The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It's no secret that anytime Glennis McMurray and Eliza Skinner get together onstage and ask for an audience suggestion, they give birth to wonderfully improvised I Eat Pandas musicals, usually with the accompaniment of pianist Frank Spitznagel. You can see this for yourself fairly regularly in New York City (next …
Remember that original joke up for auction at eBay by a staff writer from The Onion? Bidding closed this afternoon, topping out at $365. Reading the more than 100 Q&As about the auction? Free!
This just in: The Minnesota Supreme Court has rejected Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman's bid to extend his lengthy recount fight with Democratic challenger, satirist Al Franken. Franken, who entered the recount down by 215 votes out of more than 2.9 million cast on Nov. 4, currently holds a …
By almost any indication, the 50 First Jokes show on Saturday night was a rousing success. A packed lounge at Webster Hall. An advance write-up in the New York Times. In just one of the four groups, we heard Jesse Popp reveal some of Mayor Bloomberg's new laws taking hold …
Front Page Films, aka filmmaker Oren Brimer and comedians Matt McCarthy and Pete Holmes, have cracked the final five for Doritos open call contest for a Super Bowl commercial. Their ad, "New Flavor Pitch," also features Glennis McMurray and Jay Bois. The crew recently made the finals of a similar …
So much to do today, this week, this year, that I'm living in that Jim Gaffigan joke wherein I'd much rather crawl back in bed and take a nap. Do you feel that way? If so, please join me in this time out of sorts, sit back and enjoy some …
Sunday's Arts section of The New York Times gives the full, fluffy profile treatment to Kristen Wiig, anointing her the new reigning female comedian of the moment on Saturday Night Live, with a quick sidebar glance at the other women on the show: Casey Wilson, Michaela Watkins and Abby Elliott, …
The first new stand-up comedy special of 2009 debuts tonight, as Comedy Central presents Jo Koy: Don't Make Him Angry. Taped in November in New York City, this special was the network's main addition to the New York Comedy Festival lineup (related review here). Here is a preview clip, in …
That new midseason game show hosted by Joe Rogan and produced by Ashton Kutcher, Game Show in My Head, debuts Saturday on CBS. Before I saw the clip, I thought, well, it's a combination of their past shows Fear Factor and Punk'd. Not a bad guess. Turns out the show …
Hey, comedy fans. I'm heading out the door to meet up with Dylan from PunchlineMagazine and Todd from Dead-Frog for our first unofficial official comedy blogger summit on-air this afternoon with Comical Radio. OK, so Danny is calling it a comedy blog "war" but I'm not buying it because we're …