The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The folks from Chicago-based Big Dog Eat Child bring back Toby Jones to explain it to you again, since more than 1.2 million of you watched him claim last month that he'd store anything. Anything! So, here you go, ad number two for Jones Big Ass Truck Rental & Storage…
Thanks to CC Insider for posting this earlier today, but why no IDs to share the love with all of the comedians pictured here with fake funny names? I can safely identify six of the stand-up comedians done up in cartoons for the upcoming new issue of MAD magazine. How …
I didn't get the chance to know Bob Lazarus during my brief stint covering the Boston comedy scene, so I shall defer to others in remembering him this week. His battle with leukemia began after I had left Boston for New York City, so I followed the news and fund-raising …
It's no secret that anytime Glennis McMurray and Eliza Skinner get together onstage and ask for an audience suggestion, they give birth to wonderfully improvised I Eat Pandas musicals, usually with the accompaniment of pianist Frank Spitznagel. You can see this for yourself fairly regularly in New York City (next …
Remember that original joke up for auction at eBay by a staff writer from The Onion? Bidding closed this afternoon, topping out at $365. Reading the more than 100 Q&As about the auction? Free!
This just in: The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman's bid to extend his lengthy recount fight with Democratic challenger, satirist Al Franken. Franken, who entered the recount down by 215 votes out of more than 2.9 million cast on Nov. 4, currently holds a …
By almost any indication, the 50 First Jokes show on Saturday night was a rousing success. A packed lounge at Webster Hall. An advance write-up in the New York Times. In just one of the four groups, we heard Jesse Popp reveal some of Mayor Bloomberg's new laws taking hold …
Front Page Films, aka filmmaker Oren Brimer and comedians Matt McCarthy and Pete Holmes, have cracked the final five for Doritos open call contest for a Super Bowl commercial. Their ad, "New Flavor Pitch," also features Glennis McMurray and Jay Bois. The crew recently made the finals of a similar …
So much to do today, this week, this year, that I'm living in that Jim Gaffigan joke wherein I'd much rather crawl back in bed and take a nap. Do you feel that way? If so, please join me in this time out of sorts, sit back and enjoy some …
Sunday's Arts section of The New York Times gives the full, fluffy profile treatment to Kristen Wiig, anointing her the new reigning female comedian of the moment on Saturday Night Live, with a quick sidebar glance at the other women on the show: Casey Wilson, Michaela Watkins and Abby Elliott, …