The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Having lived in the Phoenix area for four years and spending quite a bit of time literally in the shadow of Arizona State University — the Tempe Improv is across the street from Sun Devil Stadium and ASU's athletic complex — this Daily Show report by Jason Jones hits so …
Daniel Tosh's new Comedy Central series, Tosh.0, is still a few weeks away from debuting (June 4), but Tosh reported via Twitter that he has spent "4 weeks in the office and we have 30 seconds of comedy so far." Actually, make that 37 seconds. This is their take on …
Jim Jeffries has his first HBO hour stand-up special debuting on Saturday, May 16, and the network has graciously fed the Internets with a few glimpses from the set, taped earlier this year in NYC. Jeffries, an Australian who made his comedy name in the U.K., is unabashedly not safe …
Thank the UCB Midnight Show in Los Angeles for conjuring up this Travel Channel parody, in which 1980s Britpop sensation Tears For Fears walks the Trail of Tears. Shout, shout, let it all out! Upcoming shows: June 6th at UCB LA at Midnight with host Fred Willard
You'd seem to think so, as this story in Sunday's New York Times literally goes to the left-field seats at new Yankee Stadium to interview a beer vendor there, 51-year-old Steve Lazarus, who has been telling jokes on the job (and also in suburban comedy rooms in New York, New …
Wanda Sykes had the chance in 2009 to be the first to roast President Barack Obama and the press at the White House Correspondents Dinner. She got in a good jibe about VP Joe Biden, as well as the Obamas meeting Queen Elizabeth II. Sykes had tougher words for Obama's …
No, really. How many pop-culture names and brands did Aziz Ansari name-drop during his eight-minute chat on Jimmy Kimmel Live? Make your guess, then watch and see how close you came:
Would you like to see Larry David playing a Woody Allen type of character having a Woody Allen type of relationship with a 21-year-old woman in a Woody Allen type of film? Then watch this trailer for Whatever Works, and tell me what you think of it? Thanks.
Some of you comedy nerds already knew about this, because comedy nerds are more likely to spend time debating who's funnier or sending fan mail to a comedian via message boards such as A Special Thing (who am I kidding here? obviously this is going to sound loony the minute …
In case you missed it last night, Norm MacDonald had quite the rambling chat session with David Letterman. Really. It was all over the map. But Letterman finally got what he wanted in the end, giggling throughout MacDonald's story about Bob Uecker seeing John Fogarty. Apparently, Uecker must not be …