The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Allie Goertz was one of six winners announced last week in Arrested Development‘s contest giving fans a chance to appear on the upcoming Netflix season in walk-on roles for their fan art contributions. I’ll post her music video for “Maeby One Day” in a moment, but first, sit back and …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… FX has renewed Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell for a new, full 13-episode “second” season in 2013, as well as 13 episodes of an extended hour-long version of BrandX with Russell Brand. Both series are in their second of two short inaugural …
“Meet Skinja. She’s a stripper by night, ninja by later that night.” That’s a joke. Well, it started out as a joke in a longer bit of stand-up comedian Dan Goodman’s in which he imagines other movies. Only Skinja might actually become a real feature film. “After enough people came up …
Congratulations to Michael Malone, who edged out four other finalists and a couple of dozen other stand-up comedians to emerge victorious last night as winner of the 33rd annual Seattle International Comedy Competition. The final standings: Michael Malone (Los Angeles) Joe Klocek (San Francisco) Tyrone Hawkins (Tacoma) Landry (Atlanta/Toronto) Elliot …
Chevy Chase may think he’s too good for network TV sitcom work, but he won’t turn down a paycheck when it comes to reprising an old movie character in a Christmas TV ad campaign. He began reappearing as Clark Griswold on your television screens last night in the 2012 holiday …
Thrash Lab has released a new 11-minute documentary on improvisation in comedy — specifically set in the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood, and speaking with Matt Walsh, Jason Mantzoukas, Paul Scheer, Ellie Kemper, Kay Cannon and others about “The Harold” form of improv. It’s a good, quick overview of …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Chevy Chase left the NBC sitcom Community on Wednesday during production of its fourth season — which the network already had postponed until 2013. The Mindy Project is reshuffling its deck as far as cast members, too, midway through its rookie season on …
On his new CD, “Hear This!” you have to wait until the encore to hear about potential new greeting cards that keep it real in the world of Dan Cummins. Online, you don’t have to wait that long. Just click this clip of Cummins from Wednesday night’s Tonight Show with …
Larry David’s cartoon tales of Thanksgivings gone by in Brooklyn surfaced on Funny or Die a year ago, but even old videos become new once more if they’re tied to an annual event. So curb your enthusiasm at the door. Don’t try to wonder why Larry David remains so old …
For Conan O’Brien’s second installment of his Web-only uninterrupted talk show, “Serious Jibber-Jabber,” the front man for Team Coco on TBS welcomes writer/director/producer Judd Apatow to the table. Over the course of 69 minutes and change, we learn from Apatow that: Upon learning that one of Apatow’s first spec scripts …
