The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Joe List began his stand-up career in Boston in 2000 after graduating from high school, rising up the ranks in Boston’s heralded comedy scene before moving to New York City. He has toured with the likes of Louis CK and Nick DiPaolo, and since 2013 has co-hosted the popular podcast …
Hannibal Buress has attracted more than 1,177,515 views of his newest comedy special since releasing Miami Nights for free on YouTube two weeks ago. Buress filmed the special last August in Miami, shopped it around, and intended to give it a big-screen premiere in March at SXSW in Austin. But …
Dave Chappelle turned a local pavilion in his Ohio town into his personal performance venue during the pandemic, and right out of the gate last month, he addressed the Black Lives Matter protests that sprung up in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the knees of the …
Smosh became the first popular YouTube channel in 2005 and has remained among the most popular channels on YouTube ever since. It would take almost 15 years, however, before Smosh followed other YouTubers by embarking on its first live tour in February 2020, which ended just as the coronavirus pandemic …
Sam Morril and Mark Normand both had hourlong stand-up specials on Comedy Central. For their follow-ups in 2020, though, neither could convince Comedy Central, or anyone else, to broadcast them on regular, cable or streaming TV. So they each went to YouTube — after self-producing their tapings. They connected over …
The folks at Time Life have launched an official Robin Williams YouTube channel today to celebrate the late great comedian who died in 2014. There’s only a handful of clips on it as of today, including bits from his 2002 special, Live on Broadway, about golf and Koko the gorilla, …
Elliott Morgan is one of the members of The Valleyfolk, a crowd-funded Internet comedy troupe that won the inaugural season of NBC’s Bring The Funny in the summer of 2019, winning $250,000 and an invitation to perform at the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. That’s a long way …
The Valleyfolk, a crowd-funded comedy troupe that rose from the ashes of the popular YouTube channel SourceFed last year, and propelled by its fans won this summer’s inaugural Bring The Funny competition on NBC, stunned fans by revealing that they fired one of their four members a week after that …
Hulu has an unconventional documentary coming out in August about The Amazing Johnathan, but Steve Byrne beats it to the punch with a heartfelt look at the comedian and magician who has stayed alive despite telling fans and loved ones five years ago that he was about to die. Byrne’s …
If you haven’t yet treated yourself to the first season of Cobra Kai on YouTube, better get to it before season two drops next week. The series wonderfully spins the whole saga of The Karate Kid around and around, making you question who really is the hero and who is …
