The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For the one person who still doesn’t understand the sports included in the Summer Olympics — so you’re that person?!? — BBC America has enlisted American comedian Dave Hill to help explain and demonstrate them. Here he is on the parallel bars. And based on the U.S. men’s gymnastics team …
Anyone who thought that Andy Kindler’s annual State of the Industry speech at Montreal’s Just For Laughs had become predictable or stale over the past two decades obviously didn’t see and hear Kindler on Friday afternoon. A resurgent Kindler — buoyed by a pitch-perfect impersonation of him by James Adomian …
Another week, another somebody’s-got-issues-with-a-joke-at-The-Laugh-Factory. Sigh. Jamie Masada has maintained genius-level status for decades in terms of drumming up publicity for his Laugh Factory comedy club in Hollywood. At the same time, however, his club often finds itself at Ground Zero for fans recording the stand-up acts and/or taking such offense …
I’d say 2012 is the year of the superhero movie, but that would be insulting to all of the other years of the 21st century dominated by superhero movies. Instead, focus on this fact: Every comic-book superhero has to face a villain, and each of these villains speaks in witty …
Have you ever looked at YouTube and seen people you’ve never heard of rack up millions of views and wonder, how did that happen? How could that happen for me? Well, you may be in luck. Maybe. YouTube has launched a new development and mentoring program called YouTube Next Comic. …
Lee Greenwood has “Proud to be an American.” Denis Leary has “Kiss My Ass.” Because that’s Leary’s way to announce his American pride for this Fourth of July holiday week. And in the video for Leary’s new song with his band, The Enablers, we see how he celebrates the lazy, …
Want to know what the future of entertainment will look like? Intel’s Brian David Johnson does, so he recently paid a visit to the Laugh Factory in Hollywood and asked club owner Jamie Masada. Masada offers a tour of the club and shows off facilities where they videotape the stage …
We haven’t heard much from Jack Black and Kyle Gass as the over-the-top musical duo Tenacious D since their first full-length feature film, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, failed to win over moviegoers or critics in 2006. But it’s 2012 now, and the boys have a good sense …
As if you need to be reminded, but Funny or Die is producing a special half-hour episode of its popular webseries, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, which will premiere on Sunday, May 6, immediately before the second annual Comedy Awards on Comedy Central. The special, Between Two Ferns: A …
The years since Stephen Colbert shocked the White House Correspondents Dinner — and then sitting President George W. Bush — have seen the so-called “nerd prom” (how are they nerds and how is this a prom, exactly?) veer every which way but loose in a systematically reactive process in trying …
