The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Mexico has been in the news a lot recently; Jon Lovitz, less so. But leave it to the Avocados From Mexico ad campaign to utilize the former Saturday Night Live star — he’s an actor! after all — for their Super Bowl LI commercial about secret societies and subliminal advertising. …
Better late than never, Funny or Die inspired a City Slickers reunion and recruited a few folks from Westworld for a parody mashup. Because, of course, City Slickers itself felt like a fantasy camp narrative — but FoD takes it a step further. Instead of Mitch (Billy Crystal) and Phil …
Perhaps you saw this segment on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in which Fallon and his guests Judd Apatow and Keanu Reeves acted out stand-up bits submitted by elementary school children? If not, roll the clip and let’s talk afterward! OK. So you may have …
Stephen Colbert is a devout Catholic. Ricky Gervais is a proud atheist. Although Gervais described himself more as an “agnostic atheist” on Wednesday’s Late Show, after Colbert questioned him about his Twitter fights with critics over religion. Can you believe in religion and science both? Why do we have something and …
Seriously, though. I’ve only covered one Comedy Central Roast live in person, and that happened to be the 2011 Roast of Donald Trump, since he insisted it take place in Manhattan, instead of Southern California, where Comedy Central usually toasts its roast victims. Trump was a lousy guest of honor, …
Harith Iskander calls himself “the godfather of stand-up comedy in Malaysia.” Now Iskander has an even grander moniker to go by: “Funniest Person in the World.” Plus a whopping $100,000 in cash prize money. It all came courtesy of the Laugh Factory, the Hollywood-based comedy club which just finished its …
Cycle, a media company and 24/7 content studio, has produced webisodes following athletes and musicians “All Day” to capture a slice of their lives, and today Cycle unveiled its first “All Day” episode with a stand-up comedian, Roast Battle winner and Inside Amy Schumer writer Mike Lawrence. The video below …
Camille Harris wrote a couple of musical lines that stood out so much on the IFC/CollegeHumor special, Comedy Music Hall of Fame, that Harris has not only written the rest of a song to surround those lines, but now also made a music video for it. This is “Baby on the Subway.” …
Denis Leary isn’t afraid of being an asshole. It’s the title of his longtime hit comedy single, and Leary has even updated it with the times. This August, Leary changed his 1990s tune to “Trump’s An Asshole” for a performance on The Late Late Show with James Corden. And on …
The abrupt series finale of HBO’s Any Given Wednesday weekly talk show hosted by Bill Simmons brought with it many jokes, thanks to his guests and longtime friends Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla — who not only made fun of Simmons for waiting too long to invite them on his …
