Video: What if Domino’s Pizza really took their focus group feedback seriously?
I'm heading to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in a long time this weekend to check... Read More »
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Taping Comedy Central’s “Mash Up” special: Swan song for Blerds, or potentially its phoenix rising
Earlier in the 2000s, a group of Chicago stand-up comedians began working together to make their careers a... Read More »
Comedy Central orders 7 additional episodes of “Ugly Americans”
While you were wondering if Sarah Silverman and Demetri Martin would get renewed, Comedy Central announced today it... Read More »
Perils of comedy on Twitter. Case study: Parallel thinking, topical; see Dane Cook, Aziz Ansari
Writing comedy on Twitter carries with it some of the same perils of performing comedy in front of... Read More »
NY1′s Pat Kiernan moderates a panel on Twitter and comedy, then shares what he enjoys about it
The two-day 140 Characters Conference in New York City ended its first full day of sessions yesterday with... Read More »
Glee auditions inspire comedians to post sincere, fake and sincerely fake videos
The new FOX series Glee has earned critical praise and a cult-like devotion from its first season fans,... Read More »
Dancing with the Comedy Stars? Pamela Anderson will host a Gala at Montreal’s Just For Laughs fest
This just in! The Just For Laughs Festival announced that British Columbia native Pamela Anderson, currently starring this... Read More »
IFC’s Dan Pasternack on what the cable channel’s rebranding means: more alt-comedy on cable TV
Dan Pasternack became IFC's VP of Development and Production in February, in a press release from the cable channel that... Read More »
Lizzy Caplan, Adam Scott & Martin Starr reveal how sexy vampire fad translates (or not) to the mummy
Remember when we used to be scared of vampires and not wanting to have sex with them? The... Read More »
1989 NYU film captures Chris Rock (and his mom!) as a young stand-up just before he got SNL
An old NYU student film by Michael Dennis, Who's Chris Rock?, surfaced on YouTube over the weekend and... Read More »