The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedians Chelsea Peretti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) got engaged over the holidays, and Booking.com found just the perfect tie-in, booking the couple for a series of new TV ads imagining them planning their wedding and honeymoon. Roll the clips!
Kevin Hart’s relationship with Lionsgate is going next level, LOL, VOD. Literally. Hart’s Hartbeat Digital and Lionsgate announced today they’re launching a new video-on-demand service called Laugh Out Loud that’ll exclusively hold all of Hart’s content outside of live touring and theatrical releases — starting with an original series starring …
The shocking sudden death of Garry Shandling shook up the comedy community, with many comedians owing more than debts of gratitude to the 66-year-old. Conan O’Brien devoted much of his monologue and early program of Thursday’s Conan to talking about Shandling. A GQ profile of Shandling in 2010 opens with …
When Fred Armisen isn’t remaking Portland into Portlandia with Carrie Brownstein for IFC (their sixth-season finale airs Thursday), he’s playing drums for Late Night with Seth Meyers. Or is he? As Armisen explains in this video for The New York Times T Mag, it’s easy to fake being a drummer. …
What the world needs now is Joe Pera. Now more than ever. Thankfully, Adult Swim dedicated a quarter-hour early this morning to Pera and his musings for the latest episode in its Infomercials series (the same series that brought us Too Many Cooks). This is Joe Pera Talks You to …
When Ellen DeGeneres invited comedian Quincy Jones onto her daytime talk show last week to talk about his dying wish to record a stand-up special, DeGeneres made an appeal to TV networks to pick it up for broader distribution. “But what I want also, if someone from HBO is watching …
Louis C.K. has made seven episodes of his self-financed, self-made TV series, Horace and Pete, so far. He acknowledges it’s not a sitcom, unless you consider it as what the bar from Cheers would look like if you visited it during the afternoon — 2 to 5 p.m. — before …
Quincy Jones, the comedian, appeared on Ellen and talked with Ellen DeGeneres about finding out he has incurable mesothelioma in August 2015 with a diagnosis of about a year left to live. “I don’t accept it,” Jones said. Jones told DeGeneres he’s doing yoga, eating healthy and undergoing chemotherapy every three weeks. …
Come for the porn. Stay for the stand-up comedy. Plenty of pornographic film studios have garnered your attention in recent years with X-rated parodies of hit sitcoms. But what if a stand-up comedian decided to take advantage of porn’s popularity by introducing actual sex as a component of his comedy? …
Many movies will debut at film festivals such as Sundance, SXSW and Tribeca, but The Second Sound Barrier is not one of those films. It’s an all-star short spoof that’s somehow also branded content? That’s how they do it these days. Kind of like getting catfished. So when Robert Graham …
