Career-wise, comedian, actor, and musician Tawny Newsome is having a very diverse year. She’s a recurring standout guest on some of comedy’s best podcasts, starred in Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, can currently be seen on BET’s The Comedy Get Down, and is wrapping up a music tour with Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls, a band whose […]
Continue ReadingThe 2017 season of Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents comes to a close tonight at midnight with a half hour from Denver’s Adam Cayton-Holland. Adam is a founding member of The Grawlix, the comedy trio behind truTV’s Those Who Can’t. In addition to standup and acting, he’s also an avid birdwatcher and author of the upcoming […]
Continue ReadingFelipe Torres Medina is an alien of extraordinary ability, which is the US government’s way of saying he’s a writer (he’s from Colombia, not Tatooine). If you’re in New York, you can see him on the UCB show The Concrete Jungle all through October. Check out his writing on McSweeney’s, BuzzFeed, and more on his website. […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been almost two years since Donald Trump hosted Saturday Night Live, but the shock of Lorne Michaels actually inviting him still hasn’t worn off. Yes, he had hosted in 2004 back when he seemed to be a mostly harmless reality TV blowhard, but this was after he called Mexicans rapists, made a horrific menstruation […]
Continue ReadingWhile learning to write ad copy I was told that the best way to reach the most people is to keep the content at a 6th or 7th grade reading level. I was reminded of that advice while talking to comedian Christina P, who describes her meaning of life/philosophical musings podcast, That’s Deep Bro, as […]
Continue ReadingThough it pulled in over $200 million on a $20 million budget, Jake Kasdan’s raunchy 2011 comedy Bad Teacher is nobody’s idea of a masterpiece. It’s the kind of movie that cable networks use to pad out their schedules when they have nothing better to run. The Cameron Diaz vehicle never even got a proper […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to our series On the Verge, where our contributors highlight comedians they feel are ready for their next big break. Whether they’re already working in television or still waiting to land their breakout gig, these are just some of the comedians we’d like to see more of over the coming years — ideally with a show, film, or […]
Continue ReadingWelcome to our series On the Verge, where our contributors highlight comedians they feel are ready for their next big break. Whether they’re already working in television or still waiting to land their breakout gig, these are just some of the comedians we’d like to see more of over the coming years — ideally with a show, film, or […]
Continue Reading“Jolly” and “optimistic” aren’t descriptors you’d readily associate with your average hardened veteran comics, but then again, JB Smoove has never been an average comedian. The energetic, frenetic funnyman who rose to fame using his entire body as his instrument on the Def Comedy Jam stage has become even more of a household name after […]
Continue ReadingThere’s no shortage of confusing behavior going on in the entertainment industry. At this stage, the job description for becoming a celebrity might as well include something about carrying on in ways that nobody can understand. Comedians are generally the only ones we can turn to in order to make light of such conduct, but […]
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