The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kid Rock has agreed to let Comedy Central assemble a roster of comedians and fame-seekers to make fun of him this summer as the next "victim" of a roast. Wait. Didn't the most recent roast of Donald Trump happen just a few months ago? Yes. Yes, it did. Nevertheless, we're …
If you thought listening to Jerry Seinfeld talk funny for an hour on HBO with Chris Rock, Louis CK and Ricky Gervais was something; if you thought seeing Seinfeld debut his own website today was something; well, this is something else entirely — a revealing look into Seinfeld's career and …
Christopher Titus has a special message for you about the needs of children. Roll it. Yes, the video may be a joke, but Titus is serious about helping kids. He founded a nonprofit volunteer organization called In-sight Youth Project, and on Saturday, May 7, Titus has gotten Dana Carvey …
This year's May 5 may have been really fun for me personally, but it still has a way to go to match the Cinco de Mayo when I hosted the Seattle Underground open mic, with this lineup written and prepared by Carl Warmenhoven. The only names missing from that list …
BBC America announced today that it'll launch a two-hour comedy block on Saturday nights this summer full of UK comedies — it's not Must-See TV Thursdays (that's NBC), it's "Ministry of Laughs." The block from 10 p.m. to midnight Saturdays, starting June 18, will include Come Fly With Me, an …
The Awl, the blog founded by former editors of Gawker, put out press releases when they launched a spin-off called Splitsider, proudly proclaiming there weren't any comedy sites on the Internet. I know. Really?!?! You'd think since then, they'd at least become a little more curious as online reporters when …
Warned you with the headline! Larry the Cable Guy filmed a segment in Times Square today with "The Naked Cowboy" as part of an episode for Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, which The History Channel announced this week that it had renewed for a second season. Photo …
After only one week at 10 p.m. Thursdays, FX has decided to burn off the remaining episodes of freshman FOX sitcom Running Wilde only once per week, late-night weekends. Episode 11, "Alienated," will air at 11 p.m. EDT/PDT on Friday, May 6. Epsiode 12, "The Pre-Nup," will air at 11 p.m. …
This is the holding home page for Jerry Seinfeld's personal site, set to debut on May 6, 2011. Why wait so long to have his own page online? Here's what Seinfeld, now 57, told The New York Times: ‚ÄúI really thought, ‚ÄòWhere‚Äôs my stuff going to be when I‚Äôm dead?‚Äô …
Comedy Central's series tend to come and go, but Workaholics will get to stick around for another year, earning a 10-episode second season today from the cable network. How'd they do it? Since premiering a month ago, Workaholics has been #1 in its timeslot (10:30 p.m. Wednesdays) in all TV for men …