Comedy

In the audiobook version of That Is All, the final book in John Hodgman’s gloriously detailed trilogy of fake…

When comedian and character actor Taylor Negron died back in January, his passing registered with a lot more people…

In a recent New York Times editorial addressing the outrage (and counter-outrage) over fellow comic and Daily Show…

Eddie Pepitone has a gift for predicting disaster. Much of his comedy album In Ruins (taking its name and much of…

There’s something fascinating about digging into the work of a comedian who was fired from Saturday Night Live. It…

While not a theme album exactly, Big Dumb Animal is a lengthy—18 tracks, 67 minutes—meditation on the various,…

If there’s any evidence that marijuana makes you more productive, comedian Doug Benson is Exhibit A. Case in point:…

100% Half Assed may be the debut comedy album from Ian Edwards, and the first to be released on Conan O’Brien’s new…

Lesser comedians than Randy and Jason Sklar would make more hay out of the fact that they’re identical twins, but it…

Less than a minute into his new album, Obsessed, Jim Gaffigan proclaims proudly, “I’m fat.” Jim Gaffigan, though, is…

The definitive Aziz Ansari facial expression has introduced each episode of Parks And Recreation since the start of…

About a third of the way into How Do I Land?, the debut album from Los Angeles stand-up Kurt Braunohler, he lays out…

On her last album, 2009’s fantastic Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome, Maria Bamford used her considerable skill as a…

Anyone familiar with the late comedian and provocateur Andy Kaufman should view a “comedy album” released nearly 30…

Kumail Nanjiani could easily be “that guy.” He could be the Pakistani guy, joking about his otherness in America,…

In 2010, Myq Kaplan had multiple channels at his disposal to prove his cleverness and fondness for…

Mike Lawrence peruses pop culture the way a vegan peruses a fast-food menu: with vigilance bordering on insanity.…

Pete Holmes would be the first to say that he’s not just a white guy, he’s the epitome of “white guy”; on an episode…

The gospel according to Chris Hardwick states that there are nerds, and there are nerdists. A nerd is everything our…

It takes chutzpah to name a debut Shakespeare, in part because it invites critics to complain that while subsequent…