The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Remember when CollegeHumor was just a website by college kids for college kids? Oh, the #TBT of it all. The kids of CollegeHumor may have grown up, expanded, moved into TV and film, but they’re still focused on making new, weird videos for people of all ages to enjoy. On …
Did you know Jim Gaffigan tried out for the Indianapolis Colts this summer? Yeah, well. Not a spoiler alert, but Gaffigan did not make the 2014 Colts team, or even the practice squad. But he did eat some donuts, more doughnuts, exchanged words with Andrew Luck and said Pat McAfee …
Perhaps you heard they cast a new dynamic duo to star in the second installment of HBO’s True Detective. Sure, Colin Farrell and Vince Vaughn are no Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey. But who is? At any rate. I’d definitely tune in to multiple seasons of Tiny Detectives, the parody …
Bo Burnham has released a new music video for his subversively sincere song, “Repeat Stuff.” How subversive? Burnham wrote this on his YouTube page for the video: “MUCH LOVE TO ALL MY FANS. SHOUT OUT TO SATAN, THE ILLUMINATI AND BUILDING 7. DEATH IS COMING AND CANNOT BE STOPPED. I …
The Comic’s Comic often feels reluctant to hype up the comedians who receive slots in ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, because they don’t always live up to that hype. But the Cha Cha and the Salsa were no match for Tommy Chong, still in the running after the first two …
In his new biography of SNL legend Phil Hartman out today, “You Might Remember Me: The Life and Times of Phil Hartman,” Chicago Sun-Times newspaper reporter Mike Thomas captures the man who represented “the glue” of Saturday Night Live during what many consider its greatest cast era of the late …
Last Comic Standing‘s final five finalists from this summer’s eighth season started a nationwide stand-up tour last week. Meanwhile, producers already have begun scouting potential stand-up contestants for Last Comic Standing 9 in 2015 — they looked at dozens of comedians last week in Los Angeles, last night in Boston …
To show he’s not just man, but also human, stand-up comedian Jerrod Carmichael has sponsored a PeeWee Football team. Of course, it’s all just in jest — to promote Carmichael’s first HBO comedy special, “Love at the Store,” directed by Spike Lee and premiering on Oct. 4, 2014. For football …
Congrats to Miss Michelle Buteau, who VH1 named last night as the new co-host for Big Morning Buzz when the live TV talk show and host Nick Lachey return with new episodes next Monday (Sept. 29, 2014). Here’s Buteau herself making the announcement Monday night (click the link in the …
The 18th season of South Park opens Wednesday night with a blitz against the Washington Redskins, and Comedy Central’s dynamic animated creative duo of Matt Stone and Trey Parker had this preview clip at the ready to broadcast during Sunday’s NFL game between Washington and the Philadelphia Eagles. The season premieres Wednesday …
