Comedians

W hen Morgan Jay was cast on a prime-time TV show, he thought he’d finally gotten his big break.  A musical comic since 2007, Jay was sure his 2019 multi-episode appearance on NBC’s Bring the Funny would take his career from long nights and low pay to ticket sales and maybe even the hour-long comedy special of his dreams. While singing about the intricacies of modern dating and strumming along on guitar made fans of judges Chrissy Teigen and Kenan Thompson, it didn’t even “move the needle” on his career,…

Undoubtedly one of the greatest comedic actors of our time is Jim Carrey. This stretches back to his beginnings in the sketch comedy space to becoming a verified movie star in the ‘90s and ‘00s, and continued recently when the actor made a rare exception to do a sequel for 2022’s Sonic The Hedgehog 2. As Carrey turned 62 years old on Wednesday, January 17, fans from all around took to social media to share their favorite moments from the actor, and now I want to dust off his entire filmography! Jim Carrey is a real gem…

The 81st Golden Globes, which took place January 7th at The Beverly Hilton Hotel, was a memorable night for many celebrities. While Cillian Murphy was awarded Best Actor for Best Performance in a Motion Picture in a Drama for his portrayal of J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer, Lily Gladstone won Best Actress for her role as Mollie Burkhart in Killers of the Flower Moon.However, the night was far from ideal for the ceremony’s host, comedian Jo Koy, who received backlash—as well as another, unofficial award for the…

In early January, comedian Katt Williams went on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast and took aim at Cedric the Entertainer for stealing “my very best joke.” The bit in question — which involved a pantomime of driving with music blasting — was first performed by Katt in a 1998 appearance on ComicView, then reproduced by Cedric (according to Katt) for his set in Spike Lee’s The Original Kings of Comedy. Cedric called the accusations “revisionist history” on Instagram. We’ve been down this road many…

An artificial intelligence-driven comedy special has attempted to resurrect comedy genius George Carlin‘s signature humor, 15 years after he died in 2008 of heart failure. Following the special’s release, the comedian’s daughter responded and said that “No machine will ever replace his genius.” The hour-long special, titled George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead, is a product of Dudesy, a podcast run by AI and curated by humans. Chad Kultgen and Will Sasso host the podcast and YouTube show, and allow the Dudesy AI to…

Actress and comedian Tiffany Haddish embodies the ultimate rags to riches story. You may know her from her many stand-up specials, or films like “Girls Trip” or “Haunted Mansion,” or her Apple TV series “The Afterparty,” but her road to stardom hasn’t been a parade of laughs. Haddish’s father left when she was a child, and after her mother suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident, she was put with her siblings in foster care. While there, her social worker took notice of her comedic talents, and encouraged her to…

You’d think Elon Musk, the second-wealthiest person in the world, would have bigger worries than whether or not strangers on the internet find him funny.Yet despite the long list of business concerns demanding his attention — making self-driving cars, launching reusable rockets, implanting microchips in monkeys’ brains and, as of last fall, running Twitter — Musk seems desperate to add “comedian” to his portfolio.The billionaire has hosted “Saturday Night Live” and guest starred on “The Simpsons.” He once considered…

Image: Ashton GallagherIn the world of pop culture art, few artists are as precise and detailed as Ashton Gallagher. His works are so gorgeous, so evocative, so effortlessly excellent, his paintings are regularly mistaken for photos. But they’re certainly not photos. Gallagher puts painstaking time into creating his paintings, and not only is he bringing a new group of them to Los Angeles this week, he’s let io9 in on the process behind one of the pieces.“Mini Portraits V” opens May 12 at the Gallery 1988's Pop-Up…

Image: UniversalIt’s the most wonderful time of the year: awards season, or more specifically, the courting period of awards season where studios drop wonderful behind-the-scenes samples of the past year’s best movies to drum up FYC hype. Sure we’re not the ones actually nominating stuff for awards, but it’s nice to reap the benefits anyway.The latest benefit being that over the weekend, Indiewire shared the complete script Jordan Peele wrote for his sci-fi wonder Nope as part of the movie’s awards season push. While…

What’s the best venue for a talk show with your friends? For actor and comedian Kevin Nealon, it’s on the trail. Nealon, known for his roles on “SNL,” “Weeds” and “Happy Gilmore,” created “Hiking With Kevin,” a digital series in which he invites his famous pals to hike on L.A. trails and chat about their lives. “Pull up those Spanx, take your protein pills and why don’t we go take a hike?” he says in his opening. Guests have included Jack Black in Griffith Park, Marie Osmond in Newbury Park and Michael Keaton in Will…