The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A year ago, most comedy clubs had shuttered for the pandemic, leaving stand-ups to go to whatever lengths to find live audiences, from parks to rooftops and anywhere in between where they could set up a microphone, an amplifier, and spaced seating. This summer? We haven’t outlasted the COVID-19 pandemic, …
And now Whitney Cummings and Taylor Tomlinson are joining forces for a co-headlining buddy tour for October 2020. “The Codependent Tour” kicks off Oct. 2 in California, then heads to Colorado before a slew of dates on the East Coast. Tickets go on sale tomorrow for the general public. Presale …
Whitney Cummings guest-hosted Tuesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, and after reminding us of her D.C. roots with some jabs at her hometown football team and the need for the District of Columbia to get Constitutional representation, she devoted the back half of her monologue to a “Roast …
In a four-night, special event at 10 and 10:30 p.m. ET/PT running Tuesday, June 2, through Friday, June 5, House Hunters: Comedians on Couches will find seven comedians delivering their own colorful commentary on classic episodes of HGTV’s House Hunters. The House Hunters: Comedians on Couches celebrity lineup is led …
Look. I hope this isn’t a spoiler, but you’re going to see what Whitney Cummings looks like as a sex robot, and you’re going to see her and her robot likeness together onstage for half of this Netflix special. Can you touch it? No. But you can look all you …
BOOM BOOM BBQ, the SXSW announcement is here! Read it and laugh… South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals (March 10-19, 2017) has announced the initial list of SXSW Comedy Festival participants. This year, the SXSW Comedy Festival celebrates its tenth edition. Over the last decade, the festival has hosted hundreds …
There’s a moment in the beginning of I’m Your Girlfriend, the new hour stand-up special from Whitney Cummings (and her first for HBO), in which she stops to examine the audience members in the front row for her taping. “I’m shooting my HBO special. No big deal. This has been …
You can look back on a calendar year from many different perspectives and points of entry. Your memories flash in front of you. And then a website comes and calculates how other people viewed your year for you. Or one slice of your view. Such is 2015bestnine.com, which takes an …
You’ve never seen anyone onstage quite like Bridget Everett, and after this week, you’ll never seen anyone up close and personal as you have Everett. The cabaret queen closes out the third season of Inside Amy Schumer tonight with a musical number, performs her hit Off-Broadway show “Rock Bottom” four …
Lauren Graham would love to host a late-night TV talk show, even if, as she explained to Conan O’Brien on Tuesday’s Conan, she might go crazy if she did it for 22 years like O’Brien has. O’Brien replied that the job takes on a “Groundhog Day” (as in the movie) …
