The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Want to talk Last Comic Standing with one of its "potential" (ahem) finalists? Esther Ku is offering a live chat on her site at 10 p.m. Eastern once tonight’s semifinals show from Vegas ends. I’ve already warned Ku to watch out for the crazies! Related: Ku was a guest last …
After a week off, Wainy Days returned this week with a new episode, and David Wain has plenty of star casting help, including Lee Majors as his NSFW dad. Also Sarah Clarke and Xander Berkeley. Women continue to fall prey to Wain’s quirky, NSFW charms. This week, it’s "Rebecca." Look …
Comedy Central’s upcoming Reality Bites Back debuts on July 17. It’s a game show spoof of reality show contests. Meta meta. Michael Ian Black hosts. Who’s going to play? Kyle Cease, Chris Fairbanks, Jeff Garcia, Red Grant, Tiffany Haddish, Bert Kreischer, Mo Mandel, Donnell Rawlings, Amy Schumer and Theo Von. …
For fun, I clicked on Super Deluxe to see if they’re still around. Guess what? They are! And they just today finally got around to uploading Dave Hill’s dance video, co-starring David Rakoff and featuring Martha Plimpton. Love the Band-Aid!
The People’s Republic of Komedy brought an independent, DIY attitude to the Seattle comedy scene — before their arrival a few years ago, comedians in Washington state had to deal with either the mainstream clubs or one-nighters in a rotating series of bars around the Seattle area that would give …
Would you think an article describing Zach Galifianakis as "ramshackle" would be quite so positive? Ain’t journalism grand? Speaking of grand journalism and comedy, the trades love their lingo, and Variety’s recent story on the stand-up comedy scene lumps Galifianakis in with a group of "second-tier yuksters," and says comedy …
After performing three sold-out shows at Radio City Music Hall (that’s 18,000 comedy fans), Eddie Izzard had a hotel rooftop party to celebrate with both his U.K. and U.S. representatives Sunday night and into Monday morning (including a birthday cake for his U.K. manager, Chiggy!). Izzard flew back to London …
Which Today Show personality is trying her hands at stand-up comedy? Al Roker? Good guess, but no. Matt Lauer? Despite his girlish hands, it won’t be him. Didn’t you read the headline on this post? It’s Ann Curry. Here is photographic evidence of Curry with Gilbert Gottfried, and no, they’re …
In the coming year, you’ll see three of Seth MacFarlane’s animated projects on the TV (Family Guy, American Dad, Cleveland!) and an additional series online — "Seth MacFarlane’s Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy." But not just anywhere online. It’ll be on Google’s AdSense! Really. Which means it’ll be on my site? …
Is it too early in the morning to ponder hot dogs? How about mini hot dogs, the ever-popular pigs in blankets? Well, it’s not too early in the month, because July means we’re only days away from the Fourth of July and the Nathan’s Famous Fourth of July International Hot …