The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you missed it on the original audio podcast earlier this month, you now can watch Kent Alterman, Comedy Central’s president of original programming, speak for 73 minutes with Andy Greenwald of Grantland about Alterman’s career arc. Alterman met Amy Poehler and the founding four of the Upright Citizens Brigade …
Were you thinking to yourself, you know what the first three seasons of Guy Code could have used? A big musical anthem to bring all the boys together with a common harmonic purpose. Well, season four of MTV2’s Guy Code kicked off last night with “Respect The Code,” featuring all …
Broad City began as a webseries by Upright Citizens Brigade performers Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, and after 35 webisodes and the approval of Amy Poehler, made the leap to TV. Broad City just wrapped its first season on Comedy Central, with a renewal for more episodes in 2015. That’s the …
Money is the fruit of evil Money is the root of sin Funny money loot will make you rich Life’s a bitch and you can’t win. Money is the root of evil Never ever question why Money is the fruit of evil Work all day until you die. Here it …
Here’s another Saturday Night Live sketch with host Louis C.K. that didn’t make it past Saturday night’s dress rehearsal. One man’s space junk is another man’s space hunk, am I right? This sketch, “Space Encounter,” takes the Star Trek motif, puts CK in Klingon get-ups or whatnot — they never …
Asking who your favorite comedian is always feels like a trick question to me. Do you mean of all-time or right now? What answer are you hoping I give? It feels like only a slightly less cruel joke than asking me to actually tell you a joke. When I left …
Seth Meyers tells NBC viewers each weeknight to stay tuned for Carson Daly’s even later overnight show, but what really happens at the end of Late Night with Seth Meyers? This cute video imagines how quickly and how radically the inmates take over the asylum that is the Late Night …
David Brenner died on March 15, 2014, from cancer. The comedian who logged more guest appearances than anyone else on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was 78. Last April, Brenner sat down with Bill Boggs at 92Y in New York City for an hourlong look back at his life …
Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns made a mini-movie about comedian Eugene Mirman, and what happened next will inspire you. No, wait. I’ve read so many of those danged UpworthyViralNovaBuzzFeedy clickbait-and-switch headlines that it’s seeping into my writing. No, wait. You should be inspired. That’s the whole point of those lovely …
Joe Sabia is a NYC-based director and speaker, who has co-hosted and co-curated Boing Boing TV on Virgin America for three years. But for the past year-and-a-half, Sabia has been living in the fictional past of Dunder-Mifflin’s Scranton sales office and cross-referencing all of The Office‘s pop-cultural references. The result: …
