Amy Schumer's new sketch comedy series, Inside Amy Schumer, debuts tonight on Comedy Central -- though you already could have watched the premiere episode online (and uncensored) thanks to the cable channel. But first, get to know a little about what... [Read More]

After nearly a year and a half away, best friends and comedy partners Jenny Slate and Gabe Liedman brought back their web series Bestie X Bestie for a new episode for Funny Or Die's digital magazine The Occasional. Hopefully, there are more of these on the way, as the two are still really spontaneo... [Read More]

Comedy Central will kick off its second year of filming its new half-hour comedy special series, plainly titled The Half Hour, which replaced the network’s original 30-minute stand-up series Comedy Central Presents. All shows will tape in Boston Feb.... [Read More]

Comedy Central is continuing with its new series of half-hour stand-up comedy showcases, called The Half Hour (previously known as Comedy Central Presents). They'll tape in Boston, as they did last year, at Royale, from Feb. 26 through March 1, 2013.... [Read More]

New York has a lot of great weekly comedy shows and thankfully BlackBook made it slightly easier to navigate by highlighting five of the very best. Besides the above video about Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler's Hot Tub, there are videos below covering John Gemberling and Anthony Atamanuik's Tony & Johnny Show, Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman's Big Terrific, Joe Mande and Noah Garfinkel's Totally J/K, and The Stepfathers. [Read More]

Most gay comics either play stand-up shows to tiny audiences or mince about as caricatures in mainstream movies, doing more harm than good. In a 2007 Vanity Fair piece, the provocateur Christopher Hitchens infamously claimed that women aren’t funny (although he did give a pass to Jewish women and “dykes,”), a theory that was quickly debunked not only in rebuttals in Vanity Fair but by the success of films like Bridesmaids. So where is the Bridesmaids for gay men? [Read More]

When we asked John Hodgman if we would do a quick video interview with us backstage at SXSW, we had no idea what we had gotten ourselves into. In between his two sets at Esther's Follies on Monday night, Hodgman took us on an impromptu tour of the venue, and chatted with comedians Todd Barry, Kumail Nanjiani and Kyle Kinane along the way. He also gave us some valuable insights on the world of backstage cuisine. [Read More]

Hot on the heels of last week’s huge benefit show at the Beacon Theater in New York for the family of Greg Giraldo, comes a two-night celebration of the well-loved comedian– this time, it’s going down at Columbia University, Greg... [Read More]