The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Scenes from the new edition of MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head screened yesterday at San Diego Comic-Con. Here you go. More Cornholio. Just like you remember it. Only this time, with the Jersey Shore instead of music videos. Because. You know. It’s MTV. Roll the clip!
Myq Kaplan was on Conan last night, and he schooled us all on how summer never never can be “hot as balls,” as well as how people who don’t pronounce Target correctly should just get away. You get it. Or do you j-et it? Roll the clip!
So far stand-up comedians are 0-2 in making it past the quarterfinal stage in the 2011 season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent — although, of course, there will be a wild-card addition which gives both J. Chris Newberg and Geechy Guy one more chance to sneak into the semis this …
So about that guy who threw a shaving cream pie at the face of News Corp. overlord Rupert Murdoch during his live globally-televised testimony before British Parliament. We all quickly learned that Jonnie Marbles was a comedian, who even made a quip about his act on Twitter @jonniemarbles moments beforehand: …
Paul Scheer’s new Adult Swim parody procedural series, NTSF:SD:SUV::, premieres this week. And AOL TV (which hasn’t been absorbed by The Huffington Post…yet) visited the set to interview Scheer and the rest of the cast, which includes Brandon Johnson, Rebecca Romijn, Kate Mulgrew, Martin Starr and June Diane Raphael. Also …
Yesterday, a website asked if Zachary Levi (NBC’s Chuck) had taken a bit from stand-up comedian Demetri Martin. Clearly, Levi, appearing several months ago on the Dec. 23, 2010, episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, got his first big laugh with a line that’s strikingly similar to a …
What a relief that GQ’s 2011 Comedy Issue also managed to put a male comedian in a bathing suit! Well, it is Ken Jeong. And the magazine wants us to believe that he is photobombing this shoot with model Kate Upton. Except isn’t the whole point of a photobomb that …
Funny or Die is getting into the comedy podcasting business, and they’ve picked one of their most popular video producers to help them do it. Earwolf broke the news of its deal with FoD tonight. As of September 2011, Earwolf will become the exclusive sole provider and producer of Funny …
If you’re watching AMC’s Breaking Bad, or just catching up to this Emmy-winning drama, then you’re well-aware of Bob Odenkirk’s rascally role as attorney Saul Goodman. In season four (which premiered last night), Saul has hired himself a bodyguard, Huell, who is played by none other than stand-up comedian Lavell …
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, now in its fourth year, is unlike any other comedy festival. Intended to be a joke on the notion of comedy fests, it has nevertheless become a Brooklyn institution now, and as Mirman and his co-conspirators Julie Smith and Caroline Creaghead note, it has managed …
