The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Robin Williams certainly still has the comedy bug bites after his long weekend in Chicago, flying into Minneapolis for three nights at the intimate 275-seat Acme Comedy Company. All three shows, Tuesday-Thursday, sold out in minutes, according to the club and the Star Tribune (which reminded me to update my …
A few months ago, Zach Galifiankis began screening two potential Absolut vodka videos he produced with his comedy friends Tim & Eric. Absolut put one of the videos up this spring. Here, thanks to friendly friends at Best Week Ever and Videogum, is the other video, in which the boys …
The barkers for the Comedy Village now have something extra to bark about this week on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village, as PJ Landers announced to clubgoers and mailing listers over the weekend that the building has new owners and the club will close May 10. Dave Chappelle continued to …
Brad Neely, a mainstay of Super Deluxe since the site went live, debuts a new miniseries today that brings all of his animated characters together in one virtual community. He’ll air a new animated episode every Monday in May, culminating in an actual TV appearance on Adult Swim. Enjoy.
My friends at Chicago comedy chronicler, The Bastion, reported that Robin Williams made the scene at both the Lakeshore Theater and the smaller Town Hall Pub over the weekend, apparently prepping for an apperance on Ellen (he’s listed as the guest on Tuesday, but the show tapes a day in …
Speaking of comedy on Sunday mornings, what if I told you the serene CBS Sunday Morning turned out to be the best mainstream TV news source for profiling comedy these days? I know. And yet. Yesterday, the program did an in-depth feature on Rita Rudner. In March, a profile of …
If you’re reading this, it’s a Sunday morning, and probably not the time you’re thinking about seeing a comedy show. Unless you have kids. And then you may want to hear about a limited-time production called The Wizard’s Lounge, which offers performances today and next Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at …
Showtime announced it’s renewing Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union for a seven-episode second season, due to hit our TV screens in 2009. When Ullman returns, she’ll be joined by another British TV comedy, The Marc Wootton Project. Marc Wootton also has made a name for himself on the other …
While we wait to see what Craig Bierko has bubbling up in his bathtub, Sara Benincasa isn’t waiting for a new episode of her NSFW Tub Talk series on Nerve.com. In her new episode, she has author Jonathan Ames in the tub. The video is much too short, though. What …
The new season of Unmasked, XM satellite radio’s comedy interview program, debuts Saturday with an entertaining and enlightening retrospective on Lewis Black’s career. Host Ron Bennington recorded the interview with Black and a live studio audience last month at Comix in NYC, and if you miss it Saturday, XM will …