The Laugh Button’s best comedy albums and specials of 2018
Upon starting this list and without much effort we were able to quickly ramble about 100 comedians that put out an hour since December 2017 ticked past us. This is not including all of the half-hour specials and 15 minute ones that were also released. It’s a lot of stand-up comedy to consume via TV, […]
Variety announces its 10 Comics To Watch 2018
Every year around this time the folks at Variety announce their 10 Comics To Watch. It’s a list of up-an-coming comedians at the early stages of their career. Some are just starting to get TV credits, some might’ve just put out a comedy album or half hour special. The point of the list is for […]
Netflix will drop “The Comedy Lineup” on July 3rd
Netflix announced its plans to air a series of 15 minute stand-up comedy sets from up-and-coming comedians called The Comedy Lineup. The 8 comedians that made up part 1 of the series gathered in New Orleans recently to tape and now we’ve learned that they’ll be released on July 3rd, just in time for you […]
Netflix to launch 15-minute comedy special series for emerging comics
Courtesy of Mindy Tucker When it comes to stand-up comedy Netflix it trying to do something different again. In addition to releasing the lion’s share of stand-up specials in 2017 (averaging 1 a week) they also took an experiment with launching The Standups by taking 6 great comedians and giving them half hour specials and […]
“Saturday Night Live” adds three new featured players and seven new writers
As is pretty customary to do around this time of year, Saturday Night Live announced some additions to its roster with seven new staff writers and three new featured players. First the writers… Sam Jay, Gary Richardson, Erik Marino, Andrew Dismukes, Steven Castillo, Claire Friedman, and Nimesh Patel all join the staff. We’ve had the […]
Sam Jay to tape her first comedy album in NYC on September 21st
Sam Jay is on a tear right now, the comedian just returned from Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival where she was selected as one of the fest’s coveted New Faces this past year. She also taped a Half-Hour for Comedy Central set to air in the next few weeks. To add onto all the great […]
Watch a teaser for the new season of Comedy Central’s Half-Hours
On September 15th, the new season of Comedy Central’s Half Hours (recently renamed Comedy Central Standup Presents) will drop (comedy specials “drop” right?). The network released this teaser to give you a sneak peek of all 13 comedians in action. As we previously reported, the scheduled 2 specials will premiere back to back at midnight […]
Comedy Central announces dates for its new round of Half Hours
A while back, Comedy Central announced its class of comedians getting half hour specials on their newly re-branded Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents (that’s the 3rd re-branding if you’re keeping score at home). Those half hours were taped at the end of the Spring and now the network has released the schedule of when the half […]
Comedy Central announces list of comedians taping half hour specials this year
Every year Comedy Central selects a handful of up-and-coming comedians to tape half hours for their series of the same name. It’s a big right of passage for comedians as it’s a great milestone feather to put in their caps. This year’s list of names is no different as it features much-buzzed about names as […]