The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Black Keys wanted to enlist someone to help announce their upcoming album, “El Camino.” They couldn’t get lawyer Saul Goodman, because he’s a fictitious character from a a TV show. So they found the next best thing in actor Bob Odenkirk. Why he’s selling a minivan, though? Not sure …
Who decides who’s the best at using Twitter? Exactly. Nobody knows. Which means everybody can throw their proverbial hats into the three-ring social media circus and make their own proclamations. Which is what the latest edition of kids over at the National Lampoon chose to do with their first-ever Twitter …
As the Occupy Wall Street movement enters its fourth week and expands to activist protests in Los Angeles and elsewhere around America, it’s becoming more difficult to dismiss this as an unorganized, unmotivated lark. In 2008, the disenchanted masses turned their minds and hearts to Barack Obama, because he told …
Congratulations go out to Sean Kent, who has become the third stand-up comedian to win both the San Francisco and Seattle comedy competitions. Kent completed the double with his victory last night in Northern California. This year’s runners-up from the San Francisco contest, in alphabetical order: Sal Calanni, AJ Finney, …
That was fast. A couple of days after we learned how much cash FOX and News Corp. could bank by canceling The Simpsons, and just hours after voice actor Harry Shearer published his own statement willing to negotiate, the entire cast and the show agreed to a new two-year deal …
Several annual comedy festivals are now ready to see your video submissions for the coming year. Up next… JANUARY 2012: Magners Comedy Festival, Boston. Shows Jan. 25-28. Click on the link for instructions, and register by entering one of your clips from the Rooftop Comedy website before October 28, 2011. …
Proving that the UCB-LA branch has exploded into small circles of TV comedy everywhere, Bradford Evans has the evidence in this epic venn diagram for Splitsider. Apparently, when comedy nerd fans of Party Down, The League, Childrens Hospital, Parks and Recreation, Human Giant, the Upright Citizens Brigade, The State and Earwolf really think …
Here is you first look at The Heart, She Holler, a new live-action series starring Patton Oswalt, Kristen Schaal and Heather Lawless, plus Kurt Braunohler and more. And by more, you’ll see that Oswalt plays multiple roles, including a caveman-boy who emerges from, well, you’ll see, a guy with an awesome …
At this summer’s Just For Laughs Montreal comedy festival, David Wain put on a special live edition of “Wainy Days” that included a custom-made song for him written and performed by Garfunkel and Oates. They had so much fun then that they decided to re-record the song for Internet posterity. …
Harry Shearer, who has provided many voices for The Simpsons over its 23 seasons — including Charles Montgomery Burns, Ned Flanders, and Principal Skinner, among others — has released this statement regarding tense negotiations over pay cuts and the future of the series. It reads as follows: For many years …
