The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On the Internets last night, comedian and Sirius XM sex talker Sara Benincasa asked her fans for a good Halloween costume idea. She was trying to decide between Mad Men TV characters Joan and Peggy, but open to other suggestions. Obviously, Benincasa has the ginger hair, the killer curves and …
What do you get when you take SNL's "Fun With Real Audio" segments, add a healthy dash of MST3K, and stir liberally? You get the work of Scott Bateman. Bateman has provided his own animated commentary on politics for years online for Salon and True/Slant, and in his spare time, …
I don't know if "Ed Hardy" shirts have become the go-to joke in comedy clubs across the land just yet, but it's certainly become an accepted target for mockery in New York City and Los Angeles. Nick Kroll and Jon Daly have taken this product punchline and tagged it up …
They say one of the keys to comedy is timing. Well, how's this for timing? As all of the celebrity blogs were abuzz about reports of a reputed sex tape between one Jimmy Kimmel and Sarah Silverman being offered for sale — the Los Angeles Times reported it, too, with …
Speaking of EPIX, the cable channel's first original comedy effort will bring Lewis Black's latest stand-up special, Stark Raving Black, to screens big and small in October. The 80-minute feature was shot over two shows from Black's performances on Aug. 2 in Detroit. It'll initially screen in 16 states in …
The Comedy Store in West Hollywood is hosting a special tribute to the late Sam Kinison tonight that's being filmed as part of a documentary for the new EPIX cable channel. Back From Hell: A Tribute to Sam Kinison, will feature live performances tonight by Jimmy Shubert, Ron White, Marc …
Comedians love to point out the absurdities in the world around us, and mock celebrities, politicians and other powerful people who deserve to be brought down a notch or two or thirty-seven. But when comedians target other comedians for mockery, it always feels a little weird to me (and that's a …
There have been plenty of great Mad Men parodies released unto the Internets. Just click here, or here, or as of last week, even here. But then in the wee hours of this morning, Funny or Die shared this with me. As much as I am from Boston, I am …
Normally I wouldn't write about a stand-up comedy class, because there are many of them out there in comedy clubs and community colleges, and well, are they really all worth writing about? But Kyle Cease's stand-up comedy bootcamp, and the promotional videos his brother produced for it, caught my eye …
All of the politicos (and even those who don't read Politico) were hashtagging each other about whether or not it's a good idea for President Barack Obama to deliver a speech directly to America's students as they go back to school today and tomorrow. What might Obama try to tell …