The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For the 51st annual Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy went with a live, primetime announcement/mini-concert. But you want to know who got nominated, don't you? While putting American Idol's star judge Simon Cowell up for Record of the Year (he produced "Bleeding Love" for Leona Lewis along with Clive Davis …
If, after having extended your Thanksgiving weekend visit with your parents in Massachusetts, you should find yourself in Harvard Square on a Wednesday evening and decide to stop in The Comedy Studio to see if you can catch Brian Kiley's set and say hi to Rick Jenkins and the gang, …
This interview between David Steinberg and Jerry Seinfeld appears in the Los Angeles Times Magazine. Can you tell me when, though? What year was this? Oh, this year. 2008. Really? Really. All of the talk about filming Comedian and pharmaceutical side effects and "anal leakage" threw me off, too.
Have you visited Jokes.com today? Comedy Central has revamped the site completely — had you clicked over there even only yesterday, you would have faced a drab waste of a landscape of lame jokes, submitted anonymously from years ago, from a world in which all jokes are timeless, and yet …
Funny or Die has found another gear of late, not just incorporating celebrities into funny and informative short online videos, but stretching the form to include original short films and this new effort by award-winning composer (and person you should thank for the songs in both the South Park movie …
On Jan. 14, 2009, PBS debuts a six-hour documentary look at the funny business in America called Make 'Em Laugh, hosted by Billy Crystal and narrated by Amy Sedaris. But you can get more than a live preview of the series this coming Sunday, Dec. 7, at the 92nd Street …
Here is a new video from Chicago-based comics Robert Hines and Pedro Castro from the troupe Big Dog Eat Child. Hines stars Toby Jones, who'll store anything you want or need for only $10.99! Rate it funny on Funny or Die here. Or watch it here and wonder if and …
Flight of the Conchords won't return to HBO for a second season until January 2009, which seems so much more than a month from now. It seems like an entire year, which is technically true but not so it's silly. Here comes help, as Funny or Die will have the …
Tommy Savitt, an L.A.-based stand-up and native of Brooklyn, NY, spent the month in Western Washington clubs, theaters and casinos, telling jokes night after night against dozens of competitors, and won the 2008 Seattle International Stand-Up Comedy Competition for his efforts. Savitt won $5,000, a record contract with Uproar Entertainment, …
Allow me to reintroduce you to a friend and fellow colleague in the trenches of comedy journalism, Nick A. Zaino III. You may have seen his name in my blogroll as The Optimistic Curmudgeon. But those of you in the Boston area, comedians and comedy fans alike, have seen his …