The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As ESPN has been rolling out individual city sites for its online sports empire, the network has introduced specialty programming, and in ESPN New York, that includes weekly doses of comedy thanks to "The Pretty Good Sports Show." It's hosted by New York City comedians Adam Lustick (Harvard Sailing Team, …
Making animated videos about the inner workings and failings of the comedy club world has become a late-summer sensation for the comedy community, thanks to the technology of xtranormal. Now the comedian who posted the first "Stand-Up Comedy is Not Pretty" video, and a club owner who has posted another …
This promotional video for the Ha-Ha Good Time Comedy Fun School features Matt Braunger, Jimmy Dore, Ryan Stout, "student" Ron Babcock and others. It's clearly a parody of the actual Stand-Up Boot Camp run by Kyle Cease and Louie Anderson. Are you ready? Set? Watch! Furthermore: Way back in olden …
Xtranormal is an online video resource that allows you to animate your own scripts within a limited variety of scenes and characters. Sounds like fun, right? Well, a couple of people have decided to give us a look at a couple of the more unpleasant parts of the stand-up comedy …
My friends at Asylum caught up with comedian Jon Glaser on the set of his Adult Swim series, Delocated (airing Sunday nights, two episodes into the second season, which I hope and trust you're all watching because it's now twice as fun at a half-hour length!). And Glaser had these …
Nick Stevens and I have more in common than just our obsession with Boston sports teams. We also find the infomercials for the Cami Secret to be one of the more ridiculous things out there. I cannot get past wondering why women would buy and wear the tops that reveal …
The final (final final?) DVDs for Lost officially became available today, complete with a 12-minute epilogue showing a glimpse of what happened to Ben, Hurley and even Walt after the finale. But what about Ethan? You think he may have died, didn't you? The folks at UCB Comedy show us …
The original TV ads for the My Buddy doll was creepy enough, lest I need to remind you, but comedian Brent Weinbach has reminded us all by showing us what the original ad really looked like. What's even weirder? I used to think Brent Weinbach was a grown-up My Buddy …
What do Ted Leo and the Pharmacists need to do to get their music noticed by the people? In the official music video for their song, "Bottled in Cork," Paul F. Tompkins plays Reginald Van Voorst, who thinks what the band needs to do is to turn their album into …
Remember all the way back a couple of weeks ago when Pee-wee Herman filed a correspondent report for Jay Leno about his trip to the Sturgis motorcycle rally? Whether you've seen that or not, here's a second perspective on Pee-wee's weekend with the hogs of Harley-Davidson, courtesy of Funny or …