The Definitive Guide to Comedy
My friends at Gawker today created a graphic to explain the inner comedy circle of Judd Apatow, who seems to have a hand in almost every major comedy movie production in the past two years. Gawker presents Apatown:
While we all wait with bated breath to hear if anyone new has made it onto the cast of Saturday Night Live, the folks over at The Daily Show have not been shy to pull the trigger on hiring new correspondents, and I have to hand it to them. After …
Some of you know that I used to perform both improv and stand-up comedy. Some of you had no idea. Either way, I thought that if you’re going to come and visit and see what I have to say about the comedy world, then you might be curious to see …
After spending last year off-Broadway exploring her Vaudevillian side, Margaret Cho returned to stand-up this year, and also is returning to TV with her own "reality" program, The Cho Show, debuting Aug. 21 on VH1. Here is the "supertrailer" for it: VH1 TV Shows Music Videos Celebrity Photos News & …
Dana Carvey talks to the San Jose Mercury News about returning to stand-up after "semi-retiring" to be a husband and father: "I’ve been at this for 25 years," Carvey says. "I did SNL. I did some movies. My kids have grown up. I’ve saved a lot of money — that …
Opie and Anthony have provided a great service to stand-up comedy by having comedians appear as regular guests on their FM and satellite radio programs over the years, but their efforts to translate that partnership into a live comedy tour, aka the Traveling Virus, has failed. Because their "fans" known …
Jim Tews is a stand-up comedian from Cleveland looking to take the next step in his career, and this online video series with HBO Labs called "The Opener" documents that process. Sort of. Not really. But it’s a funny look inside the comedy world, with episodes featuring Ian Bagg, Jen …
Variety’s Emmy coverage looks at the acting categories and concludes, "Standups no longer rule sitcom world." They go to Charlie Sheen for comedy advice and expertise. E-gads. I’ll simply refer you back to what I wrote about the state of the standup sitcom in March.
Only now unwinding from my second tour through the Upright Citizen Brigade’s Del Close Marathon, which ended Sunday night (though starting the tour after an all-nighter to Washington, D.C., and back probably contributed to the fatigue on my end), and wished, as I did last summer, that I had gotten …
Dane Cook wrote today about how much he does not like the new poster for his upcoming movie, My Best Friend’s Girl. He outlines all of the problems he has with it, and concludes: "Granted, one poster stinking up the joint isn’t the end of the world. Yet it sends …