The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Get out of town, it’s a new Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis! It might have been Grammy night where you were, but here on the Internet, it’s all about the Academy Awards and the Oscar buzzzzzzzzzzz. Galifianakis and Funny or Die have five times the fun in this special …
I’m using hi-def recording equipment to replace all of the screams from this week’s Saturday Night Live so I can figure out what the comedians were saying to host and musical guest Justin Bieber, as well as why Whoopi Goldberg was there. Once understood, then we can recap this and …
And you thought February was Black History Month. In the world of FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, it’s also a great time to share great moments in black hisptery. And whom better to break it all down for us than Reggie Watts? Or as Watts tells us, “Gilda …
Rachel Dratch recalls watching the first season of Saturday Night Live as a nine-year-old growing up in Massachusetts. “I was sleeping over at a friend’s house. She had an older brother who was watching it. I was immediately clicked into this, ‘What is this?!’ I was just fascinated by it. …
Darryl Lenox performed on Thursday night’s episode of Conan. Lenox joked about his formerly poor eyesight — can you make a joke that goes from Cookie Monster to Halle Berry to German porn in three easy steps? — the dangers in undergoing surgery to fix his eyes, and what happens …
When the surviving members of Monty Python reunited to celebrate their 40th anniversary with a documentary that aired on IFC in 2009, that was a Monty Python reunion. When they lent their voices to a documentary about the late Graham Chapman last year, that was a Python reunion of sorts, though …
Can you tell a pedophilia joke on network television? Kurt Metzger did. On his second appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Metzger not only stunned the studio audience on Wednesday night’s program with a bit about how one Toddlers and Tiara mom unwittingly turned off would-be pedophiles, but also …
February must not only be Sweeps Month but also Cop Show Month at the show business factories where they manufacture new comedy videos, because I’ve already received two such entries already in the past week. First up, “Perp Justice.” AKA Cop Show Drug Test, on Funny or Die. In this …
Yesterday, one of the Academy Awards visited Katz’s Delicatessen in New York City and asked patrons to fake an orgasm like Meg Ryan did in that scene from When Harry Met Sally. This afternoon, Oscar is jogging up the Philadelphia Museum of Art steps a la Rocky. Tomorrow, who knows? …
Did you know that Casey Wilson from ABC’s Happy Endings was a Girl Scout during high school? Fun facts! Wilson didn’t model Girl Scout behavior, however, when she posed as a reporter to dupe an actor from the touring company of the hit musical Rent into dinner and an interview …
