The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Look. I know this isn’t the actual table. But still. The Onion’s editorial staff is facing a move this spring to Chicago to meet up with HQ (and The AV Club and advertising/sales staff to cut costs), so they’ve begun putting their New York City office supplies up for bid …
Three still makes a trend in modern journalism trendspotting, right? Regardless, Aziz Ansari has just become the third stand-up comedian who appears on TV and tours in theaters — his “Buried Alive” tour begins in April — to decide to release his latest stand-up special directly to fans via his …
Back in the day, stand-up comedians repeated their sets on multiple TV appearances. Because. Well. We didn’t have the Internet to save these performances for posterity (or as long as these individual Web-hosted video sites and channels exist). It’s rarer now. If you missed Dana Gould two months ago on …
Stevie Ryan has a compelling screen presence and an ability to impersonate many of today’s pop stars and celebutards that populate the basic cable landscape, so her transition to TV with Stevie TV on Vh1 makes sense. Three episodes into its first season, it’s also apparent that Ryan and co-creators …
The first season of Key & Peele has been such a delight that it’s not surprising that Comedy Central quickly renewed the sketch comedy series for a second season. Actually, perhaps that is surprising, considering Comedy Central’s recent track record on sketch. Check out this sketch from last week’s episode. …
What’s a one-sided freestyle rap battle look like? It looks something like this. King Supernuts (Victor Varnado) and Shockwave (Chris Sullivan) took to the streets of New York City and took on anyone and everyone whose paths they crossed. No contest! Varnado and Sullivan do host an actual freestyle comedy …
If the Republican presidential field, the inaction of Congress and the European debt crisis makes you suspect that Lewis Black might go off on a bit of a rant, well, your suspicions would be well-founded but misplaced. Because that’s not what has Black’s attention in In God We Rust, the …
This NBC “Rock Center” profile of the Upright Citizens Brigade is great and all, but something about it, seems, well, a bit dated. Perhaps it’s because the main interviews happened several months ago when the UCBeast launch happened. Yep. That’s it. Still nice, though. Hi, Amy Poehler and Matt Walsh!
Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr., known to audiences as the watermelon-smashing comedian Gallagher, suffered another heart attack on Wednesday and was placed in a medically-induced coma. Gallagher’s manager told the Huffington Post that he was placed in the coma Thursday — following his heart attack on Wednesday night in Texas — …
Will Ferrell is making the promotional rounds for his new movie, Casa de mi Padre, which arrives in a cinema near you on Friday, March 16, 2012. It co-stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. And it’s all in Spanish. Que? Si. Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel did …
