The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Usually, a press release or announcement late on a Friday is meant to sneak something sinister past the press and your attention. This is the opposite of that. YouTube announced last night that it’ll launch several brand-new channels full of original entertainment — as the company said: “These channels will …
The Gillette Odor Shield Sweat for Greatness contest celebrates ordinary men achieving extraordinary things. And the three finalists in this year’s contest have truly remarkable stories of greatness, as you’ll discover in the profiles that follow. Whose story is most extraordinary? Cast your vote online at si.com/greatness. Steve Wampler, from …
TJ Miller has some more characters to share with you. But first, Miller’s second performance on Conan included a clever nod to an earlier backstage incident during the show, and the recounting of an airplane trip he endured sitting in the middle seat between a father and daughter who made …
Kathleen Madigan was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno this week. Not the same episode as President Barack Obama. But close. Very close. So close that Madigan still felt comfortable expressing her opinion on Obama’s job performance, as well as the Republican challengers. Madigan also makes a compelling case …
In a just world, the Comedy Gods weed out the no-talent hacks and leave the true voices to prosper. Alas, alack, we do not always live in a just world. And so it is that the Comedy Gods are wreaking havoc on another of our true voices: Patrice O’Neal. Many …
Remember when Ricky Gervais hosted the Golden Globes and made all those silly jokes about all of these silly celebrities and their horrible movies and personal scandals and then this little piggy went “Wee! Wee! Wee!” all the way home? Oh. You do still remember that? Is it because Gervais …
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is enjoying more exposure than ever this week, so it was curious to see one of his campaign workers put out a new TV commercial that shows him casually smoking a cigarette and being just plain weird. Not as weird? Seeing Tim Heidecker make his …
Puss in Boots is an animated movie spinoff from the Shrek franchise, and somehow, it managed to find a voice role for Zach Galifianakis, which means he made the late-night TV rounds (Hollywood edition) to help promote the film. First he showed up at Jimmy Kimmel Live. Wherein he discusses …
Eddie Murphy makes a rare late-night TV appearance tonight on Late Show with David Letterman. Sure, Murphy is promoting a new movie, Tower Heist. But you know what else Murphy is up to? Hosting the Academy Awards in a few months! You know who else has hosted the Oscars? Letterman! …
“I didn’t want to let Lorne down.” That’s Darrell Hammond, the longest-tenured member ever on Saturday Night Live, telling CNN in a new interview about how he answered the call of SNL’s Lorne Michaels to perform his celebrity and political impersonations on live TV, even when, in at least one …
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