comedy reviews

Saturday Night Live: John Mulaney & the Strokes, October 31, 2020

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2020

Well, after some less than stellar writing over the past couple of weeks, everyone at Saturday Night Live stepped up for townies, John Mula...

Chris Locke and Seán Cullen Prove Themselves as Two of Comedy's Sharpest Minds with 'In Horror!'

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2020

Wondrous comic minds Chris Locke and Seán Cullen have been making the most of lockdown times, inventing the alter egos Tony and Keith and i...

Saturday Night Live: Adele & H.E.R.

October 24, 2020

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2020

Adele only hosted instead of hosting and singing but was also able to please her audience during one specific sketch, and H.E.R. took full...

Saturday Night Live: Issa Rae & Justin Bieber

October 17, 2020

PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2020

In spite of Issa Rae's first-time-hosting enthusiasm and two strong performances by Justin Bieber, overall Saturday Night Live was rather o...

Saturday Night Live: Bill Burr & Jack White

October 10, 2020

PUBLISHED Oct 11, 2020

Bill Burr was a game and great host who had some good stuff to work with and Jack White's two performances were among the strongest in the...

Saturday Night Live: Chris Rock & Megan Thee Stallion

October 3, 2020

PUBLISHED Oct 4, 2020

It was all kind of surreal, watching Saturday Night Live stage its show before an actual, masked audience, in their usual studio 8H, instea...

Hannah Gadsby's 'Douglas' Is Hilarious, Even as It Gets Bogged Down by the Weight of Expectations

PUBLISHED May 26, 2020

Hannah Gadsby's latest Netflix special, Douglas, is rigidly controlled, in a way diametrically opposed to the organic build and flow of her...

'I Love Everything' Finds Patton Oswalt Operating at the Top of His Game

PUBLISHED May 19, 2020

A hall-of-fame stand-up comedian, Patton Oswalt gets the hilarious I Love Everything going with an interesting bit of foreshadowing. We en...