The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The student is now the master? Former Splitsider writer (now Vulture Senior Editor) Jesse David Fox and his colleagues at New York magazine have acquired Splitsider. Since launching in 2010, Splitsider had been part of The Awl Network of blog sites, which recently ceased operations. Now it will “be integrated …
Lots of fascinating stuff comes out of Vulture’s new cover story interview with David Letterman, now almost two years removed from his reign on late-night TV. Take this excerpt, for example: There’s this idea that reducing Trump to a punchline could make him seem harmless or helps to normalize him. …
Vulture, New York magazine’s entertainment platform, debuted a new podcast series today that’s all about jokes. Jesse David Fox hosts Good One: A Podcast About Jokes. Fox’s first guest, Jim Gaffigan, talked with him about a specific bit in Gaffigan’s newest Netflix stand-up special, Cinco, that jokes about how good-looking …
Late Night with Seth Meyers debuted on Feb. 24, 2014, but the Meyers edition of NBC’s late-late talk show — following in the footsteps of David Letterman, Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Fallon — didn’t start to find its own footing until he first ditched the stand-up monologue to open the …
In a time when comedians and comedy fans argue about who stole jokes from whom and what’s parallel thinking and are there any original jokes still, it’s a perfect opportunity to look back on our past and celebrate the comedians who blazed the trails before us. Which is exactly what …
Did you know that Retta currently is pitching networks on her own late-night TV talk show? Or that at least one network is interested in the possibilities of a late-night show fronted by Jen Kirkman? Or that Margaret Cho and Iliza Shlesinger would love to do it, too? So would lots …
Chris Rock enjoyed a big weekend of press and publicity in advance of his already critically-acclaimed new movie, Top Five. Mo Rocca interviewed Rock for CBS Sunday Morning. And Frank Rich interviewed him for New York mag’s Vulture. Both are great. In both places, Rock drops the hint that’d he …
Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome named their musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates. So, wouldn’t you know, someday John Oates of Hall and Oates would find out about them. What happened next? Micucci and Lindhome share that story, lovingly animated by the team at UCB Comedy for their series, “Animated …
