The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you watch Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO (the new season starts this Friday, Feb. 20), then you know that Maher has two issues that really hit close to home: 1) legalizing the personal use of marijuana, and 2) the silliness of religious beliefs. The latter was the …
If the physical comedy of Rebecca Corry looks familiar, then perhaps you saw this petite powderkeg high-kicked her way into the finals of the fourth season of Last Comic Standing. And you thought I was going to go with some sort of Dane Cook reference? For her first Comedy Central …
Coming off of a long holiday weekend, sometimes you just want to kick back and take some extra time off, only to realize that the comedy news is piling up and needs to get delivered. All of which is to say that Comedy Central presented Pete Lee's first Comedy Central …
It's always interesting to me as a follower of comedians to see talented performers move from New York City to Los Angeles, or vice versa, and also tracking the hows and the whys of these decisions. But what about all of those other people who say they're going to move …
I know I am supposed to care about and redistribute the new two-minute title sequence for The Simpsons that aired on Sunday to coincide with the show's debut in HDTV, and yet, seeing what cartoon skin looks like in high-definition is just not the same as watching sports, a concert …
If I had a time machine, I would go back a week to give the Saturday Night Live staff a head's up that they could really just go ahead and start their two-week vacation a week early. Because, really. We did not need to see that. Twas Valentine's Day, and …
Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy, the guys behind Funny or Die, also are responsible for getting Danny McBride his own comedy series, Eastbound & Down, which debuts Sunday, Feb. 15, on HBO. McBride plays Kenny Powers, a former Major League Baseball star whose star has fallen, landing him …
On the one hand, the announcement of Wanda Sykes as the main entertainment for the 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner on May 9 is nice and all. Growing up inside the beltway, as they say, Wanda Sykes certainly knows more than a little something about the political power players — …
We all know now that Feb. 11 was a blur for Joaquin Phoenix, and Feb. 12 turned out to be a blurry cold/flu vision for me, but who will look at this Friday the 13th and find it blurry? Spoiler alert: Probably you. That said, the Phoenix interview on The …
Fully aware that this has circulated around the Internets already today, and yet, I feel compelled to put this on my site, because, well, when I watched the full thing last night, I realized instantly that I was watching something special and no longer felt bad about staying in. Who …