Adrienne Truscott’s “Asking For It” still, after all these years
by Adrienne Truscott won multiple awards when she took her one-woman show about rape jokes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including honors for “Comic Originality” and …
Month: June 2016
Bill Murray to receive 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
The Kennedy Center announced today that it’ll award Bill Murray the 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Said Murray in a statement: “I believe …
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s declaration of love: His Best Score acceptance speech for “Hamilton” at the Tony Awards
Lin-Manuel Miranda and his improvised comedy hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme have scaled even greater heights on Broadway, first with Miranda’s semi-autobiographical In The Heights, …
Eddie Vedder and Judd Apatow sing a duet to Garry Shandling using Shandling’s own words, at Bonnaroo
Judd Apatow and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder were equally full of surprises this weekend at the Bonnaroo music and comedy festival in Tennessee. Apatow …
Episode #97: Greg Giraldo biographer Matt Balaker
Matt Balaker is writing a book about Greg Giraldo; scratch that, he’s writing THE book on Greg Giraldo, as there hasn’t been a proper biography …
R.I.P. Gary Hood
Anyone who came through Hyenas, and later Laffs, came to know and love “Hoodie.” Gary Hood, a comedy mentor and the booker at Laffs Comedy …
Watch Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel interrogate you in VR 360-degree 3D
Funny or Die has launched into the 3D world of 360-degree Virtual Reality with this first sketch, in which Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel play …
Tom Papa on Conan
Tom Papa returned to Conan on Thursday, and said if you really want to be scared about where the world is heading, just think about …
Richie Moriarty sings “Alexander Hamilton” from the hit musical Hamilton, via 14 different impersonations
The hit Broadway musical Hamilton will hit peak cultural status this coming weekend with the Tony Awards, and New York City comedian Richie Moriarty pays …
Comedy Central will Roast Rob Lowe in the summer of 2016
This just in! Now that Rob Lowe’s The Grinder sadly got disbarred from FOX’s primetime schedule, that leaves his summer schedule open for Comedy Central …