The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 2011 primetime Emmy nominations will be announced on Thursday morning by Melissa McCarthy (who stars in the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly, though you may know her best from this year’s hit movie, Bridesmaids). It seems like a thankless task, really. Getting up before first thing in the morning …
In what’s new with Will Forte news, it’s all good news. Forte just won a role in the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, Rock of Ages, joining a cast that includes Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Alec Baldwin, Malin Akerman, Bryan Cranston, Mary J. Blige, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julianne Hough and …
Oh, BriTANick. As one YouTube commenter put it today, "Oh my God. That was excellent. Now I know why it takes BriTANick so long toÔªø come out with new videos. They're so complex and impressive. God I love you guys!" You said it, YouTube. In the video for "Everything," it …
Bill Murray has another song about him. How many comedians have multiple songs named for them, anyhow? I suppose I could look into that. But first, here's the most recent "Bill Murray" track to get recorded, and Terrible People have done it. Terrible People, of course, is a rock band …
Argue all you want over whether Jon Stewart is a politician, but Stephen Colbert most definitely is. Or should I say, "Stephen Colbert," the character Colbert portrays on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. This morning in Washington, D.C., the Federal Elections Commission officially voted to grant his request to form …
Earlier this month, FOX News Sunday’s Chris Wallace confronted Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart about his comedy and supposed liberal bias, to which Stewart naturally responded with facts and the well-known truth that he is a comedian first and foremost, and not an ideologue. (Watch Stewart’s FOX News Sunday appearance if …
Plenty of great comedians have delivered graduation speeches to the college graduates of the class of 2011, and Stephen Colbert was no exception to the exceptional this week. Although Colbert, unlike say, Amy Poehler or Conan O’Brien, was talking to seniors at a college he had attended himself — Northwestern …
Remember this spring when I asked two stars of FX's The League how the series — which revolves around a group of friends who compete in fantasy football — would handle the NFL lockout this fall? Well, spring is turning into summer, and that means it's time for The League's …
Kudos to the brothers Walsh, David and Chris, for getting more mileage than I would have suspected for jumping in — er, rather, lying down upon — the "planking" fad. You see, today's dumb kids are currently enjoying lying down in public places and calling it planking, because they're supposed …
Ferris Bueller's Day Off hit cinemas 25 years ago this week, and if you were a teen-ager back then, then you loved the movie and wanted to be Ferris for a day yourself. Of course, it also means now you're old and shouldn't even be on the Internet. Get back …