The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Kennedy Center has announced it will award its 11th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor to George Carlin. "The Kennedy Center is pleased to present George Carlin with The Mark Twain Prize," said Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman. "In his lengthy career as a comedian, writer, and …
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For those of you who saw Myq Kaplan all-too-briefly on Last Comic Standing this season, you’ll be delighted to know that he did get to tell the dramatic (rather, funny) conclusion to his joke that begins with him punching a baby. It’s included on the end of this clip from …
Some comedians find their catchphrases become Frankenstein-like creatures that get out of their control. For a brief period, it appeared that Larry the Cable Guy felt that way about "Git-R-Done!" in his live theater shows, trying to git-r-out-of-the-way so he could git-back-to-his-jokey-jokes and dampen down shouts of it from the …
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A full 25 years after Strange Brew, Canada has welcomed (and FOX has gotten in on) an animated TV version of Bob and Doug McKenzie, the characters created by Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis originally for SCTV. So, a second chance for these Second City characters, eh? Eh! Thomas and …
Earlier this year, I told you that during the tapings for Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham, comedian Shane Mauss had himself one of them thar American Idol moments, knowing enough of his surroundings to gaze into the camera as it panned across the stage, in close-up, to deliver a punchline. …
Season three of David Wain’s online comedy series, Wainy Days, debuted today on My Damn Channel. A.D. Miles returns as one of Wain’s friends to help him out of a jam. Will Wain find love and happiness this season? He already starts out with two dates in one night, so…enjoy …
The second live episode of Wasp Cove, the soap opera musical set in the 1980s, debuts tonight at Comix (as they say) before a live studio audience. It’s the creation of Julie Klausner and Rachel Shukert, and if last month’s premiere episode was any indication, it’s a footloose and fanciful …
I didn’t make it Bonnaroo this weekend, but thousands of other music and comedy fans did. And more than a few of them already have weighed in with their opinions of the massive Tennessee festival. Stereogum took plenty of pics, loved Chris Rock, thought Reggie Watts was "custom built for …