The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Will Ferrell has put out two new beer commercials, but only one of them is real, and that one only played during the Super Bowl in the second-smallest TV market in America. Go figure. The real commercial for Old Milwaukee played on Super Bowl Sunday in one market only, North …
Pete Holmes debuted as the talking E*Trade baby in a Super Bowl ad a couple of years ago, and his spokesbaby campaign is still going strong, and during Super Bowl XLVI, he returned with comedian Nick Cobb standing by the baby in a hospital maternity ward. Cobb appeared in his …
Your eyes are not deceiving you. That’s stand-up comedian Dan St. Germain welcoming Howard Stern to NBC’s America’s Got Talent in this promo spot which debuted during the second quarter of Super Bowl XLVI. Roll the clip!
Saturday Night Live returned from a mid-winter break minus one writer (interesting?!) and also without featured player Paul Brittain (what now?), who left the cast to pursue other opportunities. Someone please make sure the editing booth knew to adjust the opening credits, and someone else hold Don Pardo’s hand to …
Must be the end of Eddie Brill’s tenure as booker for The Late Show, because Jake Johannsen showed up again only a few months after his previous Letterman gig. In this clip, you’ll see/hear him talk about the idea of making a baby, as well as the new game of Password, …
Friendly sports championship wagers aren’t just for mayors anymore. New York City’s The PIT (Peoples Improv Theater) has put a challenge to Boston’s Improv Asylum that hinges upon Sunday’s Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots. The losing team’s representative comedy venue must travel …
Mark Forward is from Canada, but please, don’t hold that against him. In his first appearance on American TV, Forward performed on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Ferguson is from Scotland. Wonder if they bonded over talk about the Queen? In the meantime, Forward jokes about the lack of …
Some Web videos go viral for being awful and then turn those mediocre people into rich and famous celebrities. Way to go all Opposite Day, Internet haters! Thankfully, the success of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a wonderful thing created by truly talented and funny people, and has …
So Roseanne Barr went onto her social networks on Thursday night to announce she had filed papers with the FEC to run for the Green Party nomination for president of the United States in the 2012 election. But has she, really? I’m not doubting her on filing the official paperwork, …
Paul Brittain up and left Saturday Night Live in the middle of his second season. Why? Entertainment Weekly quoted a source close to Brittain that claimed he “had the opportunity to pursue other projects, and he and the show parted ways amicably.” Well, OK. Brittain put one of his pre-SNL …
