The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When I saw The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was going live last night on Comedy Central, at first I lowered my expectations, because their live editions in the past on election nights have been, well, not so funny. And this was the inauguration of President Barack Obama. How would …
Congratulations are in order for the folks at Ars Nova, the New York City theater and production company that made its first foray into feature films with the blaxploitation spoof, Black Dynamite, got it into Sundance and earlier this week sold the distribution rights to Sony Pictures for about $2 …
If you're still stumped trying to figure out if you know any and/or all of the New York City comedians depicted in cartoon form in MAD magazine, then Ken Pringle at Chucklemonkey has your answers, including what appears to be the photos used by artist Rick Tulka. How many did …
The DVD, or rather, DVDs for Chris Rock's 2008 HBO special, Kill the Messenger, became available on Tuesday. You can experience the special as it aired, or get the full package, as it were, with a three-disc collection that includes all three performances separately from Johannesburg, London and New York …
Katt Williams's 2008 special, It's Pimpin' Pimpin, makes it TV debut this coming weekend on Comedy Central (times and dates here), but the folks at Clyde Comedy have done gone and already re-imagined one of his bits, about poor lil Tink Tink trying to enter a running race, as a …
Robert Townsend's documentary, Why We Laugh, based on Darryl Littleton's book, Black Comedians on Black Comedy, makes its debut at this year's Sundance Film Festival. As we celebrate Martin Luther King Day and tomorrow's inauguration of President Barack Obama, it's timely for us to examine how black comedy has evolved …
Rachel Dratch stars and co-wrote Spring Breakdown, a comedy that has Dratch, Amy Poehler and Parker Posey getting mixed up with the shenanigans of spring break. It's been sitting on the shelf for a while, with little prospects for distribution, so Dratch got her film into Sundance, which ensured not …
Sorry for only catching word of this now, but Showtime is in the middle of taping six new comedy specials in Southern California as part of the LOL Comedy Festival. Three specials taped on Sunday, another three on Monday; all in Los Angeles. Here are the details: Hot Tamales: Kiki …
Don't know about you, but after Thursday's amazing "Miracle on the Hudson" plane crash and seeing several of the SNL crew in jovial spirits on Wednesday night, perhaps my expectations for this week's edition of Saturday Night Live were too high. Because I certainly expected more. That's not to say …
In case you missed it, last week's Saturday Night Live ended with a filmed parody of the Burger King "Whopper Virgins" campaign. The short film showed up online a little late this week on Hulu (and NBC.com), but it's worth another look. Especially when you compare it to the actual …