The Definitive Guide to Comedy
This is a big weekend for Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter. Not only are they celebrating a reunion with both The State and Stella this weekend at the SF Sketchfest, but they're also getting a new series together on Comedy Central. I'd heard rumblings that the pilot had gotten …
Voting ends today to help determine the outcomes of two national online contests, although I'm about to tell you how one is more important than the other. I previously have described how the New York City comedians from Front Page Films had one of the final five Cylons, er, no, …
Patton Oswalt sat down on the Sundance Channel couch with his cast and writer/director (former Onion guy and writer of The Wrestler) Robert Siegel for his new movie, Big Fan, filmed on Staten Island and starring Oswalt as an obsessed fan of the New York Giants. Fans of Oswalt know …
The Apiary talks with Ann Carr, who is branching out from her already creative short-form character work to explore herself and her career in a new one-woman show, Use It. Her advice to other performers: "Just do the work and dedicate yourself to it. Energy begets like energy. Keep close …
New York magazine gave WKUK frontman Trevor Moore the 21-question treatment yesterday. They asked if he likes the old or new Times Square better. His reply? "That's like asking if you'd prefer to hang out with a scary, stinky whore or a loud, annoying cartoon character." Catch The Whitest Kids …
In just the past 24 hours, we've seen the nominations revealed for the Academy Awards and what the academy deemed the best film work of 2008, and also the Golden Raspberry Awards, with fans determining the worst cinema dreck from last year. While you typically see unfunny comedies make the …
Conan O'Brien will tell you he is not an actor, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have plenty of stories to tell, and he shall share some of them on a special two-hour edition Monday of Bravo's Inside the Actors Studio. Conan has a month left in his Late Night …
When I saw The Daily Show with Jon Stewart was going live last night on Comedy Central, at first I lowered my expectations, because their live editions in the past on election nights have been, well, not so funny. And this was the inauguration of President Barack Obama. How would …
Congratulations are in order for the folks at Ars Nova, the New York City theater and production company that made its first foray into feature films with the blaxploitation spoof, Black Dynamite, got it into Sundance and earlier this week sold the distribution rights to Sony Pictures for about $2 …
If you're still stumped trying to figure out if you know any and/or all of the New York City comedians depicted in cartoon form in MAD magazine, then Ken Pringle at Chucklemonkey has your answers, including what appears to be the photos used by artist Rick Tulka. How many did …