My Extras special interview with Ricky Gervais
by Ricky Gervais welcomes me into a nondescript conference room at HBO’s Midtown Manhattan offices, looking cool and casual. Wait. I’m not writing some sort of …
ECNY Award nominees announced
This just in…The ECNY Awards are back this year, and they’ve announced their list of 2007 nominees. Winners to be announced Jan. 28, 2008, at …
Comedians, on comedy and the industry
If you want to find common ground among comedians, no matter whether they consider themselves club comics or "alternative" comics, observational or prop, just ask …
Richard Pryor, Live on the Sunset Strip
Showtime aired Richard Pryor’s 1982 stand-up concert film, Live on the Sunset Strip, early this morning, and when you watch it 25 years later, you …
Larry the Cable Guy’s Christmas Spectacular?
As a child, returning home from vacation never sounded much like fun, but one of the few joys was seeing the huge pile of mail …
Keeping up with the Kardashians
I signed a release form today for my likeness to appear on E! and Keeping Up With The Kardashians. That’s a little more than slightly …
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Gabe & Max, bong bong for Boing Boing
Gabriel Delahaye and Max Silvestri produced a short video about Internet tips that tore up the Internet so much that the folks at Boing Boing …
Dave Attell, not quite “Miserable” yet
Dave Attell is watching a clip of himself from Comedy Central’s Last Laugh ’07 on my cell phone (thank you, Verizon LG Voyager!). He’s joking …
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One-time-only lesson for comedy marketing
Name-dropping works. At least the first time. Thanks, Stuckey & Murray. Their show, Slightly Buzzed, is tonight at Rififi. This is their ode to people …
RIP, Rasheed Thurmond
Funeral services were held earlier today for Brooklyn comedian Rasheed Thurmond, who died last week of a heart attack, much too soon at 36. The …