Joe DeRosa’s new one hour Comedy Central special You Let Me Down premieres tonight at midnight. Filmed at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever, the special showcases DeRosa’s gripes with achievers, Tinder, golf, and the state of Arizona, just to mention a few. But beyond his signature opinionated complaints, DeRosa opens up about his own […]
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Timing is everything in comedy. Including the decision when to record your album/special and when to release. Which really came into focus sitting down to watch Bill Burr‘s newest hour-plus for Netflix, Walk Your Way Out. As I wrote in my review for Decider: In his latest Netflix special, Bill Burr: Walk Your Way Out, […]
Continue ReadingAfter doing comedy in Boston for a year, Jen Kirkman made the move to New York City, where from 1998 to 2002 she performed anywhere she could get stage time, including laundromats, lofts, and a spot in Long Island dubbed “The Worst Comedy Club” by Jerry Seinfeld. Last year Kirkman returned to NYC’s Bowery Ballroom […]
Continue ReadingSeason 3 of Hack My Life, truTV’s comedic exploration of life hacks, premieres tonight at 10PM. Co-hosts Brooke Van Poppelen and Kevin Pereira have already taught the masses clever, time-saving ways to make an omelette, clean their gutters, and quickly chill a warm beer. This season promises even more tips, tricks, and shortcuts to save […]
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It felt perfectly fitting that, during one of the worst and most embarrassing weeks in US history, I got the opportunity to have a brief chat with John Cleese, the comedy icon who offered this bit of wisdom to Jon Stewart back in 2014: “When you get old, you know nothing matters, really. Very little matters. […]
Continue ReadingCristela Alonzo couldn’t help noticing, and stopping to notice, the massive Netflix billboards promoting her first stand-up hour for the streaming platform, Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy, which premiered today. Just as I couldn’t help myself from telling Alonzo last week how I happened to notice Whole Foods in Austin was hiring someone new to write for […]
Continue Reading“A lot of therapists don’t write their own material,” said Jonathan Katz, onstage with David Wain at the Orpheum Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, cracking up the audience while also summing up his 90s animated series, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, and its current, live iteration. Twenty years after the series premiered on Comedy Central, those […]
Continue ReadingIn 2011, comedians/writers/improvisers/friends Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi were left without a place to speak on important social justice issues after the show they were correspondents on, InfoMania, went off the air. Luckily the freedom of the internet means that nobody is left without a place to speak their minds, so Gibson and Safi teamed […]
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