The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Murderfist is a NYC-based sketch group that has made a name for themselves as crazed comedic lunatics who do just about anything you can think of (and usually things you try not to think about) t0 earn laughs onstage. Their latest webseries, Huffin’ It, on My Damn Channel, is no different …
Here’s a clip you didn’t see on the first two seasons of FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, because it didn’t appear in any of those episodes! It’s Janine Brito, “dandy lesbian dandy” writer for the show, apologizing last year on behalf of Tracy Morgan, in the voice and …
Ian Edwards was back on Conan last night. Edwards enjoyed telling the audience about a trip he took to Israel, and how it made him feel as a black American male. Good times. He also has a friend who sleepwalks and does strange things such as cook full meals, or …
Joan Rivers was the official substitute host for Johnny Carson before she ever had her own late-night TV talk show. That was then. In 2013, you have YouTube, and now so does a Joan Rivers talk show. “In Bed With Joan,” a weekly half-hour chat show, launched this week with …
If Jon Stewart looks and sounds a bit more British this summer, that’s because John Oliver will be playing the role of “Jon Stewart” in Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Stewart is taking eight weeks off from the show this summer (plus the additional four weeks the show …
Last week’s episode of What Not To Wear on TLC opened with scenes shot in Gotham Comedy Club, where, for reasons that are never fully explained, hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly decide to surprise former Family Ties child star Tina Yothers. By roasting her from the audience. That’s not …
Earlier this week, DC Pierson uploaded a half-hour of his new stand-up comedy material to YouTube and gave it away for free to fans and potential new followers. As Pierson said in introducing his footage, “You’re about to watch 30 minutes of stand-up by me, DC Pierson. I put it …
People were going Hollywood long before Bing Crosby starred in the 1933 film musical Going Hollywood. Certainly, though, countless unknowns have packed their bags and moved to Los Angeles in the years and decades since then, hoping for show business to discover them and make them a star! New York …
“Happy employees = happy customers. Happy customers = happy shareholders.” That’s what Shaquille O’Neal told CBS News he had learned by May 2012, when he received his Doctorate in Education degree from Barry University, a private Catholic college in Miami. Casual observers — such as the upward of 6.8 million …
A few months ago, comedy director Jason Woliner decided to launch his own novelty T-shirt business, selling a parody of the red Che Guevara T-shirts that replaced Che’s face with that of Jay Leno. But he quickly backtracked from his “Che Leno” shirt, replacing it with a “Jay Guevara” shirt, …
