The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A year ago, I had the privilege of visiting the set of the upcoming movie, Due Date, starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. I watched as director Todd Phillips shot the "meet-cute" scene early in the film — with the airport in Ontario, Calif., subbing for the airport in …
Some of you may wonder how a 20-year-old stand-up comedian who plays the piano can generate so much coverage. Perhaps it's because he is truly the next-generation comedian. Perhaps Bo Burnham is so plugged into comedy as a so-called "Milennial" that he is paving the way for all of the …
File this under odd occurrences. Last night in late-night TV, Dana Carvey was a guest on Late Show with David Letterman and did all sorts of voices, reminiscing about "Chopping Broccoli" and Johnny Carson, and impersonating several celebrities. Carvey also impersonated both Jay Leno and Robin Williams, and after he …
It's the 70th anniversary of OXI Day, the day when the Greeks rejected an ultimatum from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini on Oct. 28, 1940. I know this thanks, in part, to Mr. Panos. Who is Mr. Panos? Roll the clip! Mr. Panos, in fact, is the brainchild of New …
Vanessa Bayer is a featured cast member on Saturday Night Live this season. Three years ago, she was just another single face on Comcast's Dating on Demand. If you were in Chicago in 2007, you could have looked her up on your cable TV as sassy2 and asked her out …
The Upright Citizens Brigade didn't ask that question, although their latest video from The Brig certainly raises the point. Everyone is going pink in October to raise awareness about breast cancer. Even the NFL is in the game this month with pink cleats and towels. So why not Big Tobacco? …
Who knows what goes on inside the mind of Gilbert Gottfried? In this new short film he made himself, the comedian transforms himself into a "Scary Monster." This is how Gottfried explains it: "I threw this film together with a pocket camera. I did the makeup myself from shit I …
The Last Comic Standing 7 tour rolled through a rainy New York City last week, and the fellas were kind enough to invite me over to hang out with them backstage at the Best Buy Theater (formerly Nokia) in Times Square. For Jonathan Thymius, it was his first chance to …
Conan O'Brien and Team Coco briefly took over the front page of YouTube with a 24-hour event that has streamed live over the Internet. In the latest promotional stunt to remind and alert viewers of Conan's return to late-night TV with Conan on TBS on Nov. 8, the "Live Coco …
On my recent sojourn to Hollywood, comedian Jon Daly told me he had produced something close to awesome with Fabio that would be appearing on Funny or Die. Today is the day we get that much closer to awesome. While the people who don't know any better just think Fabio …