Larry David bringing a ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm to HBO
by Forget the pretty. Forget the good. This is great news. After a five-year hiatus, Larry David will return to his semi-autobiographical, semi-scripted life as “Larry …
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Monologues a microcosm of the metaphor for late-night TV and the politics of today in 2016
Remember how your parents and grandparents warned you growing up about how to protect yourself in the case of a mass shooting? No. They were …
Daniel Sloss on Conan
Daniel Sloss returned to Conan again — and on Monday night’s show, Sloss wondered how Brits can get condoms for free, but if a woman …
Adrienne Truscott’s “Asking For It” still, after all these years
Adrienne Truscott won multiple awards when she took her one-woman show about rape jokes to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, including honors for “Comic Originality” and …
Bill Murray to receive 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
The Kennedy Center announced today that it’ll award Bill Murray the 2016 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Said Murray in a statement: “I believe …
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s declaration of love: His Best Score acceptance speech for “Hamilton” at the Tony Awards
Lin-Manuel Miranda and his improvised comedy hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme have scaled even greater heights on Broadway, first with Miranda’s semi-autobiographical In The Heights, …
Eddie Vedder and Judd Apatow sing a duet to Garry Shandling using Shandling’s own words, at Bonnaroo
Judd Apatow and Pearl Jam frontman Eddie Vedder were equally full of surprises this weekend at the Bonnaroo music and comedy festival in Tennessee. Apatow …
Episode #97: Greg Giraldo biographer Matt Balaker
Matt Balaker is writing a book about Greg Giraldo; scratch that, he’s writing THE book on Greg Giraldo, as there hasn’t been a proper biography …
R.I.P. Gary Hood
Anyone who came through Hyenas, and later Laffs, came to know and love “Hoodie.” Gary Hood, a comedy mentor and the booker at Laffs Comedy …
Watch Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel interrogate you in VR 360-degree 3D
Funny or Die has launched into the 3D world of 360-degree Virtual Reality with this first sketch, in which Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel play …