The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Doug Stanhope is seemingly afraid of nothing. Certainly not death. Most definitely not offending anyone’s sensibilities. Showtime premieres the video version tonight of his most recently recorded hour, “Before Turning the Gun On Himself” (Roadrunner Records), with rebroadcasts throughout August 2012 on Showtime’s various pay-movie channels. Even when he starts off …
Jay Chandrasekhar is quick to point out that the latest film that he has directed and co-stars with Kevin Heffernan in, The Babymakers, is NOT a Broken Lizard movie. Those films, both he and Heffernan said, rely on plots that revolve around teams or squads that can include all five …
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 …
Do you need a little more Tenacious D in your life today? Have no fear. Jack Black and Kyle Gass are here. On your TVs, and now on your online videos, captured in separate performances on TBS for Conan (where they performed “Senorita”), and on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! for …
Three years after VH1 cancelled Best Week Ever, the cable channel is reviving the weekly pop-culture headline jokey joke series in January 2013. VH1’s executive vice president for original programming and production, Jeff Olde, made the announcement today. “Fridays are when we exhale at the end of another hard week …
About two years ago, riders of the New York City subway system noticed a different type of vandalism on the large posters advertising upcoming movies, TV shows or other products. Instead of having eyes cut out, or vulgar graffiti, someone had begun inking mustaches on the faces depicted on these …
Louis CK might not be apologetic about what he says onstage during his stand-up routines, but on his critically-acclaimed FX series, Louie, he’s always so, so sorry. All the time. Seemingly. My partners in online comedy over at Slacktory provide the evidence of Louie’s apologetic nature in this mash-up video …
Eddie Izzard began his comedy career there as a rogue street performer. Demetri Martin made a name for himself there before becoming big in America. And even today, popular up-and-coming stand-up Hannibal Buress is going back there for a second consecutive summer to develop his next hour of material. There …
With more than 27 years of stand-up comedy touring under his belt — and gigs as host of Family Feud, a morning radio program, plus a daytime syndicated talk-show starting up after Labor Day — Steve Harvey is calling it quits, at least as far as the stand-up portion of …
Hecklers are nothing compared to the threats comedians face in other parts of the world — the latest example of such occurring earlier this week in Somalia, where comedian and radio presenter Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale was shot dead. Marshale (pictured above left) often impersonated Islamist fighters and had recently retreated …
