The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The best things in life are free. The best things in life are free to those who don’t place monetary value on things, or to those who wait, or to those who just know how to find them at the right place and the right time. Wait. What? what. This. …
Smoking will kill you, but it still looks cool and gives you ready-made excuses. Tom Papa knows this and must convey this to all generations, as he did Monday night on Conan. Papa also reminded us of something Groucho Marx once said to a previous generation, about neither wanting nor …
Look. I don’t know if you’re going to see the movie Grudge Match starring Sylvester Stallone and Robert DeNiro, or even if you should, but I do know that Joey “Coco” Diaz makes for some comic relief in the film — along with Kevin Hart — and that Diaz has …
The Christmas shopping season starts earlier and earlier, and Sommore thinks opening the stores on Thanksiving was downright gangsta. She performed on Friday night’s Arsenio, and explained that her shopping season extends from Thanksgiving straight through the following Tuesday. Is that off the chain or what? Sommore says what, y’all. …
FX’s new animated series, Chozen, was going to be on FXX but has received an upgrade/promotion/transfer to the mothership cable channel for its launch on Jan. 13, 2014. The series stars Bobby Moynihan as a gay white rapper reclaiming his life and career after a prison term. The rest of …
When Chris D’Elia told Conan O’Brien a couple of weeks ago that he had made a friend and a fan in Justin Bieber, D’Elia wasn’t joking. Well, D’Elia is a comedian and actor, so he jokes for a living. Which is why the Biebs likes him so. And he wasn’t …
John Goodman has hosted Saturday Night Live for 13 times. Thirteen times! And it was just Friday the 13th! How could we be so lucky? And yet, hard not to believe that this episode of SNL would not be overshadowed by news about casting for SNL, stunt cameos on SNL, …
For the past several years, Saturday Night Live always has pushed back against criticism about its lack of racial/ethnic diversity by claiming that it’s about the content of its comedy, and not the color of its cast members — and besides, Nasim Pedrad is Iranian. Well, Pedrad is bound for …
ABC passed on the sitcom, Bad Management, this spring. But now it’s posted the full 22-minute pilot episode online. David Spade, who starred in the pilot alongside Sharon Horgan, Alan Thicke and Rachael Harris, told his fans last night via Twitter, “I think it’s actually pretty good.” See for yourself. …
This is the funniest Christmas video you’ll see today, if not all season. Billy Eichner, host of Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street on FUSE, welcomed Amy Poehler to join him in New York City’s Flatiron district to see if anyone would sing Christmas carols with them. For a dollar. Any takers? …
