You know what I said about female comedians being portrayed doing stand-up in TV commercials? Well, here’s a recent ad for The General, an insurance company, featuring stand-up comedian Erik Rivera doing stand-up about insurance. Roll...
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Congratulations to Bret McKenzie, one half of New Zealand music-comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, for winning Oscar this past weekend for his original song, “Man or Muppet” for The Muppets movie. That brings him that much closer to EGOT status. McKenzie previously has won Grammy with Flight of the Conchords, and has received several Emmy nominations for the FOTC HBO series. He just needs to produce something on Broadway now, right? Let’s watch the official video for “Man or Muppet.” Roll...
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Nick Griffin eats like a kid but wants to act like an adult. Can you help him? He’s a bachelor, people. “Which is a fancy way of saying I’m alone.” Roll the clip of Griffin’s recent appearance on Late Show with David...
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Some in the media made a big deal about Bill Maher donating $1 million to a pro-Obama Super-PAC, and yes, that’s something to make a deal about, but it’ll be more interesting months and years from now to see if anything comes from Maher performing a live one-hour stand-up special on the Internet, launching Yahoo!’s live comedy channel. If you missed it, then you can watch it below. It’s very topical. So watch it now rather than later. Because who knows what the politics of 2012 will be like later in 2012, or later than that. Roll...
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Ramin Nazer made his TV debut as a stand-up comedian the other night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Lucky the show went long. Or short. As it were. Anyhow. Here he is. Ramin Nazer,...
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