March 21, 2017
That is to say, the show covered everything from A(ngela Merkel) to Z(ebras). It will all make perfect sense if you happened to catch the March […]
March 14, 2017
The one obvious focus for that category is the many and variegated items an enterprise known as Samsung makes for our never-ending pleasure, depending on what […]
March 6, 2017
Let me start this article with the second part and then circle around to the first, so that we can get this Caesar business out of […]
February 28, 2017
That is to say, of the government. I’m sure all of you enlightened or, at the very least, wheelbarrow-trainable readers out there remember the lesson from […]
February 27, 2017
Late night comedy is coming in like a lion during this last week of February and first week of March.
February 20, 2017
First things first, John Oliver has treated us to another excellent edition of Last Week Tonight. Despite the order used in the above title, it was […]
February 13, 2017
It's a funny Valentine's week from all the late night hosts. It starts out with plenty of late night comedy to choose from. Have your DVRs ready.
February 9, 2017
Live Stand Up Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from […]
February 7, 2017
If you're anything like the rest of America, you're going to have a Super Bowl hangover from drinking, eating and gambling way too much.
January 26, 2017
Live Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to […]
January 19, 2017
We’re about to enter an age of political satire the quality of which has never been seen before. With Donald Trump set to take office this […]
January 19, 2017
Live Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to […]
January 6, 2017
Comedian Dave Hill is one of those select few who can truly refer to themselves as a “Jack-of-all-trades.” Hill is a successful comic who hosts his […]
December 28, 2016
The old school Kings of Late Night are all gone, and 2015’s freshman hosts are now the upperclassmen, and this year there’s a new man in […]
December 22, 2016
These are the news stories that kept every comedian busy on Twitter, that kept the writers’ rooms for every daytime and late night show buzzing, kept […]
December 20, 2016
There were some outstanding comedy albums released in 2016, and these ten are our favorites. A couple of our picks are audio versions of specials, but […]
December 15, 2016
This week we add Mike Lawrence to our Up Next series, just as he is about to pack up his New York life and head west. […]
November 27, 2016
Variety reports that a new tell-all book about The Daily Show, titled The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History, reveals that back in 2012, […]
November 24, 2016
Live Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to […]
November 16, 2016
Live Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to […]
November 15, 2016
Please keep in mind, that when I say done, I do not mean to imply that the host of Last Week Tonight is headed off to […]
November 13, 2016
Back in 2013 John Oliver pleaded to Donald Trump to run as the Republican nominee in the next election. John Oliver got his precious wish and […]
November 10, 2016
Live Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to […]
November 8, 2016
For those of you (all of you?) who may be scratching your heads in puzzlement or, possibly dry scalp, I took the title of my piece […]
November 1, 2016
A while back, I titled a review of a John Oliver show, “John Oliver Takes Us to School,” since the main topic was charter schools. I’m […]
October 27, 2016
Live Comedy in New York City This Week: New York features some of the best live comedy in the world every single night, from Manhattan to […]
October 25, 2016
As it turns out, this piece is not an essay about the least comical of the Marx brothers, but a roundabout way of introducing the main […]