As if Norm Macdonald wasn't getting enough backlash over his controversial comments about the #MeToo movement and his defence of Roseanne Ba...

Norm Macdonald's new show Norm Macdonald Has a Show hasn't even come out yet, and he's already facing major backlash. In a new interview, he...

Last month, Louis C.K. came out of hiding to perform at the Comedy Cellar and reportedly make a rape joke after admitting to sexual miscondu...

Sacha Baron Cohen's excellent Who Is America? recently wrapped its first and only season, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Among...

After teasing that they had been back at work on new material this past May, Tenacious D have lifted the curtain on a new album and accompan...

Marlon Wayans puts Kevin Hart away, no one is happy about the return of Louis C.K., if you welcome Sinbad he'll overstay, Annie are you ok,...

Louis C.K. practically disappeared after admitting to sexual misconduct allegations last fall. Then, apropos of nothing, he stopped by for a...

While Rick and Morty hasn't even launched into its 70-episode renewal yet, a new animated comedy from series co-creator Justin Roiland and w...

Louis C.K. has been out of the spotlight since admitting to sexual misconduct allegations last fall, but he returned to the stage for an una...

In its brief seven-week run, Sacha Baron Cohen's Showtime series Who Is America? managed to piss off a large swath of American politics, wit...

Canadian comedian Shaun Majumder has announced that he will not be returning to This Hour Has 22 Minutes this fall.   He made the announce...

While he's best known as a comedian, actor, director, producer and television host, Jon Stewart can now add goat herder to his resume after...

Comic Aparna Nancherla recently nixed a round of upcoming shows, and she has now pulled out of all of her upcoming tour dates.   Among the...

Seth Rogen may have found a new side hustle after being named as the voice of Vancouver's transit system last week, and it appears that the...

After being floated as a suggestion to replace Morgan Freeman as the voice of Vancouver's transit announcements, Seth Rogen has been confirm...

The latest beloved sitcom to get the reboot treatment could be Frasier.   According to Deadline, star and executive producer Kelsey Gramme...

They've plotted it, they've confirmed it, and now Kiwi joke folksters Flight of the Conchords have finally revealed the release plan for the...

Jonah Hill was one of the notable attendees at Kanye West's wild Wyoming ye listening party, and he defended the controversial rapper during...

South Park wrapped up its 21st season last December, and now Comedy Central has revealed when viewers can expect to see the next batch of ep...

Andrew Phung, who stars in the Canadian comedy Kim's Convenience, claims he witnessed a Toronto police officer make a racist comment while o...

Having completed a monstrous run of live shows earlier this year, stars from the CraveTV original series Letterkenny are gearing up to round...

Great news for fans of Da Ali G Show — Sacha Baron Cohen has secretly filmed an entire new show. Last week, teasers emerged about a new coll...

There comes a point midway through David Letterman's appearance on Norm Macdonald Has a Show when things have gone so ridiculously off the r...

Second City revue She The People, featuring an all-female cast and crew, is an overdue counteraction to the predominant male comic viewpoint...

Now based in Los Angeles, Michigan's Brad Wenzel is a wry, observational, one-liner comedian whose Sweet Nothings is low-key but immensely e...

If the sketch comedy record is a little uncommon in an age when new standup specials are released every few hours of every single day of eve...

"We're in Theatre B!" became a loud but self-deprecating catch phrase in Chris Distefano's set. Though he's a muscly guy from New York, Dist...

There are few comics that truly throw out the conventions of comedy like Saturday Night Live writer Julio Torres. Torres's show My Favorite...

Before the debut of Queer Eye, Jonathan Van Ness's podcast Getting Curious was cancelled by its network in 2017. Now picked up by Earwolf, y...

Hosted by Baron Vaughn (pictured) and Open Mike Eagle, this standup show featuring mesmerizing interludes of rap is based on the term "New N...

Roy Wood Jr. is having a great ride. He is, after all, a Senior Daily Show Correspondent. He's also had a crack at the elusive sitcom as a c...

When Hannah Gadsby walked on stage at the lovely L'Olympia Theatre in Montreal to perform her groundbreaking hour Nanette for the final time...

Ari Shaffir is no longer allowed to call his live storytelling show "This Is Not Happening," since he gave the hosting duties for the TV ver...

Anthony Atamanuik shouldn't still be doing this, and on some level I believe he'd agree with me — it should never have come this far. He's n...

"I've got the body of a Gryffindor, but a Hufflepuff soul." Gary Gulman couldn't have described himself any better: at six-foot-six, he is t...

At the Kill Tony podcast recording at Montreal's Just For Laughs, a guy named "Kruppa" is called to the stage to do a minute of standup. He'...

If you were playing a game where you had to list similar comedians, you'd never say that Michael Ian Black (pictured) and Nick Thune go toge...

With bizarre combinations of words like "maiden's oesophagus" and "Chernobyl with priests," Dylan Moran's comedy inserted perfectly crafted...

Some political comics believe that taking down bigoted authorities and deconstructing current events in their act is their social and moral...

As censorship standards have loosened and swearing has become more commonplace, the taboo of "The Nasty Show" is not what it was when it beg...

Musical comedy gets a bad rap. People often think musical comedians just end up in their lane because they're not gifted enough to do one or...

Tom Green is Ottawa-born, so that means his French is not bad, and that's how he starts his set at La Maison Theatre. It's a cartoonish disp...

David Cross is a very good standup comedian, and deserves at least a minor pantheon spot in modern comedy for his innovations in sketch (Mr....

Montreal is incredibly lucky to have the Just For Laughs festival. In July, you have the rare chance to see a show of world-class comics wit...

In March, Netflix released James Acaster's Repertoire, a fittingly titled series that introduced the world outside of the U.K. to James Acas...

An intellectual stoner's dream, Reggie Watts is the essential answer to the question you didn't know to ask: "What would happen if you combi...

A tribute to toast, a "tremendously wet" hurricane hits the East coast, Conan O'Brien celebrates 25 years as the best host, Paul McCartney r...

White people burn their shoes, this one guy fends off many chews, an anonymous columnist leaves few clues, a book curiously called Lincoln a...

How about that Canadian summer, eh? The hottest summer in history! We're doomed! And fall's coming. Will it be unusually hot too? Yes it wil...

Marlon Wayans puts Kevin Hart away, no one is happy about the return of Louis C.K., if you welcome Sinbad he'll overstay, Annie are you ok,...

Penguins are upright, Trump's tweets are uptight, R2 falls on hard times and rabbit flights cross lines, plus plenty more in this funny week...

A teacher intervention, some Harvard pretension, a dog interruption and mayonnaise disruption are all part of this funny week in funny tweet...

Adhering to a rich tradition of adolescent outsiders, Matthew Abraham Groening spent his formative years devouring weirdo art and dreaming o...

Imagine a dog fronting ELO, Alex Jones is told to go, Pineapple Express told Walter White no, you can't impress a date with Quentin Tarantin...

A news cycle about Bigfoot's penis, social media gets between us, Melanie tends to her gardenias, Tom Cruise still peddles his keenness and...

Ah, the summer of 2018. Or, as some who spend their days researching the melting polar ice caps are calling it, "the last summer in the hist...

Someone lost a mango, the American president and his ex-lawyer tango, vampires try to put on a fang show, how low Elon Musk can go, and much...

Will Forte is delighted at the notion that his heroically strange comedy might follow in the tradition of The Far Side, by esteemed cartooni...

The American president misspeaks, sometimes your baby leaks, Richard Marx exhibits some cheek, Tom Cruise refuses to creak and much more fro...

"I'm not a charisma machine," Neal Brennan admits to Exclaim! "I'm not dripping with charisma like many of my friends are. But I do have can...

If Maria Bamford could go back in time to meet herself as a teenager, she says her younger self would be shocked that she hadn't died.   "...

In the weeks following Robin Williams' shocking and tragic suicide on August 11, 2014, his family and a mourning public tried to make sense...

In February 2017, comedian David Cross and his wife, actress Amber Tamblyn, celebrated the birth of their baby daughter, Marlow Alice. But t...

A lemon on a roll, a job search for a bowl, a ghost conundrum is rather droll, neighbour Gary takes a toll and more from this week in funny...

To be terrified by a banana, to be hypocritical about Montana, to be confused by Elton John's piana, to darkly ponder Toy Story's vox humana...

It's time to stand up for standup comedy in Canada.   Canada's only exclusive stand-up and sketch comedy label, Comedy Records, has teamed...