The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sean Patton has been accused of looking like others, but how about like an owl? That’s what he divulged last night on Conan, in addition to quitting smoking — and, by the way — nice shout out for The Creek and The Cave! Roll the clip.
Do you have a lucky shirt for stand-up, or particularly for TV appearances? Does Henry Cho? I ask because when he popped up on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson this week, it looked like he went with the same collared shirt he wore on Ferguson last year. Perhaps it’s …
Just no. A million times no. The Farrelly Brothers went ahead and remade The Three Stooges, and even though we all asked them not to, they did it anyway. And in the first movie trailer, we see that they even found ways to make it worse than we had imagined. …
Some comedians like to push the envelope. Tig Notaro likes to push the stool. No, really. Tig showed us what she means last night on Conan. Conan seems to have found its own personality in finding comedians it likes and featuring them multiple times. Count Notaro among those favorites. Roll …
Patton Oswalt is making the late-night TV rounds to promote his new movie, Young Adult, but when he hit Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Oswalt wanted to reveal something about his first professional acting gig as a recurring guest star on King of Queens. Namely, that the writers room was …
Following Louis CK’s debut of his stand-up concert film this year, Sundance is going even bigger, it seems, with comedy in 2012. Here is the full list of comedians and comedies you’ll see around Park City during January 2012. IN COMPETITION The Comedy / U.S.A. (Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, …
David Wain is back with new episodes of the fifth season of “Wainy Days,” in which he bags all of the hot chicks you’ve dreamed of. Only bagged doesn’t mean what you think it means. You know what I mean. Roll the clips! Future episodes will show up on Mondays, with …
Did you know Steve Buscemi was funny? If you’ve watched an Adam Sandler movie any time in the past decade or more, then probably. Or perhaps you just thought his portrayals of mobsters and old-timey gangsters in The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire were funny ha-ha in addition to funny weird. …
“Do you win anything here?” Cyndi Lauper asks during the second episode of Would You Rather…? with Graham Norton. That’s the main and maybe only thing holding up BBC America’s introduction of comedy panel “game shows” to the States. Filmed in New York City before live studio audiences, Would You Rather…? …
Last night whilst watching NBC’s Thursday-night comedy lineup, this holiday commercial for Target appeared and brought Chris Gethard into my home (and probably yours). Roll it! In related news, Gethard has a new memoir/autobiographical book of essays coming out in January 2012, titled A Bad Idea I’m About to Do: …
