The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If the thought of owing the IRS more than $11 milion in unpaid back taxes wasn’t enough, Chris Tucker also finds himself facing foreclosure as SunTrust Bank filed papers against the comedian/actor earlier this week, the AP reported today. According to documents obtained by the AP, Tucker bought a 10,000-square-foot lakefront home …
Lookie here, comedy fans. Maria Bamford went to Powell’s Books for her birthday, and decided to share her haul with you in her very own “haul” video. Because that’s a thing now. Roll it and find out what she’s won! Books!
The Muppets are returning to the big-screen this Thanksgiving. Only problem is, it’s been a generation since the Muppets were this big. Rashida Jones’ character hits the fuzzballs with the bad news. But do you think that’s going to stop Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang? Heck no. When Walter, the …
You’ve known and loved Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe from 24, but on My Damn Channel, she lets her comedic sense fly freaky as Dicki, a new webseries that stars Rajskub as a a 40-year-old who lives with her parents. In today’s premiere, Dicki realizes she needs to up her game …
Dear friend of the site Gary Gulman appeared on Conan last night, and in addition to his fond remembrance of the Sony Discman, Gulman also talked about how Things Remembered must be getting killed during the recession, and how the @ symbol has suddenly become more powerful than his idealized …
What more do you need to know? Steven Wright paid another visit to the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and it was delightful. Roll the clip. Steven Wright is in the middle of a stand-up tour. Check him out in a live venue near you.
Nice spot-on parody video here from Alison Bennett, as she, Violet Krumbein and Sasheer Zamata tell the kids to just be themselves, except for the fact that the singers they’re portraying — Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj, respectively — are anything but that to be successful. This video …
If you haven’t yet heard, The Onion‘s corporate executives want to move the editorial staff from New York City to Chicago — where the executives already are based alongside the satirical paper’s nonfiction entertainment section, The A.V. Club. It’s a cost-cutting measure, to be sure. The Onion‘s editorial staff has …
In the world of ABC’s Happy Endings, Casey Wilson’s Penny Hartz and her mom, played by Megan Mullally, used to have a duo singing cabaret act called Two Hartz Beat As One. We’ll get to see a little bit about that on tonight’s episode. Specifically, here’s a teaser of the duo’s …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
