When life gives her low-key anxiety, Aparna Nancherla makes lemonade. As a comedian and actor she has molded a successful career from her anxiety, depression, and general weirdness, gaining popularity by just being herself, neuroses and all. 2018 is shaping up to be a big year for Nancherla, who can currently be seen on Comedy […]
Continue ReadingJena Friedman heads to Adult Swim later this month with her new special Soft Focus, but in the meantime you can check out her standup set from last night’s Conan. Friedman reflects on how tough things have been for men lately and offers them some very helpful tips: “If you’re around a woman and she […]
Continue ReadingAli Siddiq starred in his own half-hour Comedy Central special back in 2016, and this month he returns to the network with his first hourlong special titled It’s Bigger Than These Bars. Comedy Central announced today that Siddiq’s special, which was taped at Texas’s Bell County Jail, will premiere Friday, February 23rd at 11:00pm. Here’s […]
Continue ReadingSince the infamous Trump photo controversy in May 2017, Kathy Griffin has had an extremely challenging eight months full of lost jobs, lost friends, death threats, and federal investigations, but in a new profile for The Hollywood Reporter today titled “Kathy Griffin: Can a Comic in Exile Come Back?” the standup got candid about the […]
Continue ReadingSeason 4 of This Is Not Happening premieres on Comedy Central this Friday with new host Roy Wood Jr., and the network gave us a clip from the one-hour premiere to get you excited. The theme of the first episode of “Filth,” so it’s only right that the show would include a story from famous […]
Continue ReadingKevin Hart’s Irresponsible Tour continues this year, and today, a pile of new tour dates were revealed. After the tour’s previously announced batch of dates wraps up in late March, the tour will make over 100 stops in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia throughout 2018 including Baltimore, Atlanta, Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, Denver, Vancouver, Montreal, […]
Continue ReadingIn addition to the eighth and final season of Portlandia currently airing on IFC, Fred Armisen has another comedy project coming out next month. Netflix just released the trailer of Armisen’s new special called Standup for Drummers, in which Armisen “explores a variety of topics including his inability to truly understand jazz, the subtle differences […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where comedian and Last Week Tonight writer Josh Gondelman stopped by to perform a five-minute standup set. Gondelman covers everything from Margaret Atwood to his adopted pug Bizzy to getting married to becoming more attuned to sexism, plus some other things he learned last year: “I had […]
Continue ReadingSince he started doing comedy, Tom Segura has been on the slow climb to success through silliness. With Your Mom’s House, the podcast he co-hosts with his wife/fellow comedian Christina P, Segura says the couple is simply “embracing silliness” and “just trying to have fun.” And despite some recent complaints from angry Cajuns and concerned […]
Continue ReadingOne of the best things about living in Los Angeles besides the weather and the crippling self-doubt is watching comics grow as comics, constantly out-producing their previous impressive efforts, and rightly reaping the accompanying accolades. It has been a real pleasure to watch Paige Weldon over the last few years, since I first saw her […]
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