The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
As part of @midnight‘s weeklong sojourn to New York City, host Chris Hardwick has enlisted several local comedians and comedic actors to lend their Big Apple expertise to the game show. Here’s Dave Hill sitting in as the show’s “food critic” with a review of Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant …
There’s no My Pod Week this week because our main man with the master podcast plan, Mike Flinn, has been busy helping his podcast overlords at All Things Comedy. And they need your help, too. Here’s a pitch video released today by comedian Al Madrigal, who started the All Things …
As Netflix continues to add new stand-up comedy specials to its arsenal, Amazon had to counter. Today, Amazon announced it was buying Rooftop Comedy. Reuters broke the news, with a statement from Audible CEO Donald Katz that the company had been attracted by Rooftop’s content library and talent pool. Amazon bought …
Acting, charity work, and handsomeness. All of those things, plus a stand-up bit from Louis C.K., on this new special installment of “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis” and his guest, Bart Pit. Er. Brad Pitt. Yeah, that’s the fella. Roll the clip!
When Jay Leno signed off this spring as host of NBC’s The Tonight Show for his second time, he meant it. And some speculated Leno might wind up following his former network boss Jeff Zucker over to Zucker’s new network on cable and CNN. But Jay Leno’s Garage has remained …
I believe that children are our future, too. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Can you teach children of any age how to do comedy, though? And do they even know what AOL is? One of these questions is left unanswered in the new 12-episode AOL webseries, …
Remember when CollegeHumor was just a website by college kids for college kids? Oh, the #TBT of it all. The kids of CollegeHumor may have grown up, expanded, moved into TV and film, but they’re still focused on making new, weird videos for people of all ages to enjoy. On …
Perhaps you heard they cast a new dynamic duo to star in the second installment of HBO’s True Detective. Sure, Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn are no Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. But who is? At any rate. I’d definitely tune in to multiple seasons of Tiny Detectives, the parody …
The latest episode of Sound Advice with Janessa Slater — Vanessa Bayer’s music chat show parody webseries she produces with her brother, Jonah, for Above Average — finds her misguided media coach Janessa Slater pestering Demi Lovato today. Roll the clip! At the beginning of the week, though, both Bayer …
