StandUp

There is no genre more near and dear to my heart than comedy. The skills necessary to make others laugh -- whether live and in-person or through a screen -- are a unique and beautiful combination that should be protected at all costs. Some artists are able to do so without leaning in to touchy subjects or cursing, while others go all the way to really earn that R rating. The tactics may differ, but the end goal is the same, to bring others joy through jokes. Many comedians see movies as the apex of a potential career,…

Let’s say you’ve got 8 people on one of your engineering squads. Your daily standup takes 15 minutes a day. That’s 75 minutes per week, or roughly 3750 minutes per person. You’ve got 8 people, so that’s 30,000 minutes each year for your team or 500 hours. That works out to about 12.5 weeks spent in daily standup for your team.If your average engineer is earning $75,000, then you’re spending about $18,000 each year on your daily standup (not to mention opportunity cost, which is a whole topic in itself). But if your daily…

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’re in a massive tent. People are walking in and out, chatting, spilling drinks. A mishmash of music pounds in the background. The crowd is wildly hungover or laying the foundations for tomorrow’s comedown. Perfect conditions for a comedian, right?“Some performers wouldn’t touch the festival with a bargepole,” says Charlotte Lang, who manages Glastonbury’s cabaret tent, where she’s been programming acts for a couple of decades. “It’s quite a Marmite thing.” But comedy can be the perfect escape for audiences. “It’s nice…

If you’re going to put a stand-up comedian into a big, climactic fight scene, it better be really funny. That’s just one of many rules you may not realize were in place before watching The Machine, a feature-length extension of stand-up comedian Bert Kreischer’s most famous routine. It’s a story about how the former Florida State University frat boy and prolific partier took a college trip to Russia, where he bumbled into confidence with the Russian mob and wound up helping some gangsters rob a train. It sounds enough…

Film: About my father (Lionsgate)Cast: Sebastian Maniscalco, Robert De Niro, Leslie Bibb, Anders Holm, David Rasche, Brett Dier and Kim CattrallDirector: Laura TerrusoRating: 2.5/5Runtime: 90 mins `About My Father`, with a screenplay by star Sebastian Maniscalco and Austen Earl, doesn’t feel much like a feature comedy. It is written like a lengthy stand-up comedy routine, with just the right pauses after every comedy set. Thankfully it’s not a monologue. There are other interesting players and acts here. This…

This project is the brainchild of serial inventor Dezso Molnar, creator of the G-2 flying motorcycle and the upcoming Streetwing flying car. Molnar teamed up to design and execute the Surfcycle with another West Coast innovator, Craig Calfee of Calfee Design, best known for his exquisite custom bicycles and other carbon fiber creations. The pair are working together on the Streetwing as well, among many other projects."I was spending so much time developing flying cars," Molnar tells us, "But getting pushback from people…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeChris Rock made a bold Oscars claim about Jada Pinkett Smith during a new comedy special.On Saturday (4 March), the comedian historically performed a live set for Netflix, titled Selective Outrage, during which he roasted Will Smith for slapping him at the Oscars in March 2022.However, he also used the set to make a claim about Smith’s wife, Pinkett Smith. According to Rock, the Girl’s…

An IRL meme from Touching Grass.Photo: Courtesy of Alex RubinInstagram’s meme makers are taking their talents to a surprising place: the stage. But more so than the static images they post, their shows  resemble stand-up comedy.Memers explained to Gizmodo how they translate online humor into IRL shows.“There are a lot of things that people laugh at online that they don’t laugh at on a screen live,” said Annie Rauwerda, who runs @DepthsofWikipedia on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, explained. “When you have this person up…

The British SUV manufacturer Range Rover which is owned by Tata Motors has always been regarded as the producer of some of the most opulent SUVs globally and numerous Bollywood and Hollywood celebs own a product from this brand. Recently two celebs have also welcomed the company’s one of the most popular models the Velar into their garages. These celebrities are popular standup comedian Zakir Khan and TV actress Avneet Kaur. a Also read: 10 DC Design cars & how they look in the REAL world: Maruti Swift to…