The Definitive Guide to Comedy
About halfway through Brian Scolaro's Comedy Central Presents, the comedian announces he'll now tell some random jokes. That's not the only thing random about his half-hour special. For his backdrop, Scolaro went with a funeral motif, complete with coffin. Odd. Doesn't really even mention it at all, though he does …
I don't think I have seen Anthony Jeselnik as much as I did during the 32 minutes he spent onstage last summer taping his Comedy Central Presents, which debuts tonight. In the preview clip below, they kept in two off-hand remarks Jeselnik made dealing with all of the adoration from …
The festival season for comedians already has begun in 2009, and if you're in Chicago, San Francisco, or Park City this weekend, then you can join in the fun. At least as a spectator. Chicago long has been known as a hub for aspiring sketch comedy performers, and this weekend …
Following up on Gawker and the Post's Page Six reports, here is the 15-second ad ABC and CBS banned that promotes Will Ferrell's new one-man farewell to Bush on Broadway. I recalled seeing this ad air on TV at least once, and though I cannot remember what channel (they did …
Angry Bob is on the television right now giving his opinions and punchlines about yesterday's amazing plane crash and the end of the Bush era, live on the Rick Sanchez hour on CNN, otherwise known as the 60 minutes in which your inane Twitters and Facebook Wall comments can wind …
Would you like to see how funny people made videos before they knew about the Internet, and also honor the recently deceased Ricardo Montalban? This 1989 short film from Spy magazine will do the trick, as Jerry Seinfeld hosts and Victoria Jackson narrates this test on "how to be famous," …
Ricky Gervais will appear on Monday's edition of Inside The Actors Studio, which you probably already gathered quite well if you are a Bravo viewer. You can preview some clips from the show, too, and here, we see Gervais talk about how much of a global cash cow The Office …
This fake trailer for the movie "Slider" stars Dax Shepard and has garnered more than 546,000 views on YouTube in two days. Directed by Oren Kaplan and featuring James Adomian, Ben Siemon, Jeff Sloniker and Monika Smith, made for the UCB-LA's monthly variety showcase, The Midnight Show. Sometimes my typing …
CollegeHumor's new show debuts on MTV next month (9:30 p.m., Feb 8), and this extended trailer leads you, me and anyone else to believe that this will be an actual honest-to-goodness good reason to watch MTV this year (since we may not have any Human Giant to look forward to …
Some of the Saturday Night Live gang used a brief break from putting together this week's show to present the first live screening of 2008 online series "The Line" in front of a packed audience at the UCB Theatre followed by a lively Q&A. If you need to catch up …