The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The festival season for comedians already has begun in 2009, and if you're in Chicago, San Francisco, or Park City this weekend, then you can join in the fun. At least as a spectator. Chicago long has been known as a hub for aspiring sketch comedy performers, and this weekend …
Following up on Gawker and the Post's Page Six reports, here is the 15-second ad ABC and CBS banned that promotes Will Ferrell's new one-man farewell to Bush on Broadway. I recalled seeing this ad air on TV at least once, and though I cannot remember what channel (they did …
Would you like to see how funny people made videos before they knew about the Internet, and also honor the recently deceased Ricardo Montalban? This 1989 short film from Spy magazine will do the trick, as Jerry Seinfeld hosts and Victoria Jackson narrates this test on "how to be famous," …
Ricky Gervais will appear on Monday's edition of Inside The Actors Studio, which you probably already gathered quite well if you are a Bravo viewer. You can preview some clips from the show, too, and here, we see Gervais talk about how much of a global cash cow The Office …
This fake trailer for the movie "Slider" stars Dax Shepard and has garnered more than 546,000 views on YouTube in two days. Directed by Oren Kaplan and featuring James Adomian, Ben Siemon, Jeff Sloniker and Monika Smith, made for the UCB-LA's monthly variety showcase, The Midnight Show. Sometimes my typing …
CollegeHumor's new show debuts on MTV next month (9:30 p.m., Feb 8), and this extended trailer leads you, me and anyone else to believe that this will be an actual honest-to-goodness good reason to watch MTV this year (since we may not have any Human Giant to look forward to …
Some of the Saturday Night Live gang used a brief break from putting together this week's show to present the first live screening of 2008 online series "The Line" in front of a packed audience at the UCB Theatre followed by a lively Q&A. If you need to catch up …
Any great documentary leaves you feeling a greater knowledge and fulfillment about the subject matter, and wanting to further share your newfound knowledge with even more people. Any good documentary gives you insight into a subject and leaves you wanting more. Judging from the first two hours of the six-hour …
If you think you are the funniest person in South Texas, you best be entering this competition before George W. Bush moves back into town and tries to take your title away from you! You hear me? The River Center Comedy Club is running this shindig. They say if you …
The White House transition finally happens in a week, but we're still a couple of months from the next transition in NBC late-night television, and Jimmy Fallon went to the Internets last night asking you to help him pick a font and layout for his Late Night with Jimmy Fallon …