“Carmen,” a short film about Carmen Lynch by Chloë Sevigny
by Chloë Sevigny has directed and co-wrote a short film about comedian Carmen Lynch, a moving meditation on the life of a particular woman in comedy …
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Patton Oswalt wins the Best Comedy Album Grammy for “Talking For Clapping”
Congrats again to Patton Oswalt, who won the Grammy Award for 2016’s Best Comedy Album for “Talking For Clapping,” for which he previously also won …
Saturday Night Live debuts first-ever Snapchat sketch, er, Story: “Boycott”
We’ve grown accustomed the past couple of years with seeing Saturday Night Live post sketches that got “cut for time” or didn’t make it past …
Mike Myers will portray Del Close in a movie about the legendary improv comedy coach
In an ironic twist, The Second City and its leaders are producing a biopic about the legendary late improv comedy guru, Del Close, who famously …
Comedian’s #AGoodGame initiative for Super Bowl LI raises more than LXX thousand dollars in donations
Josh Gondelman lives in New York City and writes for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. But Gondelman still identifies with his Boston-area roots …
JR De Guzman wins Stand-Up NBC for diversity talent search for 2016-2017
Congrats to JR De Guzman, the 2016 winner of NBC’s Stand-Up diversity talent search! De Guzman, born in the Phillipines and raised in California, beat …
This is Spinal Tap suing Vivendi, StudioCanal now for $400 million in lost profit
The band is back together, but this time, Spinal Tap’s performers — Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer — along with the filmmaker Rob …
R.I.P. “Professor” Irwin Corey (1914-2017)
The “World’s Foremost Authority” and oldest living stand-up comedian, Professor Irwin Corey, has died. Corey was 102. Praised by Lenny Bruce as one of the …
Kristen Schaal T-Mobile Super Bowl commercials
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] A new series of ads for T-Mobile launched during the Super Bowl imagining Kristen Schaal as a …
Jon Lovitz subliminal Super Bowl advertisement for avocados from Mexico
Mexico has been in the news a lot recently; Jon Lovitz, less so. But leave it to the Avocados From Mexico ad campaign to utilize …