One 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 […]
Continue ReadingNetflix is giving a bunch of standups a very literal 15 minutes of fame this year. As first reported by Vulture, the streaming network has added a round of quarter-hour standup specials for an untitled series set to debut sometime in 2018. Here are the 16 comedians who will be featured with their own 15-minute […]
Continue ReadingA lot of people know Geoff Tate from Doug Loves Movies. He is the “winningest player in the show’s history,” according to the podcast’s extensive fan wiki. In his three previous standup albums, Tate has carved out a niche as a cranky, thoughtful dude with a deep, abiding love for the television show Cheers. Tate […]
Continue ReadingKatt Williams views his live show as a conversation between himself and a room full of his friends, friends he’s made by touring the country and returning to cities again and again. In his new special Great America, which just dropped on Netflix, he opens with a masterful display of his particular art of conversation […]
Continue ReadingWhen I caught up with Anjelah Johnson she was at her home in LA, getting ready to head to the Bay Area to spend Christmas with her family before doing a stretch of eight New Year’s weekend shows at Tommy T’s Comedy Club in Pleasanton, just 25 minutes from where she grew up. For Johnson, […]
Continue ReadingWhen news broke last week that FX’s critically acclaimed comedy Atlanta would finally be returning for its second season, I marked the occasion by rereading one of my favorite profiles of Donald Glover, which was published back in August 2016. Speaking to Vulture about the show’s creative priorities, Glover said the following: “The No. 1 thing we kept coming back […]
Continue ReadingKilling time before the show with my feature act, eating Subway in some comedy condo somewhere, we’d play each other the bits that impressed us the most. I always played “Peanut Brittle.” It comes from Paul F. Tompkins’s 2007 album Impersonal. I imagine he called it that because the tracks are observations and not the biographical stories you […]
Continue ReadingTom Segura returns to Netflix next week with his second standup special for the streaming network. Titled Disgraceful, the special was filmed at the Paramount Theatre in Denver and follows his last special, Mostly Stories, which debuted back in January 2016. Check out the trailer above, and catch the rest when Disgraceful premieres on Netflix […]
Continue ReadingOver the years, Littlefield in Brooklyn has become a go-to spot for Monday night comedy in New York. It was once the home of Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal’s Hot Tub before the duo moved the show to LA. Night Train with Wyatt Cenac then filled the spot with a show that The New York […]
Continue ReadingRicky Gervais has two standup specials heading to Netflix. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streaming network has bought the rights to Gervais’s next standup special, following last month’s news that Netflix would debut a special from Gervais titled after his tour Humanity, which was taped in London last year. “I can’t wait for Humanity […]
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