The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ever wonder how the singing telegram would be adapted by comedians in the YouTube era? That’s where Laughcake.com comes into play. The brainchild of twin comedians Todd and Adam Stone, Laughcake.com offers professional comedians for hire to record personalized video greetings for your friends and family. Prices run from $29.99-$89.99 …
Here is your obligatory topical video of the day, featuring President Barack Obama, making a phone call to help get out the vote for his re-election campaign this fall. On the other end of the phone? Harold & Kumar!? The movie trilogy stoners, played by actors John Cho and Kal …
Every four years, the two major political parties in the United States of America meet in late summer to make formal their nominees for president and vice president, set party platforms, and mostly just party. As recently as a generation ago, the conventions held at least a modicum of drama …
The Republican National Convention, delayed by Tropical Storm Luther’s path through the Gulf of Mexico and past the coast of Tampa as an impending hurricane, should restart officially tonight. President Obama’s “angry translator,” Luther — as portrayed by Keegan-Michael Key in this recurring sketch from the Comedy Central series Key …
Flight of the Conchords released a brand-new single over the weekend. But “Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)” isn’t a typically funny song from the duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. No. It’s their very own “We Are The World” gone “We Are New Zealand” effort, as FOTC corralled …
From the comedy minds at UCB Comedy comes this daily double throwback premise… What if comic-strip cat Garfield was the topic for an entire episode of Comedy Def Jam? This is what might have looked like. Roll the clip! Written by Achilles Stamatelaky Directed by Ryan Hunter Starring Shaun Diston …
YouTube has announced its first class of “YouTube Next Comics” for 2012. These 16 comedians/groups have won $5,000 in video equipment, $10,000 in promotion costs for their YouTube channels, and will undergo three months of workshop training from mentors such as Glozell and CollegeHumor. And here they are. Take a …
Earlier this year, Robin Williams received the Comedy Icon Award from the second annual reboot of The Comedy Awards. Afterward, Williams met the press assembled backstage (actually, beneath stage level) to answer all sorts of questions. What’s his favorite movie he has done? Blah, blah, blah. You should hear some …
Eddie Murphy may have had a hit song back in the day with “Party All the Time” and even hosted the MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, too — but Murphy couldn’t accomplish what Community’s Donald Glover already has in his spare time away from comedy: Score his own VMA …
Melissa Villasenor, last seen by you on your TVs last summer on NBC’s America’s Got Talent (and last seen by Canadians in Montreal’s Just For Laughs shows last week), has unveiled a new impersonation. And it’s none other than new TV hitmaker and stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings. Check it out. …
