his show’s debut. He jokes about how …
VICE announced today that it’ll debut its newest talk show online, as The Jim Norton Show will air on VICE.com starting next Wednesday — July 23, 2014 — hosted by stand-up comedian and radio personality Jim Norton. Norton filmed this limited-edition webseries of a talk show earlier this summer in New York City, with …
Kurt Metzger may be the nicest and most reasonable person onstage and off, who simultaneously is joking about things and using language to which many strangers might take offense. Perhaps he truly is “White Precious.” That’s the title of his first hourlong stand-up special, which debuts tonight on Comedy Central …
