The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Twas the day after the day after Christmas, so now it’s safe to take another look at comedic takes on the song, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” You may have loved watching Jimmy Fallon and Cecily Strong put their spin on the Christmastime song in last weekend’s Saturday Night Live. Of …
Here’s a #TBT for you from July 2010, when Donald Glover ventured to Montreal to receive a rising comedy star award from Just For Laughs — he also performed as his hip-hop alter ego, Childish Gambino, both at the official JFL party as well as at Doug Stanhope’s “car wash” …
You know it’s a full-fledged comedy boom when they’re manufacturing and marketing stand-up comedy toys for kids! From friend of the site J.P. Buck came a #LastMinuteGifts photo of a “Clap & Laugh Microphone Set” on sale for $29.99. From the company Toys To Grow On, it’s marketed to children …
Whether or not you see The Wolf of Wall Street this Christmas, you’ve already likely seen the dance moves star Leonardo DiCaprio puts on in a scene shown in many of the trailers — comedian/actor Henry Zebrowski is right there grooving along, too, in between DiCaprio and Jonah Hill. My …
The UCB pitched this video in an email as if it were one of those dumb misleading Upworthy things, and you’ll never believe what happened next: I still wrote a post about it! MERRY CHRISTMAS! Watch as Santa (Flytracker) and his helper elf (Shockwave, aka Chris Sullivan) treat tourists and …
Improv comedy fans received an early Christmas and New Year’s present when Showtime announced it’s airing a long-form comedy special with Ben Schwartz and his cast mates from the network’s House of Lies for New Year’s Eve. Schwartz executive produced the project HOUSE OF LIES LIVE!, and wrote on Monday: …
Six years ago, I left behind a career as a newspaper reporter — working beats from City Hall to police, utility districts, general assignments, features and entertainment in newspapers across the country — to start The Comic’s Comic because nobody cared enough to devote full-time resources to covering comedy as …
J-L Cauvin found funny earlier this year by impersonating Louis C.K. telling and selling classic jokes, so here he is once more as 2013 turns into 2014, Cauvin one-ups himself by producing and starring in a webseries, “Louis CK’s Comedy Academy.” You want to be a comedian, you say? Watch …
The Christmas holiday edition of Saturday Night Live usually offers something special for viewers and cast alike — from the big-time surprise celebrity cameos, to Christmas cheer, to the now-traditional post-SNL all-skate on the rink outside 30 Rock at Rockefeller Plaza. Add in a host who’s not only a cherished …
Real men do eat quiche. And so do manchildren. Steve Rannazzisi ordered a quiche right in front of me on Thursday at Le Pain Quotidien across the street from Rockefeller Plaza. If the thought of that leaves a weird taste in your mouth, get a load of this clip from …
