The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Free tickets are available to this year’s Comedy Central Presents tapings in New York City, taping shows in pairs from Aug. 24-29, 2008 at the Hudson Theater. I believe Bo Burnham is setting a land-speed record by getting a half-hour TV special before he enrolls in college at NYU and …
Here’s a trend I’ve noticed this summer in online comedy videos: Comedians inserting themselves into TV and movies. It’s retro and new, all in one. Take the sketch group Summer of Tears, for instance, who imagine how characters really might react if one of their fellow high-school students was a …
Finally, after a number of roasts for non-comedians, Comedy Central has returned to salute one of our own, with the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget debuting at 10 p.m. Sunday. Here is the extended trailer: More clips after the jump.
See what happens when Greg Johnson doesn’t have a weekly comedy show to host and produce in New York City? He winds up running across the country. Naked. Wait. What? It’s "Liberation Day." (Other filming info here) Run, Greg, run! Don’t worry, it’s blurry…
For your consideration. This just surfaced online. Mottleys: "Boston’s newest comedy club!" Opening next month. I shall tell you all about it soon enough!
My friends at Gawker today created a graphic to explain the inner comedy circle of Judd Apatow, who seems to have a hand in almost every major comedy movie production in the past two years. Gawker presents Apatown:
While we all wait with bated breath to hear if anyone new has made it onto the cast of Saturday Night Live, the folks over at The Daily Show have not been shy to pull the trigger on hiring new correspondents, and I have to hand it to them. After …
Some of you know that I used to perform both improv and stand-up comedy. Some of you had no idea. Either way, I thought that if you’re going to come and visit and see what I have to say about the comedy world, then you might be curious to see …
After spending last year off-Broadway exploring her Vaudevillian side, Margaret Cho returned to stand-up this year, and also is returning to TV with her own "reality" program, The Cho Show, debuting Aug. 21 on VH1. Here is the "supertrailer" for it: VH1 TV Shows Music Videos Celebrity Photos News & …
Dana Carvey talks to the San Jose Mercury News about returning to stand-up after "semi-retiring" to be a husband and father: "I’ve been at this for 25 years," Carvey says. "I did SNL. I did some movies. My kids have grown up. I’ve saved a lot of money — that …