The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is enjoying more exposure than ever this week, so it was curious to see one of his campaign workers put out a new TV commercial that shows him casually smoking a cigarette and being just plain weird. Not as weird? Seeing Tim Heidecker make his …
Funny or Die debuted this sketch last week during the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival, and it played great on the big screen. The premise: Eleven-year-old Kiernan Shipka (Sally Draper on Mad Men) has been in so much therapy on her TV show, that it qualifies her to provide therapy …
Some of the people who have joined the Occupy Wall Street movement in NYC and other cities across America may be ridiculous, but the movement is anything but. Comedians, of course, are trying to tap into the activist community to both help it and mock the system. This week, we’ve …
I cannot bring myself to watch any episode of any edition of Bravo’s Real Housewives series, because none of it is real, none of them are housewives, and it’s all complete garbage. But send it up, parody-style, with a bunch of Boston comedians portraying ladies from Southie? Wicked f’in yes, …
Lookie here, comedy fans. Maria Bamford went to Powell’s Books for her birthday, and decided to share her haul with you in her very own “haul” video. Because that’s a thing now. Roll it and find out what she’s won! Books!
Nice spot-on parody video here from Alison Bennett, as she, Violet Krumbein and Sasheer Zamata tell the kids to just be themselves, except for the fact that the singers they’re portraying — Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj, respectively — are anything but that to be successful. This video …
Gabriel Iglesias is hosting a new stand-up comedy showcase series on Comedy Central this fall — Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution premiered last Thursday at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific — and he has the Grammy-winning band Ozomatli performing in it as his house band. Nice get, Fluffy! Oh, right. He’s fluffy. …
A lot of aspiring comedians ask me for advice on getting into the business, and I remember from my own experiences in Seattle, those early days and nights when I would hope for a chance to corner each weekend’s headliners at the Comedy Underground and Giggles for some one-on-one conversation …
The Black Keys wanted to enlist someone to help announce their upcoming album, “El Camino.” They couldn’t get lawyer Saul Goodman, because he’s a fictitious character from a a TV show. So they found the next best thing in actor Bob Odenkirk. Why he’s selling a minivan, though? Not sure …
Cut for time? Perhaps. Because this parody of the very real apologies and apology video by Netflix’s Reed Hastings (Jason Sudeikis) and Qwikster’s Andy Rendich (Fred Armisen) is funny and even includes an appearance by a famous spokesman duo from the 1980s (played by Bobby Moynihan and Taran Killam). Thank …
