The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I hope Jimmy Fallon paid comedian Patrick Borelli to do part of Borelli’s one-man show about book covers. Oh, wait. He has paid Borelli? Borelli is on staff with Late Night with Jimmy Fallon now! Great news, then! Hooray for Patrick! Score! It’s still kind of weird, though, to see …
I don't know who in their right mind would want a bag of flour dressed up like a cat dressed up like a baby, but then again, I'm not a lady. Several more steps in the operational process to go. Wish me luck! In the meantime, I'll let these lovely …
We're just a few days away from the start of the 12th annual Del Close Marathon — that's DCM12 for short (and for Twitter hashtag purposes) — and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has released the footage from the show that's always a DCM showstopper: That late-late-night Saturday all-star showcase …
When Paul Rust isn't writing a screenplay for Pee-wee Herman, Harris Wittels isn't writing an episode of Parks and Recreation, and Michael Cassady isn't appearing in TV episodes or the UCB-LA Harold Team Arts & Athletics and sketch team A Kiss From Daddy, the trio is making comedy music together …
Ron Babcock, when he's not doing the comedy on the stage, he conducts the hard-hitting interviews for Asylumn.com. Except when he gets the chance to meet Betty White. In which case, Babcock just wants to get a little bit closer. What advice can White give him to help his cause? …
The fourth season of AMC's critically-acclaimed Mad Men begins on Sunday with a new season set in the 1960s in New York City, but wouldn't you rather watch the current-day MA Men of Boston? They've got to figure out who will say "Time to make the donuts" in a new …
Resisted the urge to delete this email from a publicist for a large corporation, because I could not resist the urge to engage in wordplay. The people at Wheat Thins sponsored this video of comedian Baron Vaughn at this summer's Bonnaroo in Tennessee, interviewing several of the music and comedy …
If you watched this week's episode of Louie on FX, the first-half called "Travel Day" included a flight experience gone awry, with a cameo by Todd Glass as a chatty passenger! But Louis CK (who also voiced the pilot of his fictional TV flight) has previous experience shouting out obscenities …
Rare is the show that receives enough widespread raves to double the audience overnight, only to then exceed everyone's expectations. This was that show. This was the show, unless something happens in the next two nights of Just For Laughs in Montreal to eclipse it. This was AMP'd. Musical comedy …
How was your Fourth of July weekend? Did you enjoy it? Did you have an outdoor BBQ? Of course you did. Probably. Regardless, the CollegeHumor players (is that the name of their comedy troupe?) have constructed a heaping plate of allegory, or is it metaphors, showing how everything at President …