Rob Reiner's early career in comedy stretched from San Francisco improv to 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' to 'All in the Family.' ...

If we lived in a just world, Kate Berlant and John Early would be the most famous, successful comedy duo on the planet. So that’s the reality they created for themselves in their new Peacock special, ...

In between sincere covers of pop, disco, R&B and rock songs, John Early performs “ranting musings.” That’s how he describes his new comedy special “Now More Than Ever,” which is coming to HBO on ...

Early in Now More Than Ever, a cover of a concert documentary of a cover band featuring a comedian covering millennial jadedness. Photo: Greg Endries Directed by Emily Allan and Leah Hennessey and ...

The OG ‘SNL’ cast member told Lamorne Morris, who’s playing him in a film, to focus on being the ‘older Black guy’ who has to fight for roles. Playing a real person is never easy. When they’re alive ...

Last year comedian John Early took his comedy to a new level. His HBO special Now More Than Ever combined his charismatic story-telling with his love of pop classics into a The Last Waltz-inspired ...

John Early’s new special, Now More Than Ever, opens with artifice. The camera is positioned behind a door, and we spy (voyeuristically) on Early transferring some lemon squares from a plastic ...

Not much is funny about those terrifying early days of COVID, when the world was cloaked in an apocalyptic doom and the president was telling us to inject bleach. But in “Stress Positions,” Theda ...

For Austin comedy fans, Moontower Comedy Festival is comedy Christmas, and this year the organizers have managed the unimaginable – a 12th consecutive year of outdoing themselves. If I’ve done my math ...

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