“I’m here to teach” becomes a mantra of sorts for Tiffany Haddish in her latest special for Netflix, Black Mitzvah. Newly forty, Haddish took the opportunity […]
To hear Rebecca Delgado Smith tell it, her podcasting abilities are borne of a kind of superpower. She opens each episode of The Alarmist podcast informing […]
Early on in her series for Netflix, Tiffany Haddish mentioned a conversation she’d had with drag queen and comedian Flame Monroe when she went to see […]
Writer and comedian Sabrina Jalees is finally taking her first regular turn in front of the camera—on CBS’ Carol’s Second Act, debuting this September on the […]
“They just don’t have it, so we shouldn’t trouble them about it because they’re not physically equipped with it.” This was the general sentiment about a […]
“It would appear that putting female comics together is a religious experience,” comedian and moderator Ophira Eisenberg quipped to a sold-out crowd for the Nantucket Film […]
Mindy Kaling’s love letter to late-night television Late Night doesn’t hit theaters until June (in NY and LA on the 7th, nationwide the following week), but […]
There was a point on the Sunday of Boston Calling’s 10th edition that, likely unintentionally, gave me a way to articulate my full experience with the […]
One week after Boston Calling, the area is getting another festival geared toward attracting comedy fans. Who’s going to be on it? Well, unlike the splashy […]
Even as New England music and comedy festival Boston Calling enters its tenth iteration, It’s always nice to know that even the most seasoned performers can […]
I had forgotten how much twelve year old boys curse. But Gene Stupnitsky’s Good Boys, an ode to the complexity of middle school friendships reminded me […]
Film-to-television adaptations are a tricky business. They shoulder the burden of staying true to their source material, while also creating enough new story to create a […]
To hear her tell it, the inaugural Black Women in Comedy Festival, coming to Brooklyn this weekend (February 28th-March 3rd, 2019), is really just a dream […]
With a few short weeks until South by Southwest kicks off, the long-running Texas festival has finally released its comedy lineup. Eight days of offerings […]
Last week Boston Calling, New England’s signature music and entertainment festival, released the lineup for its landmark 10th edition. Fanfare was showered over returning music acts […]
Laughs were had. Truths were revealed. And a little ballet was performed. At this weekend’s Vulture Festival, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend creator, writer, and star Rachel Bloom sat […]