If you’re here, in my class, then you already know my story. Until I was 21, I’d never been to a party. And then everything changed. I went to a party, I learned the tricks, and yes, it was the first and last time I felt alive. Let’s begin. Congratulations! You’ve been invited to your […]
Continue ReadingNatasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher are not the first couple in standup to get married, but they are the first married couple to share a Netflix special together. As seen in the trailer for The Honeymoon Standup Special the three-parter includes standup by each of Leggero and Kasher, before teaming up in the third act. The […]
Continue ReadingComedian Hari Kondabolu has been voicing his disappointment in the harmful stereotypes he sees within The Simpsons’ character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon for over a half-decade, and on Sunday night the writers of the show finally gave a response to those accusations in the episode “No Good Read Goes Unpunished.” Kondabolu was understandably not pleased by this scene between Marge […]
Continue ReadingPod-Canon is an ongoing tribute to the greatest individual comedy-related podcast episodes of all time Here at Pod-Canon, we like to commemorate endings and/or milestones by traveling back to the very beginning to the kick-off episodes that launched some of our favorite podcasts. Sure enough, Earwolf’s wonderful political talk radio show Hard Nation appears to have ended […]
Continue ReadingCARDI B IS PREGNANT!!!! Also there was some live comedy. There episodes of SNL where the musical guest, for one reason or another, outshines the host. The best sketch of Larry David’s latest episode had more Miley Cyrus than him in it. But sometimes the musician is just more newsworthy. Usually in a bad way […]
Continue ReadingTiffany Haddish is produing a comedy series in development at HBO. According to Variety, Haddish is executive producing a series written by Xosha Roquemore (I’m Dying Up Here, The Mindy Project) and Danielle Henderson (Divorce, Difficult People) called Unsubscribed, which is described as “an examination of female blackness, beauty, and identity through a behind-the-scenes look […]
Continue ReadingAyo Edebiri is a Boston-born, Brooklyn-based comedian and writer. She wasn’t good enough for the Celtics but is making this comedy thing work. She’s in the sketch group Lo-Fi and currently works at The Rundown on BET. This week, Edebiri talked to me about finding absurdity in everyday events and how she got into comedy, […]
Continue ReadingBlack Panther star Chadwick Boseman makes his Saturday Night Live hosting debut tomorrow night with musical guest Cardi B, and the show released a round of promos this week to get you excited. In the above clip, Boseman is joined by Cardi Bi and cast member/Boseman’s new director Leslie Jones, and in the promo below, […]
Continue ReadingKevin Nealon dropped a brand new installment of his web series Hiking with Kevin today, and this time he’s joined on the trail by Bob Odenkirk. The two chat about cookies, Judd Apatow’s new Garry Shandling documentary, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, comedy vs. drama, parenthood, journaling, and Odenkirk’s days as a Saturday Night Live writer in […]
Continue ReadingThe comedy podcast universe is ever expanding, not unlike the universe universe. We’re here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. There are a lot of great shows and each has a lot of great episodes, so we want to highlight the exceptional, the noteworthy. Each week our crack team of podcast […]
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