Day: July 23, 2012

Help comedian/husband/father Caleb Medley, shooting victim from Aurora massacre

Help comedian/husband/father Caleb Medley, shooting victim from Aurora massacre

Posted by | Jul 23, 2012 | |

This is what aspiring stand-up comedian Caleb Medley looks like on his home page. But this (right) is what Medley looked like today, lying in a coma in University Hospital in Aurora, Colo., with a gunshot wound to his eye and head. Medley, 23, was one of the dozens of victims of the massacre that played out during a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises early Friday. He attended the screening with his wife, Katie, who is due to give birth to their first child, a son to be named Hugo, today. Neither mother nor impending baby were...

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Meet the New Faces of Montreal’s Just For Laughs, Class of 2012

Meet the New Faces of Montreal’s Just For Laughs, Class of 2012

Posted by | Jul 23, 2012 | |

This is the list the show business industry and the comedy community has been waiting a full year for…Montreal’s Just For Laughs New Faces for 2012! These are the up-and-comers plucked from New York City, Los Angeles and points in between to be given the biggest spotlight they’ve ever had, in front of agents, managers, casting people and other Hollywood types that can take their careers to the next level. I’ll have much more on this soon enough. For now, though, peruse the names and congratulate those you know and love. NEW FACES David Angelo Ron Babcock Mike Burns...

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Meet Me In New York: Emily Heller

Meet Me In New York: Emily Heller

Posted by | Jul 23, 2012 | |

What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may be Hollywood, but New York City is where comedians are born funny, become funny or arrive to thrust their funny upon us. I think we should meet some of these people. This is a recurring feature, a mini-profile of newcomers, up-and-comers and overcomers of New York’s vibrant comedy scene....

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Remembering Matt Foley: Chris Farley’s “motivational speaker”

Remembering Matt Foley: Chris Farley’s “motivational speaker”

Posted by | Jul 23, 2012 | |

Hear the name Chris Farley, and what image pops into your head of the late great sketch comedian? Farley jiggling it next to Patrick Swayze as dueling dancers in a Chippendales audition? “Da Bears” Superfans member most likely to have a heart attack? Tommy Boy, perhaps? Well, la-dee-frickin-da! None of those Saturday Night Live or movie characters ever lived in a van, down by the river. None were able to make such a lasting impression in their debut that they would appear eight times on SNL. None of those characters were motivational speaker Matt Foley. On Friday night’s Late...

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Comic book villains take an improv comedy class

Comic book villains take an improv comedy class

Posted by | Jul 23, 2012 | |

I’d say 2012 is the year of the superhero movie, but that would be insulting to all of the other years of the 21st century dominated by superhero movies. Instead, focus on this fact: Every comic-book superhero has to face a villain, and each of these villains speaks in witty tongues. How do they do it? And how would they fare in an improv comedy class? That’s the subject of this video from Jest (a recently new side venture from the folks at CollegeHumor), which finds Magneto, Loki and other villains joining other would-be improvisers at a comedy class...

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