The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Earlier this year, Robin Williams received the Comedy Icon Award from the second annual reboot of The Comedy Awards. Afterward, Williams met the press assembled backstage (actually, beneath stage level) to answer all sorts of questions. What’s his favorite movie he has done? Blah, blah, blah. You should hear some …
The way that the comedy community has rallied around one of its own, even a still-aspiring stand-up, has been nothing short of amazing this past week in the wake of the shooting massacre in Aurora, Colo. Comedians and comedy fans already have helped raise more than $360,000 to help pay …
Eddie Murphy may have had a hit song back in the day with “Party All the Time” and even hosted the MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, too — but Murphy couldn’t accomplish what Community’s Donald Glover already has in his spare time away from comedy: Score his own VMA …
Eddie Pepitone has serious daddy issues in this new clip released from the forthcoming documentary about Pepitone, The Bitter Buddha. The film premiered at Just For Laughs Chicago last month, and also screened once last week during Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. In this clip, taken from audio of Pepitone’s …
