The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sure, most everyone is talking politics and Wall Street, but the news also makes it a great time for comedy, and there’s plenty of new stand-up and sketch comedy on TV this weekend, with the debut tonight at midnight of Down and Dirty with Jim Norton on HBO, Louis C.K.’s …
The 2008 edition of New York City’s Underground Comedy Festival begins tonight and continues through Oct. 12 in several venues around Manhattan. Highlights on Sunday include a private event, Comedy Fights Cancer, for patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering in the afternoon, the highly self-important New York’s Funniest Reporter show at …
This may or may not be the craziest commercial product tie-in to this year’s Indiana Jones movie, or it may be the shrewdest way to get people thinking about Ghostbusters 3, but either way, Dan Akyroyd’s infomercial pitch for Crystal Head Vodka will make you pause several times and wonder, …
If you watch any of the Major League Baseball playoffs on TBS, you’ll end up seeing quite a bit of Frank Caliendo as the network promotes the second season of Frank TV, which returns Oct. 21. Caliendo also pops up quite a bit in TV ads for Dish TV service, …
Perhaps you happened upon the Gotham Comedy Club site or walked past the club itself and saw that the sign on Wednesday night advertised a Seinfeld Workshop. What does that mean, exactly? Online, the supposed "Jerry Seinfeld Comedy Workshop" featured comedian Jon Fisch, which might have prompted the question, is …
The folks at Montreal’s Just For Laughs uploaded videos last week from its 2008 collection of comedians participating in the New Faces and Masters showcases, so you can finally see what I saw this summer. Rather than bombard you with two dozen embedded video clips, I’m going to embed one …
Some performing duos have odder interpersonal dynamics than others. Take The White Stripes. Great band, but they wanted us to think they were brother and sister, when really, they used to be married…to each other. OK. Perhaps you’ve also wondered how Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler get along offstage, too. …
Louis CK has a new stand-up comedy concert film (why aren’t we calling it a special? foreshadowing!) debuting on Showtime on Saturday, Oct. 4. It’s called Chewed Up and refers to a NSFW part of anatomy, and anyone familiar with CK knows that his brutally honest comedy is also quite …
Sometimes, all blogs that share a love of funny things can agree to love the same funny thing, even when we know we’re making PR people feel even better about their jobs. Such is the case with me and my friends at Dead-Frog and Videogum, in that we all want …
I recently got on the phone with the boys from God’s Pottery. You can read part of our chat in print in today’s New York City edition of the Metro newspaper, in advance of their Thursday, Oct. 2, show here at Comix. Or you can read all of it, right …