The Definitive Guide to Comedy
One of Rob Lathan‘s many crazed characters is Dr. Lanny Latham, who can be hired, and apparently has been hired before, to pump up your seminar with his "Get Psyched!" See, there’s a video and everything. Lathan also will be getting you psyched up tonight at the UCB Theatre, and …
Rob Riggle went out in the field, way out to Iraq last year to file actual reports for The Daily Show, and now he has done it again. This time: China! His nightly reports, "Chasing the Dragon," begin airing Monday, Aug. 11. The Summer Olympics are there. You may have …
The New York Comedy Festival today announced it has entered a multi-year partnership deal with Comedy Central, which means Caroline Hirsch’s annual celebration of big-name comedy in the Big Apple now will get a bigger TV presence. The deal includes an annual Comedy Central special, and perhaps more. So the …
Julie Klausner and Michael Kupperman produced three shorty shorts on video for Super Deluxe, and right about now, you’re thinking, oh, I probably never saw them because I’ve stopped clicking to Super Deluxe, and even when I did, I probably missed it because it never showed up on the home …
A lot of comedy records and DVDs out this week, and Bill Burr‘s CD version of "Why Do I Do This?" is among them. It’s great. Explicit. Brutal. Honest. I was there for the taping, and for that reason (plus having watched the DVD extras), I can also tell you …
Used to be the Sunday paper had all of the big news that everyone would be talking about on Monday and the next day, and the day after that. But apparently, no one reads newspapers anymore. And people on the Internet cannot be bothered to pay attention. Even when it …
On last week’s episode of Root of All Evil, Patton Oswalt successfully argued that blogging, and not ultimate fighting, was the root of all evil. But Oswalt blogs. Does that mean he’s evil? Or is he only evil if he updates his MySpace blog? Of course not. Although it certainly …
Early on in John Roy‘s new CD, Dressed For Recess, you can hear why Roy has become a popular comedian on the college circuit, as well as what made him the first "new" comedy winner when CBS revamped Star Search in 2003. Recorded at his hometown Chicago club, Zanies, Roy …
Far be it for me to want to contribute to the publicity for Paris Hilton, but the people from Funny or Die left me no choice. The folks at FOD certainly have continued to display their previously learned abilities to jump on newsworthy items (abilities honed during their time working …
Yeah, I didn’t believe I wrote that headline, either. But here it is, video evidence that our next president, whether he be Barack Obama or John McCain, has consented to participating in a "campaign" ad for Last Comic Standing, and you can see these messages on your TV screens this …