The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The new iPhone 3G isn’t even available yet, and already, Seth Morris and the good folks at Funny or Die have figured out how to put all of the new faster, simpler technology to use. Let’s just say their tips are for work, but not exactly safe for work. <a …
How many times have you opened up a Penthouse magazine and found a ventriloquist posing with her dummy? That’s among sentences I never thought I’d type. But there she is, my friend Carla Rhodes, posing with Cecil in the new issue of Penthouse that hits newsstands today. Enjoy!
This weekend marks the fourth annual . Plenty of videos and interviews on the festival’s online home page this week to get you excited about the shows, happening June 12-14 at the UCB Theatre. Tickets: $10 show/$40 night/$100 full pass. Here’s a video to pump you up…thanks Dirty Jean & …
My friends at Punchline Magazine got permission to reprint a chapter from Chelsea Handler‘s best-selling essay collection, Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea. In this essay, Chelsea reflects on how much she already knew about her show business career as a 9-year-old. Want the book? Click on the button.
The folks at ChuckleDumper don’t merely assemble daily links to funny stuff, but sometimes also contribute original material of their own, such as this interview with Christian Finnegan they’ve posted today. Here is Finnegan addressing the nature of writing new material and jokes he finds funny… But, everybody has their …
Speaking of great strides in 23/6 political music parodies…Detroit Octane is set to be the musical guest for the June 17 program of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. So, I suppose they’re going to perform Barack Obamasistible, then? Or do they have something new up their sleeves?
Hiding out from the heat, still, and my Google Reader points me to Videogum, who’s on top of the video situation, as always, and alerts me to the presence of a new McCain Girls video. This time, the Girls are asked to act more than they ever had before, the …
You didn’t think I sat through more than 50 hours of stand-up comedy last week and forgot to get some video of it, did you? So here’s a scattered selection of footage from the world record comedy show last week at Comic Strip Live. But first, let’s reflect on what …
Most comedians agree that once you’ve told a joke on TV, you’ve "burned" it and need to be wary of using it again and again in your live act. Which brings me to Gerry Dee. I like him. I like his jokes. But my big complaint about Dee is that …
Your TiVo or DVR is not playing tricks on you today. Gabe & Jenny’s favorite TV show, The Bill Engvall Show, will get a one-time airing tonight at 8 p.m. on the CBS television network. CBS and TBS made a marketing tit-for-tat shaky-shake deal, in which CBS plays an episode …