The Definitive Guide to Comedy
TGIF! Thank Ghostbusters It’s Friday. These are your busters of ghosts, coming to a movie theater near you in 2016: Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon. Photographed July 10, 2015, on the movie set in Boston by director Paul Feig. Screenplay by Katie Dippold. Neil Casey will …
A lot has been clickbaited around the Internet about an hourlong conversation Michael Eisner conducted with Goldie Hawn last week at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where Eisner is on the board of trustees. Everyone focused on a small part of what Eisner said while paying Hawn a compliment, when he …
Over the holiday weekend, newspaper readers much savvier than Amy Dickinson read between the lines of her “Ask Amy: Advice for the Real World” column and realized that she doled out advice to a very fake person from a very terrible movie. The lead question in The Washington Post and …
Whether you watched today’s Nathan’s International Hot Dog Eating Contest and found it ridiculous — or refused to watch it precisely because it’s ridiculous — you’re right in your right as American to feel that way. And also correct, but perhaps not for the reason you think. So instead, watch …
This holiday weekend proves the perfect time to catch up with the cast of this summer’s hit comedy movie, Trainwreck — they’re taking over SiriusXM, providing backstage videos from their recent stand-up comedy tour for regional charities, and offering you the chance to win a trip to attend the official …
This movie trailer lives on an electronic device you’re holding, down by the river! Or something like that. Here’s your first look at the new documentary, I Am Chris Farley, which opens in select movie theaters across America at the end of July. (Trailer via Buzzfeed) I Am Chris Farley, …
Pam Matteson, a stand-up comedian and impersonator who performed in the 1988 movie Punchline, has died after her third bout with cancer in the past decade. Matteson was 61. Born Sept. 23, 1953, the Brooklyn native made her way toward Hollywood by the early 1980s, where she scored bit parts …
Dick Van Patten, famously known as the TV dad on Eight is Enough in the late 1970s, died on Tuesday. Van Patten was 86. Van Patten started as a child actor on stage productions in his native New York City He really began to show off his comedic touch, though, …
The Film Society of Lincoln Center will have a five-day feast of funny feature films this summer by presenting “I Found This Funny: The Comedy World of Judd Apatow,” from July 10-14. Highlights include screenings of many movies Apatow either has directed or produced, a marathon free screening of Freaks and Geeks, …
At 100 years old, Jack Rollins survived and thrived through all of the comedy booms, and rightly could take at least partial credit for the great talents of at least two peak periods in the funny business as a manager and producer. Starting in the 1950s, Rollins represented and fostered …
