The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Hannibal Buress helped open up for Arj Barker last weekend at Comix, and he had some great jokes about the magic of the Courier font, imagining Jesus on weed, buying white babies, and wondering whether you can have tribulations without trials, or pillaging wihout raping? Of couse, he closed with …
Here is another outtake from last week’s Live at Gotham, it’s Owen Benjamin!
Here is an outtake from last week’s Live at Gotham that features Mary Mack. And no, stop thinking she’s someone else. She’s Mary Mack. That’s her real voice. And this is how she reflects on visiting New York City…
Just watched a rebroadcast of HBO’s 1995 Young Comedians Show (it’ll also air at 10 p.m. Pacific tonight), hosted by Garry Shandling from the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, and featuring a cast of, would you believe, Dave Attell, Eric Tunney, Dave Chappelle, Anthony Clark and Louis CK. Quite …
The people at Just For Laughs in Montreal decided to recap some of their shows in video highlights, which means you can get a feel for what you saw, or what you missed. Although they don’t give all of the New Faces face time (hmmm), but the Just For Laughs …
Hey, comedy fans! How many of you were like me in wondering, "Did stand-up comedy die with George Carlin?" Oh, wait. You mean none of us, not even me, ever asked that, let alone entertained the thought for a second? Well, then, you’ll love not reading this story on MSNBC.com …
Did you miss Eugene Mirman‘s recent performance on Late Night with Conan O’Brien? Did you see it, but would like to relive it again? Either way, hooray! Mirman has uploaded his performance for all of us to enjoy…some classic bits he has done around the New York City club and …
What would you do for a Klondike bar? It’s a longtime popular radio/TV commercial jingle turned contest, in which you can make a video showing what you’d do and win $100,000 for it. Here’s the entry by Front Page Films, otherwise known as filmmaker Oren Brimer, Matt McCarthy and Pete …
The New York Times today profiled Tim and Eric (Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim) in advance of tonight’s season 3 debut of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! on Adult Swim. Don’t know if I’d call it "Nightmare TV," but there certainly is a bizarre aesthetic to their approach …
Louis CK is having his way in the U.K. this summer (well, actually not having his way every night, if you keep up with his blog, but as he already told you, a comedian learns much more from bombing than from killing). And now, he’s pleased to report the cities …