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While we wait to see if and when NBC puts the SNL sketch featuring Casey Wilson’s paralyzed stripper, Dusty Velvet, on the Internets, here is a similar sketch from the Groundlings, circa 2006, written and performed by Beth Crosby. Crosby’s stripper does have use of her arms, however, whereas Wilson’s …
If you had told me that the opening sketch would last nine minutes and 30 seconds, feature all nine regular cast members, and the premise would be Gen. Petraeus testifying before Congress in deadpan, I’d say, "Really?" And I’d mean it in the way Seth Meyers (the other cast member/head …
Reese Waters, who won the Carolines March Comedy Madness competition earlier this month, gets part of his prize last week with an interview on Good Morning America NOW (read: online) courtesy of Lee Woodruff (wife of Bob and co-host of an all-star special at last year’s New York Comedy Festival) …
New this week on CD and DVD, Robert Kelly presents Just the Tip. Before we get to the review, here is a very appropriate promo provided by Kelly himself, with Comedy Central’s Anne Harris. It’s an especially apt look at what you’re going to get on the DVD disc, which …
Shaun Majumder, co-starring in FOX midseason replacement sitcom Unhitched, closed out the 12th season of Comedy Central Presents on Friday night. Here are two highlights from his half-hour special:
The season two finale of Human Giant airs on the MTV on Tuesday, April 15, but this video has just leaked to the Internets. Rob Huebel tries his darnedest to intro a news piece for "Meth in Montana." Enjoy!
Kumail Nanjiani’s one-man show, Unpronounceable, plays at 8 p.m. April 11 and April 25 at the UCB Theatre in New York City. (Tickets: $8. Info) Some reviews of Kumail Nanjiani’s one-man show (which debuted in Chicago under the direction of Paul Provenza, and has moved with him to New York …
Tickets go on sale at noon today for the two New York City dates at Town Hall for Flight of the Conchords, so I thought I’d look and see what other comedy tours are hot sellers. Flight of the Conchords at Town Hall (NYC) May 6-7. Get tickets!Lewis Black has …
This just in. YouTube user kdlmd243, who previously has uploaded NBC promotional content for our mutual enjoyment, now provides us with five "unaired" and "uncensored" looks at the upcoming season of Last Comic Standing 6 (a tip of the hat to my friend Todd at Dead-Frog for finding this). It’s …
Around the same time that Jon Glaser’s Barack Obama-sistible song parody hit the Internets, the folks at 23/6 also decided to pluck a YouTube video from obscurity and shine a spotlight on the McCain Girls. Coincidence? The Washington Post didn’t think so, and suggested a connection in a March 24 …