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Hey, know how that presidential campaign between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nod is so fierce? Hey, know how those NBA Playoffs commercials splitting face time and voice time for competing players looks and sounds so neat? Wouldn’t it be nice if someone had the idea to …
Dead-Frog compares last week’s SNL cold open with an old live sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson doing something similar, but also quite superior. Hmmm. ChuckleDumper has a long interview with Tom Shillue (who since the interview has been on tour in Asia (Hong Kong, Manila, then into China) with Matt McCarthy, …
Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee from Arizona, has a new ad that shows what life would be like in 2013 if he were elected president. The folks at Shoot the Messenger spun this vision a year further to 2014. They unveiled this video at their live weekly show …
New York musical comedy team The Hazzards has a new music video out, titled "Always." Although I suspect that’s not the word, or even the phrase, that’ll be stuck in your head after watching and listening. A few comedians also get cameos (hello, Eric Andre and John F. O’Donnell). I …
We now interrupt this comedy blog with an important message from my friend Bex Schwartz, who not only says and writes witty things for the TV and looks pretty doing so, but also, somehow, for reasons not yet explained, can sing Fergalicious backwards. So, here she is, performing…"Suoicilagref." It’s not …
You’d think Zach Galifianakis would be the big man on any campus, but that did not prove to be the case with these coeds at the Ohio State University. We need to improve his profile. "I’m not homeless. I’m eccentric," he says. We believe you, Zach! Will any of this …
While more than a few writers in the 21st century have turned their blogs into books, Rob Kutner went the more traditional, old-school, route, securing a book proposal, writing the book, then finally going to blogs such as The Huffington Post to promote it. Kutner’s book, Apocalypse How, begins with …
This is not The Office spinoff, coming this fall to NBC, nor is it anywhere close to the realm of funny that was the Japanese version displayed on SNL this weekend, but this video set in an office with Craig Robinson and Ed Helms of The Office does show why …
The season finale closed the door on another edition of Saturday Night Live without any big cast announcements and the biggest surprise giving the Republican presidential candidate, Sen. John McCain, not one but two segments during the show. Almost as surprising? Opening the show with a sketch revolving around a …
Comedy Central aired Damon Wayans’ special, "Way Out," late Saturday night as part of its "secret stash" and here’s a clip in which Wayans isn’t exactly sold on the idea of electing either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton for president this year.