I’m not a big fan of comedy classes. I think anybody who is starting out and wants to learn should save their money and just watch one of Brian Regan’s specials. Each one — including Nunchucks and Flamethrowers, which dropped today on Netflix — is a near perfect blueprint on how to tell jokes. He […]
Continue ReadingHari Kondabolu first aired his beef with Simpsons character/stereotypical caricature Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Kondabolu called Apu’s voice “a white guy doing an impression of a white guy making fun of my father.” Apu has always been personal for Kondabolu: an insult to his immigrant parents, a lazy joke for […]
Continue ReadingMaria Bamford’s Lady Dynamite returned to Netflix with its second season last Friday, and it’s turned up the absurdity on Maria’s world even higher. Now with flashes back to 1987 Duluth and flash forwards to Maria creating a meta version of Lady Dynamite itself, audiences get a deeper look into the various personalities in Maria’s […]
Continue ReadingJonny Sun released his first book this year: Everyone’s a Aliebn When Ur an Aliebn Too. The book is an illustrated account following the character at the center of Sun’s Twitter account, an alien named Jomny on a never-ending quest to make sense of humanity (and himself). The message and tone of the book are […]
Continue ReadingWhether he’s playing an iconically nerdy sitcom dad, surprising and/or delighting audiences with his onstage vulgarity, or directing films, Bob Saget has one goal in mind: he just wants to entertain. In terms of entertainment, he’s closing out 2017 strong. His new standup special Zero to Sixty just dropped today, nine new episodes of Fuller […]
Continue ReadingWhether it’s as a freak and/or geek, a caterer, or a senior security architect, Martin Starr is best known for one of his roles in three of the most well-received comedies of this century. But between those shows, which somewhat surprisingly includes a nine-year gap from Freaks and Geeks to Party Down and four years […]
Continue ReadingJudd Apatow calls it “hilarious, oddly moving.” Entertainment Weekly says it’s “remarkable, fascinating, totally unexpected.” Even Anthony Jeselnik skipped the jokes for a rare minute to say, “This film is a hilarious, humanizing, and shockingly intimate portrait of a comedian we all previously thought unknowable.” The film they’re referencing is Gilbert, a new documentary about […]
Continue ReadingI was patched into a conference call with comedian Chris Fleming, who was curious as to why our interview was even taking place. “I got an email that said Splitsider wanted to check in on me. It sounded like you guys were concerned, like a friend at a party,” he said. “Oh no, where is […]
Continue Reading“Sense of humor” is often cited as one of the top three personality traits that people look for in a partner, and it’s probably just as important that they laugh at your jokes as it is that you laugh at theirs. Finding that quality probably wasn’t as much of a problem for Emily Axford and […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been a year since I last caught up with comedian Kathleen Madigan and to be honest, it was long overdue. Madigan, a 30-year comedy veteran, is currently in the process of preparing her Netflix special Bothering Jesus for album release and gearing up for Boxed Wine & Bigfoot, a 30-city tour that kicks off […]
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