The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What a week for Nina Conti. Conti, a British comedian, actress and ventriloquist, found success for herself on multiple fronts here in American TV land during the past week. First, Conti appeared on Ellen, and had Ellen DeGeneres in stitches as she made an audience member say whatever she wanted, …
How often do you see a series that’s still in the development phase release an official network video? Well, that depends. How often have you seen an uber-topical animated sketch revolving around the final presidential debate, which just happened last night, for a series that may or may not ever …
Want to be one of only 1,000 people to own a David Cross “Throbblehead” figure? Well, you just may be in luck! Aggronautix has partnered with Fun Fun Fun Fest, the annual music and comedy festival held in Austin (Nov. 2-4 in 2012), on two new “Throbblehead” 7-inch-tall figures — …
Spend any time in the black-box theaters and back-room bars of New York City’s comedy scene, and you’ll undoubtedly see Mindy Tucker and her camera, documenting the action from just offstage. Spend any time with Tucker, and you’ll soon find yourself changing the social-media profile pictures you use to ones …
Mark Malkoff still hopes to have Bill Murray over for dinner at Malkoff’s apartment in Queens. All is not lost as his My Damn Channel series, “The Bill Murray Show,” hits episode #9 this week. In fact — not only did Malkoff see an advance screening of Murray’s new movie, …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… FOX ordered up additional episodes of New Girl and Raising Hope. Those two sitcoms, plus The Mindy Project, now will have 24-episode seasons for 2012-2013. President Barack Obama will visit The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Wednesday (Oct. 24). It’ll be Obama’s …
Chris Matthews of MSNBC appeared onstage in a bit for Comedy Central’s 2012 edition of “Night of Too Many Stars” to raise money for programs helping children with autism. Matthews “debated” Bill O’Reilly from FOX News as both men sucked on helium balloons. Before the event’s taping, I asked Matthews …
We here may be called The Comic’s Comic. But what does that title even mean? And who embodies it? The given standard holds that a “comic’s comic” literally is a comedian beloved by fellow comedians; often also by critics; and sometimes in this current generation, by the so-called “comedy nerds” …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Did you know that if you rearranged the letters in Mitt Romney’s last name, you’d find out his secret hip-hop identity was R-Money?! Fun fact. Or just a happy coincidence that the kids at FOX’s new ADHD unit latched onto to craft this NSFW animated music video, “Where You Hide …
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