June 16, 2015
Alfonso Ribera may have been the Tap Dance Kid on Broadway, but Aziz Ansari was a tap dancing super star in his own neck of the woods when he was growing up. Not just any tap dancing kid-- a tap dancing electric sliding genie kid.
June 15, 2015
It’s Monday again and there’s a full week of late night coming down the pike. Here’s what’s on tonight. Aziz Ansari on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon […]
June 12, 2015
According to Billboard.com, playing Madison Square Garden in New York is a landmark moment for a comedian, an achievement that few stand-ups have earned. In […]
May 25, 2015
Jeffrey Gurian is a writer and comedian in New York who loves to Jump Around. Follow his regular column, right here, to find out what’s happening in comedy, and who Jeffrey Gurian ran into this week in and around New York. This week, Jeffrey reports from The Soho Film Festival, Gotham Comedy Club, The Stand, The Actor's Temple and More.
April 22, 2015
Aziz Ansari is putting his next project together and working with someone he's very familiar with.
April 20, 2015
Jeffrey Gurian is a writer and comedian in New York who loves to Jump Around. Follow his regular column, right here, to find out what’s happening in comedy, and who Jeffrey Gurian ran into this week in and around New York. This week, Jeffrey reports from Comedy Juice, and New York Comedy Club.
March 23, 2015
Jeffrey Gurian is a writer and comedian in New York who loves to Jump Around. Follow his regular column, right here, to find out what’s happening in comedy, and who Jeffrey Gurian ran into this week in and around New York. This week, Jeffrey reports from Comedy Juice, The Comedy Cellar, The Stand and more...
March 3, 2015
Aziz Ansari was on a long flight and came up an idea for a movie, and decided to pass time by tweeting out his screenplay.
March 2, 2015
It's the last week of guest hosts for the Late Late Show before James Corden begins.
February 21, 2015
Aziz Ansari went on Tumblr to post a memorial for his friend Harris Wittels who worked with him on "Parks and Recreation" as a writer and co-executive producer. Harris passed away on Thursday at age 30 from what police called an apparent overdose.
February 1, 2015
Jeffrey Gurian is a comedian and writer in New York City. He spent the day with Brian Volk-Weiss, president of Comedy Dynamics. The interview has been reproduced in its entirety below.
January 30, 2015
Aziz Ansari became one of the few comedians who have ever sold out Madison Square Garden last October.
January 12, 2015
Aziz Ansari was planning on spending a nice Sunday evening watching the Golden Globes Awards.
January 8, 2015
Last night Nick Kroll went on Kimmel to talk about the final season of The Kroll Show. It's hard to believe that at the height of the show's popularity and only three seasons in, that the guys would call it quits.
December 28, 2014
The heart of stand up is of course working the clubs, and the culmination of working all those club dates is the comedy tour. We picked six tours that everyone was talking about this year. These five single acts were the hot tickets this year, and of course we couldn't talk about great tours without bringing up Funny or Die's Oddball comedy tour, which brought together the biggest names in comedy on stages across the country. We picked six standout tours but you will pick which was the biggest, the best and funniest tour of the year. Vote below!
December 19, 2014
You may have heard that 2014 was the greatest year in comedy, in the history of all years in comedy. And it's true, 2014 was a giant year for comedy. Giant tours, huge specials, incredible albums, and more than a few great books. But who had the biggest year of 2014?
December 17, 2014
Aziz Ansari was named the Variety Magazine Power of Comedy Award winner at a ceremony last week to benefit cancer research.
December 2, 2014
PubLIZity broke big news today. The upcoming season The Kroll Show will be the third and final season of the show. The critically-acclaimed sketch series was the source of the world's greatest comedy sketch--Too Much Tuna. Season Three premiers on Tuesday January 13 at 10:30pm.
November 15, 2014
Bob's Burgers is one of the most critically acclaimed comedies on TV, winning the Emmy for outstanding animated program in 2014. The show is known for its great writing and characters, who wouldn't be nearly as great without the impeccable voice casting behind the animation. Unlike most animated shows, all the actors all voice their characters together, which may also have contributed to the vitality of the series. But who are the voices, and where do you know them from?
November 1, 2014
You thought Halloween had become lost forever to the sexy cop, the sexy boxer and the sexy mailperson. No, there's still creativity out there, you just have to look for it. We found 20 people who decided that the scariest thing they could be this year-- was a stand up comedian.
October 7, 2014
Aziz Ansari showed up for the Late Show with David Letterman in a badass suit, talking about dating a chef, so he's living large.
October 6, 2014
Monday offers plenty of choices for late night comedy. Please choose carefully.
September 16, 2014
Nasim Pedrad did an appearance on Conan last night and talked about her awesome and very popular impression of Kim Kardashian.
June 25, 2014
An all-star lineup has been announced for this summer’s “Funny Or Die Presents Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival 2014.” Last year's 15 city tour was so successful that this year's events are being greatly expanded. 21 dates of comedy kicks off on August 8 in Tampa, Florida, and concludes on September 21 in Austin, Texas.
May 7, 2014
The Just for Laughs Comedy Festival- the Godfather of the Comedy Festival Scene- released this year's line up and it's looking like another comedy grand slam.
April 10, 2014
Set aside April 23rd to the 26th and book a flight, because the 3rd Annual Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival in Austin promises to be everything you ever hoped a comedy festival would be.
July 13, 2012
You already know Aziz Ansari from his huge standup career, and from shows like “Human Giant” and “Parks and Recreation” and the movie “30 Minutes or […]