The Definitive Guide to Comedy
My buddy in comedy blogging Todd Jackson may not be blogging as much, but that's because he has been tinkering in his online workshop, and he has figured out how to track stand-up comedy headliners across North America, week by week, in case you're ever wondering when the comedian you …
The initial slate of programming for the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas, has been announced this afternoon, and look who's on it! If you'd like to learn more about how the gosh-darned Internet and all of these social media networks have changed the game for comedy, well, then, …
Do you really need a tornado to be transported to another world? Maybe. It certainly helped add to the theme last night when thunderstorms brought funnel clouds through Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood, uprooting trees just a block or two away from the start of the third annual Eugene Mirman Comedy …
After a series of teasing pre-announcements, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert announced last night on Comedy Central that they would, in fact, host actual rallies on the National Mall in Washington D.C. on Oct. 30, 2010. As Stewart pointed out, this coincides with the end of a week full of …
Some other comedy news and tidbits that caught my eye includes: Sacha Baron Cohen is going to play Queen's Freddie Mercury in a biopic? Wow. (Deadline) Mike Drucker spells out how comedians perceive themselves, versus how the rest of the world perceives them. No one is spared. Just like a …
Until I find the path to reblog something from Tumblr into TypePad, we're going to have to rely on the ol' tried-and-true method of the cut-and-paste. Which is to say, look, people, Paul Scheer is one of the stars of FX's comedy about fantasy football called The League, which starts its …
TMZ is letting Lisa Lampanelli take over hosting duties today for its half-hour TV show, in which the pap smearers pitch their awfulness to her, for reasons which are never really explained. Exciting, isn't it? Roll a clip.
If Comedy Central passes on the pilot of Tonight's Funniest, it won't be for a lack of jokes. I attended a taping of it last week in Harlem (in the same studios where CC taped the first season of Important Things with Demetri Martin, btw). It's a faux game show. …
What more do you need me to say about this? It's Steve Martin! On Twitter. Click on @SteveMartinToGo and hit follow. He told you himself already.
In case you were wondering what Patrice Oneal was up to these days, now you know. He'll be recording a one-hour special for Comedy Central in November as part of the New York Comedy Festival! Time, date, and ticket information to come.