The Definitive Guide to Comedy
⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Through the sheer force of population, India’s numbers are boosting their stand-up comedians to become among the most popular on YouTube. But none of them are as thoroughly Indian nor as thoroughly global as Vir Das, and he has the International Emmy award to prove it. But that award …
There’s a new episode of “The Set Up” from Team Coco Originals, and it’s the 12th in an ongoing series, so a great time as any to check in with the webseries in which J.P. Buck, the longtime comedy booker and producer for CONAN, sits down with stand-up comedians to revisit their …
A mash-up of Zoom shows? That’s the special? As I wrote in Decider: Das’s premise doesn’t seem on the face like it’ll offer much. He asked Zoom viewers each night what’s the first thing they’d do when the world re-opens, and then riffed off of their answers. And then you …
Vir Das almost broke through in a broadcast primetime sitcom in America this year, starring in a backdoor pilot spinoff episode of Fresh Off The Boat on ABC. ABC executives said this year they weren’t ready to move forward with his spinoff, but in the meantime, Das is showing off …
Vir Das got America’s attention with his first Netflix special, last year’s Abroad Understanding. Filming it in a small theater in New York City, then cutting it together with footage of him performing the same material in an arena in India, we learned that Das is a comedian to listen …
OK. So I’ve only sat down to podcast with 28 of the comedians performing this week so far as part of the 2017 Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. But that’s a start! Each of these fine, funny folks regales me (and now you) with inspirational stories about how they …
Variety has done it again, teaming up with Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival this summer to toast 10 up-and-coming comedians who the trade magazine sees as future superstars. If they’re not already well on their way, that is. The 10 Comics to Watch will be feted July 27, 2017, at …
Amazon cut a deal with 14 stand-up comedians from India for new specials to expand its global reach with Prime Video. But Netflix has perhaps the biggest comedy star from India already in Vir Das, who just released his first special for the streaming platform, Abroad Understanding. He shot the …
The most intriguing thing to me about Vir Das performing this routine on Conan isn’t readily apparent just by looking at this clip. But when I tell you that Tuesday night’s Conan also included Hank Azaria as a guest, then you’ll probably want to know, as I did, whether Azaria stuck around …
Americans may know Aziz Ansari, Hari Kondabolu or Russell Peters, but Vir Das is the biggest Indian-born comedian and Bollywood actor back home, where he hosted up to four shows at once on Indian television. Das first came to America for college, and he’s back now on an American tour …
