The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Attending the final Kissing Booth show last night at The Tank, you saw how New York City’s comedy scene is big enough to have communities within communities, and this alternative to the alternative comedy, hosted by the whimsical duo of Brandy Barber and Sara Jo Allocco, welcomed one and all …
Baron Vaughn discusses the peculiarities of the "10-second rule," or however many seconds it may be in the town where you grew up. More tonight on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham (10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific). Updated, with another clip in which Vaughn talks about the Web site for the Klan. Yes, …
New York magazine has a nice feature this week on UCB’s Charlie Todd and his Improv Everywhere movement, suggesting that it might not make it on TV because, well, it’s not mean enough. How about them apples? In related news, Todd launched a new blog, Urban Prankster, to chart like-minded …
While Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel are entertaining the music festival crowd at Bonnaroo, their Human Giant co-star Aziz Ansari is busy getting himself cast on network primetime television in the NBC spinoff of The Office. As Ansari writes on his blog: I haven’t been this excited since Lisa lost …
If you knew nothing about comedy and turned on NBC tonight, the first few minutes of Last Comic Standing would not help you discern whether Americans actually have a sense of humor. And the celebrity judges from The Office, Kate Flannery and Brian Baumgartner are not helping matters. First up …
If you’re in Tennessee for Bonnaroo, please say hi to Janeane Garofalo for me. She doesn’t have an email or use the Internet, so she likely won’t be reading this. That’s one of many things you might learn about Garofalo in her interview for Unmasked on XM satellite radio, which …
Chris Rock just got back from South Africa, and cannot believe the way he was punked there last weekend. Particularly after having to deal with too much craziness with Anthony Pellicano and his trial earlier this year, these punks had the nerve to accuse Rock of statutory rape? Rock popped …
The political parody site, 23/6, opens up an investigative reporting wing with this new series, Exposed. In the first episode, political "comedian" Barry Goldstein gets his comeuppance. With cameos by Michael Showalter and Mike Birbiglia, shot in part at Union Hall in Brooklyn. Enjoy. 236.com: ExposedUploaded by twentythreesix
Harland Williams has written 21 short comedic pieces for upstart Internet network KoldCast TV, and the first of what should be weekly installments on KoldCast (as well as on YouTube) appeared today. Here is Williams discussing "Dirty Internet Terms." On YouTube, it’s here. Makes me want to blog right now! …
This Just In (ahem!)…HBO has bought part of Funny or Die and ordered 10 half-hours of programming from the online video site! "We do know we want it to be in the same family of the comedy that we’re doing on the website — just a wide range of anything …