The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In the mid-1990s, comedian Jessie Baade (aka Jessie Robles) attempted a documentary on comedy. It did not get finished. But Baade still had the video of her 1994 interview with Greg Giraldo, then just two years into his stand-up career. It's not always easy to watch. Giraldo isn't sure how …
Happy birthday, Zach Galifianakis! Coincidentally, a fan has mashed up clips of your Funny or Die series, Between Two Ferns, with the trailer for the new movie, The Social Network. Roll it. Also this week, we got to hear more about your background, including such tidbits as working in a …
Remember the Comedy Central series, Shorties Watching Shorties? Taking a stand-up comedian's bits and animating them sometimes can be a wonderful way to, well, illustrate the story being told within the joke. OK, I clearly need to stay out of the sun. The heat is beating me down. But I …
Would you like what's behind Door #1 this morning? What if I were to tell you that it's Wayne Brady, Mike Tyson, Jamile McGee and Bobby Brown remaking Brown's music video for his 1988 hit, "Every Little Step," choreographed down to every little step? Don't believe me? Roll the clip! …
Sometimes I turn around and find that the UCB's Maude teams have altered their rosters. They don't ask me, nor do they always tell me. NYC-based sketch group High Treason has added Sue Galloway (30 Rock) to their team, which is great news for an already fun team. You can …
This just in from the offices of Comedy Central's Tosh.0. They call it "Most Perfect Internet Video Ever." Ingredients include kittens, creepy weirdos, skateboarders, accidents, Asian girls, Godzilla, and the inevitable groin injury. Pictured: Daniel Tosh, Chris Fairbanks. Pictured but in disguise: Joselyn Hughes. Roll it!
Certainly more than a few people scratched their heads or worse today when they turned on the TV and saw that not only was Stephen Colbert testifying before Congress, but that he was doing so in character. Who's idea was this, anyway? Lots of online kerfuffling over this one, because …
So, how about that new addition to NBC's formerly "Must See TV" Thursday night lineup, eh? Outsourced. Yeah. Lots of buzz about it. Most of it, not so good. According to overnight ratings, 7.44 million people tuned in for the premiere. Waiting to hear the full fallout from my friends …
Bill Burr's latest stand-up comedy special, Bill Burr: Let It Go, debuts tonight on Comedy Central. Burr lives in Los Angeles these days, but for the past few days, he was back in New York City and took a few minutes to chat with me on the sidewalk outside of …
If Slovin and Allen reunite onstage in disguise as Spy vs. Spy for a Jason Bourne spy-themed comedy variety show, then it only makes sense for me to surreptitiously record it, right? Or how about just the first couple of minutes, then? This cuts out before Leo Allen catches Eric …