The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tig Notaro is hitting the road this summer for a very special stand-up comedy tour. Just how special? “Showtime is going to be filming my tour this summer, beginning in early August,” Notaro says in this clip uploaded yesterday from Seal Beach, Calif. “And we’re looking for venues for me …
Think of Gene Wilder and you think of his many memorable movie roles, from 1971’s Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory through to Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak, Stir Crazy, and maybe even The Woman in Red, but definitely going back even farther to Bonnie and Clyde and The Producers. But …
Kevin Hart’s second stand-up concert film, Let Me Explain, hits movie theaters near you on July 3, 2013. Filmed last November in a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden during the New York Comedy Festival, plus adding footage from the road, Let Me Explain has a new “red band” uncensored …
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… You knew it was happening before it happened, but Community creator Dan Harmon is back running his show for the NBC sitcom’s fifth season in 2013-2014. Chris McKenna, who also left before the fourth season, also is returning as an executive producer. …
Ask most comedians today who they love and loved watching perform, and Richard Pryor’s name is more likely than not to make the cut as one of the top two influencers for a generation of stand-ups. That’s the sense you’ll get at the start of watching the new documentary about …
Jay Chandrasekhar is best known as the ringleader of sketch comedy troupe Broken Lizard, but he’s also a stand-up comedian and an in-demand director, helming TV episodes over the past year of Community, Happy Endings, Franklin & Bash, Ben & Kate, and Royal Pains — plus acting in movies such …
Cheech & Chong celebrated an extra-special 4/20 week in 2013 with a big smokin’ promotional tour, capped off Thursday afternoon with a surprise visit from an unsurprising big fan in hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg during the comedy duo’s “Town Hall” recording for SiriusXM. And if we’re supposed to call Calvin …
At a screening earlier this month of The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled at the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival, and elsewhere, Doug Benson readily concedes that he had wanted to follow up to The High Road — a 2009 road documentary for G4 that he’d hoped the cable channel would …
PaFunny or Die has unveiled its first “on-site feature film,” iSteve, starring Justin Long as the late Apple founder Steve Jobs. With a running time clocking in just under 78 minutes, FoD hasn’t allowed embedding of iSteve — watch the full movie at https://www.funnyordie.com/videos/d2e0f617e3/isteve The film also comes with a disclaimer: “All characters …
Jonathan Winters, one of the most inventive and inspired comedians whose career spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, has died. He was 87. This is the message on his website today: “Jonathan Winters passed away of natural causes at his Montecito, California home at 6:45 p.m. PDT on …
