Doug Benson’s I Love Movies
The funniest thing Doug Benson has done on Super Deluxe since, well, the last thing he did for Super Deluxe. It’s Benson’s I Love Movies, from print to video. Enjoy.
Author: Sean L. McCarthy
Editor and publisher since 2007, when he was named New York's Funniest Reporter. Former newspaper reporter at the New York Daily News, Boston Herald and smaller dailies and community papers across America. Loves comedy so much he founded this site.
Doug Stanhope at Carolines
Here’s something you don’t see every weekend: Doug Stanhope performing in a mainstream comedy club. Stanhope is at Carolines in midtown Manhattan through Sunday. His rolling tour of bars and dives also detours back into the comedy clubs at Go Bananas in Cincinnati March 28-30. Blasts from the past: My …
YouTube’s Sketchies II: The top 20
YouTube has announced its 20 semifinalists in his second Sketchies sketch comedy contest. Voting ends March 19 to whittle it down to the top 10 in the running for $25,000 in cash, $15,000 worth of production gear and an opportunity to meet with UTA Online Agents. See them all and …
Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil
What I like about Lewis Black’s new Comedy Central show, Root of All Evil: It takes the Tough Crowd formula, stand-up comedians talking smack about issues of the day, and refines it with tight focus without watering down the concept. These planned bits, the mock trial arguments, work better in …
For your consideration: Gay Robot
Comedy Central released this image today of Gay Robot, the star of Nick Swardson’s new animated series. From my interview with Swardson last May…Most reports say Gay Robot is going to get a second chance as a cartoon. True?“Yeah, Gay Robot is still alive. Comedy Central had always wanted it …
Gelmania! The debut
And you thought Rififi was done when Invite Them Up left the building? No. Instead, Brett Gelman has taken over Wednesdays and assumed the title of President of Comedy. His "inauguration" took place last night. In a cockroach outfit. Let me try to explain. Perhaps Gelman himself said it best …
Hulu! Chris Rock on his SNL audition
Hulu went live today for general public consumption. Haven’t had enough time to really root around, but just enough to unearth this clip from Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio, in which Chris Rock talks about his audition for Saturday Night Live.
L.A., Boston club mainstays on the move
Looks like this spring and summer will see big changes for popular venues in both Los Angeles and Boston. Largo will close its current operations in mid-May to move into the larger Coronet Theatre in June (reports the L.A. Times). Meanwhile, Boston may see an even bigger shift from its …
Comedy Central’s 2008/2009 project list
Comedy Central has revealed its list of upcoming works and pilots under the modest heading: "The Future of Comedy." Next year, prepare for a fantasy-comedy set in medieval times, "Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire," written by Peter Knight. The pilots include projects by or featuring Snoop Dogg, …
The “next big blind guy”
Paging Hannibal Buress: I think we’ve just found your "next big blind guy." He’ll be running New York on St. Patrick’s Day.