The Definitive Guide to Comedy
So you may have heard that Microsoft would pay comedian Jerry Seinfeld a gabunch of money (gabunch is a technical term meaning roughly $10 million) to help promote Windows and Vista and everything else Microsoft. Last night, the first ad debuted. It’s 90 seconds, which is an eternity in TV …
Does your comedy show include videos, songs, soundtracks, lights, or any kind of a set? Then perhaps you might want to consider how that all will work smoothly and not get in the way of the funny. If you have attended a show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in …
The Friars Club’s So You Think You Can Roast? contest tonight with a wild card audition today at Carolines. Voting continues online for the second round roast of George Takei. Future roasts will have hopeful comedians taking shots at Omarosa (Sept. 22) and Gary Dell’Abate (Oct. 6), competing for a …
Only a few days before Seth MacFarlane’s latest animated venture, his Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, debuts online Sept. 10 in Google Ads with an assist by Burger King. Two teasers went up on Seth’s YouTube channel. There also promises to be a Seth blog and Cavalcade newsletter. Judging from this …
Did you know that our foreign wars are costing us $3 trillion dollars? If Sarah Silverman asked you to help out with a financial contribution, would you? Watch this public service announcement Silverman shot for the Shoot the Messenger folks and "Friends of Foreign Wars" and see if she can …
Apologies in advance for the last-minute notice: This week is a busy one for new hourlong comedy special TV/DVD tapings, especially at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College here in New York City, where Robert Schimmel is taping his latest special for Showtime tonight, and Pete Correale, …
Louis C.K. is the funniest stand-up comedian working in America today. I’ve said it. Ricky Gervais has said it. Other people who know funny from funny have said and written it. And you, too, shall learn the truth on Oct. 4 when his latest special, Chewed Up, debuts on Showtime. …
Chris Rock’s new HBO special, Kill the Messenger, has posters up around the city and a couple of video teases, one of which opens quite autobiographically, with Rock saying: "I grew up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. I started out in clubs making $5 a night. Now I’m here playing the world …
The Daily Show is not the only faux news team in the Twin Cities this week for the 2008 Republican National Convention. Lizz Winstead brought her Shoot the Messenger crew from New York City to Minnesota, where they’re in the middle of a three-night run at the Parkway Theater in …
Various sources are getting their hands on what appears to be the script for Judd Apatow’s upcoming film about stand-up comedy, Funny People, starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen, among many others. Here’s an odd find from said sources: Apparently, Apatow has written in a cameo for Bruce Springsteen to …