June 7, 2016
Variety has just released the 16th iteration of its 10 Comics to Watch series in preparation for next month’s Just For Laughs Comedy Festival in Montreal. […]
May 24, 2016
Lady Dynamite has been a long time coming and, it’s funny. Maria Bamford’s new semi-autobiographical Netflix series is well crafted, and about as fun as anything you've ever seen on television. It won't be experienced by as many people as saw Trainwreck this year, and that's a shame, because its not only fun and funny, it's also silly and poignant, and even important.
May 4, 2016
Patton Oswalt’s latest hour-long stand-up special, “Talking for Clapping” is astute, pointedly hilarious and as strong as you’d expect. It was released streaming to Netflix April 22nd. It has more to do with children’s birthday parties than death. Oswalt, a prolific constant within comedy, tweeted to promote the special as well as condolences for the loss of Prince. Hours later he lost his wife and the mother of their young daughter for reasons unknown. Her name was Michelle McNamara.
April 30, 2016
His latest special, It’s About Time, debuts Sunday on Netflix. New Yorkers can also catch Gary live at The Gramercy Theater May 21 and he will be touring throughout the country this summer and fall. We met up with Gary at The Stand Comedy Club in Manhattan to nerd out about the ins and outs of comedy, itself.
April 18, 2016
The fourth season of “Inside Amy Schumer” will return to Comedy Central on April 21st and the channel has released one of its many previews and trailers.
March 8, 2016
Big Jay Oakerson is Ready to Be America's Next Comedy Rock Star, and It's About Time
March 2, 2016
On Tuesday night, Governor Chris Christie inadvertently became a meme with his bewildered "what have I done?" face during Donald Trump's speech.
February 21, 2016
Seeso, NBCUniversal Digital Enterprise’s new ad-free streaming comedy channel, has declared Sunday, February 21 the ”Day of Ha.”
February 15, 2016
The Writers Guild of America 2016 writing awards were handed out over the weekend. The guild breaks up the ceremonies into two events, one on each coast. In the age of social media, the announcement of winners often gets to the left coast well before the event begins, destroying the anticipation and dulling the proverbial shine of the event. Legendary screenwriter Elaine May managed to save the day with her insight and wit, playfully mocking role of the writer in Hollywood. “Then someone told me there’s going to be a red carpet...Excuse me, no designer is going to give writers clothes!”
January 20, 2016
The whole world has been focused on Bill Cosby since a clip from Hannibal Buress’ show went viral reminding society that Cosby had a big ol' closet full of rapey secrets.
January 18, 2016
Another week and plenty of Late Night shows to choose from. Here’s your guide to comedians hitting up the late night talk shows for this week, January […]
January 14, 2016
Patton Oswalt feels like he's in the wrong decade.