June 26, 2015
No one was less happy about the Supreme Court's decision legalizing gay marriage than the American Family Association's Bryan Fischer, who Tweeted, "From a moral standpoint, 6/26 is now our 9/11".
June 23, 2015
Brooks Wheelan was fired from Saturday Night Live about a year ago after being on the show for one season, and it still hurts.
June 22, 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 visited Gotham, The Cellar, The Creek and the Cave and the 92nd Street Y.
June 15, 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 visited Gotham, The Cellar, The PIT and UCB.
June 11, 2015
Taran Killam was a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night and talked about getting a rare action role on Saturday Night Live. Blazer is an […]
June 10, 2015
The hype surrounding the new Lonely Island flick is already huge. The trio - made up by Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone - who graced Saturday Night Live for years with unbelievably popular digital shorts are now making a new movie with executive producer Judd Apatow.
June 8, 2015
Emerging Talents Feel More Like Headliners at First Annual Second City Break Out Festival in Chicago
This weekend NBC and Chicago's Second City held the first ever "Break Out Comedy Festival" to give a showcase to diverse emerging comedic talents, or as host Ron Funches put it- not white people. The event included some panels and talks but the highlight was a two night comedy showcase held at Second City's Up Comedy Club. Two nights of outstanding performances included stand up, sketch work, solo work, characters, and improv hosted by The Daily Show's Al Madrigal on Friday night, and Ron Funches who you know from the hit NBC series Undateable on Saturday night.
June 8, 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 […]
May 31, 2015
In a recent interview with Maxim magazine, Pete Davidson opened up about everything from when he first started working open mics at the age of 16, to when how his father died as a first-responding firefighter on 9/11.
May 29, 2015
The great comics have the ability to turn tragedy into comedy. On paper, a set that touches upon a mother’s descent into dementia and an elderly father’s inability to control his bowels doesn’t seem to be a laugh-a-minute affair, but Jim Breuer owns it and makes it work.
May 25, 2015
This year, we forgot to put together our new "Summer Reading List" in time for memorial day, but we've got something much better than a new list. We've put all of our old lists in one place including our 2012 and 2013 lists put together by our team of writers, our 2014 list put together by Liberty Hardy, and our Christmas Gift List of great books by comedians put together by Andrew Farignoli. You can order each book by just clicking on them. Enjoy and have a great summer.
May 17, 2015
If the internet wasn't talking about the Louis C.K. monologue today, this is the sketch that would be getting all the internet buzz.