The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The MTA runs New York City’s subway system, for what that’s worth. The funny things you may see or experience on a subway ride are another story, and NYC-based TV shows, movies and comedians have enjoyed this platform to share them with us over the years. Last week was a …
Congrats to Jenny Slate, who won the Critics’ Choice Awards prize last night for Best Actress in a Comedy for her performance in Obvious Child, where she played a stand-up comedian who has to decide what to do after an unplanned pregnancy. Slate’s acceptance speech is great. Even though she …
Taylor Negron — stand-up comedian, actor, painter, poet and muse — died Saturday from cancer. Negron was 57. Born Brad Stephen Negron on Aug. 1, 1957, in Glendale, Calif., young Taylor already was performing stand-up comedy and appearing in episodes of The Dating Game by the time he matriculated at …
For their third and final time hosting the Golden Globes, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler let it rip with jokes about civil rights, George Clooney, and oh yeah, Bill Cosby. Roll the clip! As for the actual winners, aka the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s version of the People’s Choice Awards, …
How did Netflix not announce this earlier in the week when it already had the full attention of the TV Critics Association? Regardless… Wet Hot American Summer officially is back in production! The cult favorite film from 2001 has found its cast members reunite a few times since, usually either …
Director Lisa D’Apolito was halfway through production of a documentary on the late Gilda Radner when she ran out of funds, so she turned to Indiegogo for help. She’s raised just more than half of the $50,000 she needs to finish LOVE Gilda — The Legacy of Gilda Radner. D’Apolito has until …
Not even Pauly Shore‘s fans were prepared for how good this new film is. A quarter-century after “The Weasel” popped on MTV and more than a decade after he stopped becoming a reliable box-office star, Shore spent much of his personal and professional capital making light of his status through …
Just a week after Sony Pictures acquiesced to Internet hackers and threats allegedly from North Korea to cancel the release of the new Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy, The Interview, the film is back on schedule for a limited Christmas Day release. President Barack Obama told reporters at his end-of-the-year press …
That long-awaited Pee-wee Herman comeback movie reportedly won’t happen on the big-screen now, unless you have a really big screen connected to your Netflix account. The Wrap reported Monday through an anonymous source that the film, written by Paul Reubens and Paul Rust and produced by Judd Apatow, “moved to …
After weeks of embarrassing reveals by unknown computer hackers who cracked into Sony Pictures, it was a terrorist threat with references to another 9/11 that prompted movie theater chains to pull back from the release of The Interview, and now a full cancellation from Sony. Sony released this statement just …
