The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As the Carnival Triumph cruise ship endured a slow-tow across the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, following several days stranded at sea after losing power, comedians jumped aboard the Twitter joke parade — not to make fun of the passengers, per se, but to note that one of them was …
Jerry Seinfeld returned to Late Show with David Letterman tonight, but on this trip, Letterman turned the tables on Seinfeld, asking when he might be invited as a guest on Jerry’s webseries for Crackle, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Well. Would he? Could he? Should he? Seinfeld joked about Letterman …
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, get ready to get your heart broken into a million funny pieces all over again with the second-season debut of Burning Love. The Burning Love webseries on parodies The Bachelor and The Bachelorette so well that it’s making the leap from web to TV. …
Republished with permission from comedian John Roy (photographed above by Mindy Tucker). Week Two will go online Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Your homework is included below. If you want to catch up with the rest of the “students” in John Roy‘s comedy class, best get started now! My Entirely Free …
Happy Valentine’s Day! “We should break up.” No. “We Should Break Up.” That’s the webseries from Nikki Glaser and Joe DeRosa for Official Comedy that takes what once was a real-life relationship between the two stand-up comedians (wait, really?) and mines it for comedy gold. For you. On Valentine’s Day. …
Synergy! Bruce Willis stars in A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth installment in the Die Hard movie franchise. Yes, there are five of them now. And Willis already has said a sixth Die Hard is on the way. Mostly to keep pace with Fast and the Furious movies, …
Congratulations to Neal Brennan, Dov Davidoff, Michael Kosta, Kevin Smith and Ali Wong, who are the first named comedians (and filmmaker/talker — looking at you, Kevin Smith!) to film their own mini-sitcoms for network TV today under the auspices of FOX’s Shortcom Comedy Hour. Smith talked about his deal this …
Jackie Kashian made her late-night TV debut last night on Conan, and what did we learn? For one thing, marrying a nerd who plays video games and reads comic books is good for fidelity and security, because it “keeps him off the pipe, keeps him off the pole.” For another, …
Hasan Minhaj hosts the new MTV weekly series, Failosophy, premiering Thursday night and shining the harsh spotlight of reality on our everyday failures online — via text message, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and elsewhere else mistakes are made. Minhaj chatted exclusively with The Comic’s Comic to provide some real-life advice …
If you’ve been following the discussion regarding stand-up comedians, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theaters in New York City, and the issue of whether a comedy community can be communal and eschew capitalism whilst also trying to make money to pay bills and employees, too… Or if you haven’t, brush up …
