The Definitive Guide to Comedy
So, having just witnessed the end of Super Deluxe, we move on to the survivors in the online comedy video business, and it should come as no to surprise to anyone who has watched Wainy Days on My Damn Channel that David Wain has brought his Stella mates, Michael Ian …
If you click on Super Deluxe today, you'll notice that the site and most of its videos are now gone, dead and buried, save for five franchises that get forwarded along to a page within the Turner Broadcasting's Adult Swim universe. We knew this was coming for months, certainly, but …
Via Playbill, news is good for Mike Birbiglia's Off-Broadway one-man show, Sleepwalk With Me, good enough that he'll continue telling his uncomfortable stories through March 22, 2009. So if you want to see Birbiglia, you'll know where to find him. Also, a reminder that tonight, Ira Glass joins Birbiglia for …
Oh, Hello! Paramount Pictures announced today it'll make Freshman Roommates, a comedy movie starring Tracy Morgan and TJ Miller, and written by comedians John Mulaney and Nick Kroll — based on the premise that one of the many scam e-mails from an African prince looking to inherit his wealth is, …
MTV announced a slate of upcoming TV programming for 2009, and the young lads and lasses at CollegeHumor.com will get prime-time exposure on old-school televisions (they've been on new-school Internets for years already exposing themselves). As the dot-com's co-founder and editor-in-chief, Ricky Van Veen, put it: "MTV, drunk on profits …
In real-life, the New Zealand comedy music duo Flight of the Conchords won a Grammy this year and is up for another one in 2009. In their HBO show, however, Bret and Jermaine are still trying to catch a break as the second season opens. Funny or Die gets to …
Louis C.K.'s 2008 special is out today on CD and DVD, just in time to recalibrate both your holiday shopping wish lists as well as your Top 10 lists. I interviewed Louis C.K. back in September about "Chewed Up" as well as about where his career has taken him, and …
Yesterday, people wore shorts. Today, it's snowing. Am I in Las Vegas? Good guess, but no, this all has happened right here in Brooklyn (aka The Comic's Comic HQ). Yet another sign that up is down, down is up, and there must be news going on in comedyland. Let's catch …
Word from the trades this morning that Big Vision and Chambers Bros. have acquired the rights to the Cheech and Chong music catalog and will recycle some classic routines into a new film, Cheech and Chong's Smokin' Animated Movie. The Hollywood Reporter acquired these quotes from the duo, currently reunited …
Will Ferrell and his Funny or Die writing partner, Adam McKay, went online just a couple of hours ago to begin promoting Ferrell's limited run engagement on Broadway that celebrates the end of the Bush Administration, aka You're Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush. If you have …