The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s one thing for a red carpet interviewer to ask Bret McKenzie about a nonexistent Flight of the Conchords movie, as happened last month. It’s another thing to have McKenzie’s “flippant comment” confirmed today by Rhys Darby, who said he himself had sparked rumors of a film four years ago …
Both of New York City’s major outlets for sketch and improv comedy announced new house teams for the 2012 calendar year. Nate Dern, the Upright Citizen Brigade Theater’s New York artistic director, said he received more than 400 audition submissions from actors and 160 writing packets for the UCB’s weekly …
Recorded in early 2010 and released in early 2011, Lee Camp’s CD, “Chaos For The Weary,” is best listened to now in the wake of the Occupy movements on Wall Street and across the country. Even in his opening track, he manages to get a dig in on Santa Claus, …
Ho ho ho and a bong for the holidays? Riki “Garfunkel” Lindhome and Kate “Oates” Micucci sing about getting high on Christmas. Naturally, Doug Benson is in the picture, too, freaking himself out in a Santa outfit. Needless to say, “Scary F**ked Up Christmas” is not a safe for work …
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have seen those Lexus ads for its “December to Remember” campaign, except they might have missed the point. See how in this new ad for their own upcoming Comedy Central series, Key & Peele. Roll the clip!
It’s December 2011, and just like Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live had predicted many years ago, Fallon is back as the host. Fallon has returned a couple of times previously in cameos to join Justin Timberlake in the Barry Gibb Talk Show sketches, but this is different. For one …
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson has the unusual habit of recording its stand-up comedian performances and holding them, sometimes for months, before airing them. Ferguson’s free-wheeling nature makes it more difficult to predict how much free time will be left after he finishes his celebrity interviews, so this allows …
Stephen Merchant, whom you may well know as the co-creator with Ricky Gervais of both The Office and Extras, (as well as The Ricky Gervais Show and podcast, An Idiot Abroad and Life’s Too Short) is wrapping up his first major stand-up comedy tour with his first dates in the …
Bill Hicks died much too young at 32 in 1993. Today would have been his 50th birthday, and it’s easy to imagine him having much to say about both popular culture as well as the political climate of Occupy Wall Street and the GOP presidential field. Swap out Debbie Gibson …
You never quite know what you’re going to find in a Rory Scovel performance, and he succeeds in bewildering the audiences at the San Francisco Punch Line where he recorded his new stand-up comedy CD, “Dilation,” earlier this year. Not that bewilderment is a bad thing to produce. Scovel likes …
