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Dead-Frog compares last week’s SNL cold open with an old live sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson doing something similar, but also quite superior. Hmmm. ChuckleDumper has a long interview with Tom Shillue (who since the interview has been on tour in Asia (Hong Kong, Manila, then into China) with Matt McCarthy, …
We now interrupt this comedy blog with an important message from my friend Bex Schwartz, who not only says and writes witty things for the TV and looks pretty doing so, but also, somehow, for reasons not yet explained, can sing Fergalicious backwards. So, here she is, performing…"Suoicilagref." It’s not …
You’d think Zach Galifianakis would be the big man on any campus, but that did not prove to be the case with these coeds at the Ohio State University. We need to improve his profile. "I’m not homeless. I’m eccentric," he says. We believe you, Zach! Will any of this …
While more than a few writers in the 21st century have turned their blogs into books, Rob Kutner went the more traditional, old-school, route, securing a book proposal, writing the book, then finally going to blogs such as The Huffington Post to promote it. Kutner’s book, Apocalypse How, begins with …
This is not The Office spinoff, coming this fall to NBC, nor is it anywhere close to the realm of funny that was the Japanese version displayed on SNL this weekend, but this video set in an office with Craig Robinson and Ed Helms of The Office does show why …
Comedy Central aired Damon Wayans’ special, "Way Out," late Saturday night as part of its "secret stash" and here’s a clip in which Wayans isn’t exactly sold on the idea of electing either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for president this year.
Jim Gaffigan would like you to see this. British television, whomever they are, think otherwise. I’m not even sure British television exists after watching this clip, but I certainly know that Jim Gaffigan exists, because I’ve seen him and talked to him and maybe even touched him. But don’t quote …
A columnist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune weighed in today on the reality behind "reality" TV show Last Comic Standing, which begins its sixth season on May 22. That’s right. The sixth season. A little late for a journalist to get around to figuring out what’s really going on with …
Comedy Central is celebrating the upcoming fourth season (fourth season!) of Mind of Mencia with an hourlong special this Sunday for Mr. Ned Holness, aka Carlos Mencia. Here are a few preview clips the network made available of Mencia’s "orginal" and "unique" comedy stylings. The special, "Carlos Mencia: Performance Enhanced," …
Ever wonder what’s really going on inside a comedian’s head? Will Franken often lets those inner voices out to play, and in "Side Two of Abbey Road", he tells his life story and his comedy story by wrapping it in and around the Beatles tunes from the final side of …