The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I wrote the story in this week’s Time Out NY about the Comic Strip Live‘s upcoming bid to set a Guinness World Record for longest stand-up comedy show with a 50-hour marathon that begins at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 3. Quotes from Dave Attell and Judah Friedlander. Hundreds of comedians …
Turns out Super Deluxe does still introduce new videos every now and then, if you know where to look (or even if you just stumble upon it), and today introduced the rap on O’Doul’s by NYC sketch group Olde English, which shows they’ve at least continued to embrace the voice …
My friends in comedy at Shecky Magazine and Comedy Juice both reporting today that comedian Mitch Mullany has died at 39. Shecky put a "rumor" headline on their post today after Mullany’s management company declined comment, but comedian Butch Bradley spread the sad news via MySpace this morning and Comedy …
Tim and Eric just posted a lengthy recap of their live spring Awesome Tour that’s full of photos, insight and sincere thoughts from the road. Example: They didn’t know what to expect in Asheville but loved it! "Possibly the greatest show we’ve ever done." For more NSFW photos, food-tossing, special …
Saturday Night Live may have wrapped up its season almost two weeks ago, but cast member Fred Armisen still has some backstage dish to share from the season finale on his NBC blog. He offers that having Steve Carell host meant seeing more than a few of Carell’s co-workers from …
The folks at Just For Laughs announced the lineup for this year’s Toronto fest from July 23-27, which follows the week after Montreal and is geared more for fans than for the industry. A link has been added to my Festivals page. Galas at Massey Hall feature host Martin Short …
If you watched the debut of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, then you also saw a curious contest within the contest called Last Comic Driving, in which 10 stand-up comedians who didn’t get picked for the show somehow (selection process not explained therein) got to compete for $10,000 cash and a …
Gothamist published a new interview with Demetri Martin today that doesn’t get a lot out of the comedian during their limited email correspondence, timed toward Martin’s late-night Tuesday series at Rififi (which continues tonight and June 3, doors at 10 p.m., $5) that has him trying out new jokes along …
Funny or Die now offers celebrity screensavers, and first up is Paul Rudd. Apparently, all you have to do is go to this site and click the appropriate Apple or PC button to download. Just a coincidence perhaps, that TypePad tells me this is post #666?! This video/screensaver is very …
Fresh off her first springtime stint on Saturday Night Live, newest cast member Casey Wilson has started blogging for Funny or Die. Her blog’s initial offerings include her pitches deemed too edgy for SNL and her attempt to answer the creepy crawling masses on the Internets. Thanks, Casey!