The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s a rare event when the Jewish calendar and the American secular holiday calendar put Hanukkah early enough to coincide with Thanksgiving. But here we are. So Nick Kroll has beaten us all to the punch with this dummy movie trailer for Funny Die so Hollywood won’t bother with the …
This Thanksgiving, Bill Cosby would like us to give thanks for the family and food before us, and he’d also like us to ponder who in their right mind would look at a turkey and think of it as the centerpiece for a feast. He does so with the animated …
Hey, Sarah Silverman fans! Not only does Silverman have a new HBO special that debuts on Saturday, We Are Miracles, but also she already has a new music video for you to enjoy right now. This is her song, “Diva,” which she performs near the end of the special. For …
Houston-based stand-up comedian Ali Siddiq emerged victorious on Monday as the first grand prize winner of Comedy Central’s “Up Next” nationwide talent search contest. Fans online chose Siddiq from among nine finalists who had advanced this fall out of regional contests at network-approved comedy clubs. His prizes for winning include an …
Here are your nine finalists from Comedy Central’s inaugural Up Next talent showcase contest: Tone Bell Chris Cubas Randy Liedtke Nimesh Patel Joe Pera Ali Siddiq Dave Thomason Aaron Weaver Jenny Zigrino They performed last week at Carolines on Broadway during the New York Comedy Festival‘s Comics To Watch showcase. And …
Will Hines and Neil Casey are two of the finest improvisers and sketch comedians in New York City, or your city if they were in and/or are coming to your city, and for a glorious time they performed sketches together in an Upright Citizens Brigade show called “Small Men.” This …
Headphones and phones up! All lines are now open for the Gangster Party Line…it’s not safe for work, and may not even be safe for you, but if you’re willing to talk smack, they are, too. Roll the clip! Brought to you by Brent Weinbach, 2007 winner of the Andy …
Need a fun little ditty about improv comedy that anyone can enjoy, whether you love improvising, hate improvisers, or hate to love loving to hate all of the above! Roll it. From Hard Left Productions, straight out of Boston. Lyrics by Robert Woo. Here are the lyrics if you want …
Orange and black aren’t just for Halloween or hot new Netflix titles, but also the primary colors of tigers such as Hobbes of “Calvin and Hobbes.” For anyone who grew up with newspapers from 1985 to 1995, Bill Watterson’s comic strip about a boy and his stuffed tiger and their …
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have made some great comedy movies together (Wedding Crashers) and some forgettable ones (The Internship), too. OK, maybe just those two films. For Halloween, comedian Dan Perrault wonders how they might ruin some of our horror movies as well, in this parody for Fandango. Perrault …
