The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s the High Holy Days for Jews around the world this week, as we’ve entered Rosh Hashanah and approach Yom Kippur. As a Gentile with a birthday at the end of September, I grew up loving these Jewish holidays because it upped the odds of receiving a day off from …
What if Charles Schultz’s famous cartoon strip, Peanuts, actually aged out of childhood and into puberty? That’s what The Fine Brothers imagined in their most recent video, which makes me wonder, when was the last time you saw an animated child grow up? Hello, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park …
If you’d like to have your stories animated by a professional, then the new UCBeast show Animated Stories is for you. It makes its UCBeast debut on Oct. 13, 2011, and Animated Stories will include this story from Chris Gethard about being an evil baby. Like, really evil. October’s winner …
Today’s chosen one video from Funny or Die certainly holds reason to remain optimistic about Chris Kelly’s new gig as a writer at Saturday Night Live, because the concept of “The Vote Off” is brilliant. A reality competition that strips away all of the glitz, glamour or gimmicks and goes …
The hourlong “Weird” Al Yankovic special is coming around the corner when she comes, which is this Saturday, Oct. 1, on Comedy Central. “Weird Al” Yankovic Live! – The Alpocalypse Tour is his first TV special since 1999?!? So roll out the barrels of preview videos. This animated ditty, “Polka Face,” is …
A new season of SNL also brings other comedians out of the woodwork to say, “Hey, I did that comedy sketch first!” When it’s an absurd topic, you might have a case to make. When it’s the idea that a dying soldier would have terrible choices for his last request …
It’s not easy being a woman in a male-dominated profession, and comedy is no different. Except that it certainly feels different. Because even when women in comedy are funny and try to make fun of this situation, it can go awry. Like, oh, I don’t know, take today’s offering on …
The other night, FX’s Rescue Me ended its run, and during the finale, WeightWatchers ran a commercial featuring comedian and Rescue Me co-star Lenny Clarke. Roll the clip! Looking good, Lenny! We’ll see you again on our TVs soon enough as he’ll be playing Chelsea Handler’s father on the NBC …
This is a piece of flash-sideways brilliance, as Jon Daly showcases his off-kilter impersonations by re-doing Nicolas Cage movie scenes as Ticklish Cage. But who is the person who keeps tickling him during filming? How does he get there? At least one of those answers will be revealed in this …
Here is a treat for fans of the 2001 comedy film, Wet Hot American Summer. Singer/songwriter Ken Webb has written an ode to Gene, the camp’s cook played by Christopher Meloni (whom you all recognize from Law & Order: SVU). It’s called, well, “The Ballad of Gene.” Roll the clip!
