The Definitive Guide to Comedy
We haven’t heard much from Jack Black and Kyle Gass as the over-the-top musical duo Tenacious D since their first full-length feature film, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, failed to win over moviegoers or critics in 2006. But it’s 2012 now, and the boys have a good sense …
I’ve been a fan of Dave Waite’s onstage persona and joke tags since I first saw him several years ago as a Cincinnati stand-up comedian competing in the Boston Comedy Festival contest. Waite now lives in New York City. Last week, he destroyed at a showcase for Late Night with …
At last weekend’s taping of The Comedy Awards, award-winner Hannibal Buress stopped backstage (or technically, under the stage) in the press room to answer a few questions. Buress also took a minute to try to describe his upcoming role as the sidekick/co-host of The Eric Andre Show, which debuts on …
Whereas online video sites such as my colleagues at My Damn Channel, or lesser-known but well-funded operations such as Revision3 or Sony’s Crackle, have been pumping out original webseries for years now to compete with old-school TV, we’ve begun seeing new content come out of the heavy-hitter sites that had …
Where does Nick Offerman end and Ron Swanson begin? To be fair, Offerman isn’t the first comedian to portray a fictitious and yet slightly realistic version of himself on television. Just think back to the previous comedy boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when several stand-up comedians earned …
As if you need to be reminded, but Funny or Die is producing a special half-hour episode of its popular webseries, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, which will premiere on Sunday, May 6, immediately before the second annual Comedy Awards on Comedy Central. The special, Between Two Ferns: A …
Anyone can throw on a mask and pretend to be a Mexican wrestler for laughs. Just ask Jack Black, who employed this method to great effect in 2006 for Nacho Libre. Or go back in time to Seattle, before the Y2K virus wiped out life on Earth, and a time …
Nobody knows why this happened. Nobody knows how this happened. But this happened. Nasim Pedrad, Vanessa Bayer and Abby Elliott — who portray three of the Kardashian Klan on Saturday Night Live — somehow found themselves dressed in character posing for a photo with the Kardashian Klan. Something tells me …
Mario Joyner has toured with Jerry Seinfeld, played small indie rooms such as the UCB Theatre in New York City, hosted a stand-up comedy showcase on MTV before you were born, and performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The man is versatile! In this clip from Monday night, …
If you missed Meet the Press on Sunday morning, then don’t worry about it. Because you likely wouldn’t have seen this 15-minute conversation with Fred Armisen and Jason Sudeikis on your NBC-TV dial, anyhow. It’s the Internet, baby! David Gregory visited the Saturday Night Live to chat up Armisen and …
