The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What a weekend for Lin-Manuel Miranda and Ben Bailey! Last year, Miranda’s hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme was preparing for Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival while he wondered how to translate a musical he first wrote as a college sophomore into a full-scale Broadway production. Well, Miranda’s creation, In …
Adult Swim debuts the oddest, yet most delightful new piece of television history tonight as Gemberling becomes Fat Guy Stuck In Internet. First impression? Like a 21st century multimedia version of the camp classic movie of Flash Gordon. In another word: Awesome. Lots of UCB talent represented. The premiere episode, …
Dana Carvey’s new hourlong HBO special, Squatting Monkeys Tell No Lies, debuted last night, and within a few seconds, you most likely thought to yourself…Dana Carvey? Whatever happened to that guy, anyhow? The next hour attempts to answer that question. And the answer is…He’s still here, ready to entertain you …
Ralphie May hosts tonight’s episode of Live at Gotham, but something tells me this clip in which May describes his masturbation techniques will not be making it to broadcast. Ralphie talks politics after the jump…
New York magazine has a nice feature this week on UCB’s Charlie Todd and his Improv Everywhere movement, suggesting that it might not make it on TV because, well, it’s not mean enough. How about them apples? In related news, Todd launched a new blog, Urban Prankster, to chart like-minded …
While Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel are entertaining the music festival crowd at Bonnaroo, their Human Giant co-star Aziz Ansari is busy getting himself cast on network primetime television in the NBC spinoff of The Office. As Ansari writes on his blog: I haven’t been this excited since Lisa lost …
If you knew nothing about comedy and turned on NBC tonight, the first few minutes of Last Comic Standing would not help you discern whether Americans actually have a sense of humor. And the celebrity judges from The Office, Kate Flannery and Brian Baumgartner are not helping matters. First up …
If you’re in Tennessee for Bonnaroo, please say hi to Janeane Garofalo for me. She doesn’t have an email or use the Internet, so she likely won’t be reading this. That’s one of many things you might learn about Garofalo in her interview for Unmasked on XM satellite radio, which …
Chris Rock just got back from South Africa, and cannot believe the way he was punked there last weekend. Particularly after having to deal with too much craziness with Anthony Pellicano and his trial earlier this year, these punks had the nerve to accuse Rock of statutory rape? Rock popped …
The political parody site, 23/6, opens up an investigative reporting wing with this new series, Exposed. In the first episode, political "comedian" Barry Goldstein gets his comeuppance. With cameos by Michael Showalter and Mike Birbiglia, shot in part at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Enjoy. 236.com: ExposedUploaded by twentythreesix