The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jerry Seinfeld made a gabillion dollars by making a hugely successful TV sitcom called Seinfeld. When he returned to network television more than a decade later, Seinfeld and his comedy buddies were mocking married couples in The Marriage Ref. Now he’s launching a webseries with Crackle (with Crackle!?!) in which …
Bill Murray, aside from being famously funny, also famously doesn’t have a publicist or a manager, or really even an agent to handle his calls. Instead, Murray has a toll-free telephone number. Call him. Make him an offer. If he doesn’t refuse it, he’ll call you back. Maybe even work …
Maria Thayer co-stars in Chris Elliott’s ridiculously over-the-top cop show parody Eagleheart, which airs its second-season finale tonight on Adult Swim. It should return for a third season. But what if it doesn’t?!? That’d mean Thayer would have to start auditioning again for new roles. She has plenty of experience …
Big day in U.S. politics, eh? The U.S. Supreme Court upheld much of President Barack Obama’s law expanding health-care accessibility with a 5-4 ruling today. Even so, the presumptive GOP presidential challenger, Mitt Romney, immediately made a speech upholding his demands to repeal the law if he’s elected. Despite the …
Whereas online video sites such as my colleagues at My Damn Channel, or lesser-known but well-funded operations such as Revision3 or Sony’s Crackle, have been pumping out original webseries for years now to compete with old-school TV, we’ve begun seeing new content come out of the heavy-hitter sites that had …
As if you need to be reminded, but Funny or Die is producing a special half-hour episode of its popular webseries, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, which will premiere on Sunday, May 6, immediately before the second annual Comedy Awards on Comedy Central. The special, Between Two Ferns: A …
Anyone can throw on a mask and pretend to be a Mexican wrestler for laughs. Just ask Jack Black, who employed this method to great effect in 2006 for Nacho Libre. Or go back in time to Seattle, before the Y2K virus wiped out life on Earth, and a time …
In case you don’t listen to the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast as soon as Earwolf releases a new one to you hounds, then here’s the news as delivered by Scott Aukerman in the third-year finale of CBB: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is going a full half-hour! On TV! …
With a new production studio almost ready to go…My Damn Channel unveiled a new online look today and also announced its plans for My Damn Channel LIVE, a new live weekday comedy show hosted by Beth Hoyt that will debut at 4 p.m. Eastern, March 28, on YouTube. Hoyt will …
Comedy Central has begun consolidating its various digital entities, and that means switching domain names of Atom.com and Jokes.com to fall under the main Comedy Central umbrella. Up first, CC: Studios — which has taken all of the various web series and “viral” video candidates that had appeared on Atom.com …
