The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In his third appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, check out how Joe Wong keeps a slow and deliberate pacing to his delivery. It not only allows the audience to follow along with his Chinese accent, but also gives them chances to laugh at pauses that normally wouldn’t be …
In the second season finale of Showtime’s The Green Room with Paul Provenza, Provenza asked Jimmy Carr to explain his theory on why humans laugh, and how it applies to evolution and makes us more advanced than other creatures big and small. Here is how that transpired. Paul Provenza: “Jimmy …
On Sept. 9, 2011, HBO will broadcast a comedy special pairing Mel Brooks with Dick Cavett in conversation, but in this clip, we see that Carl Reiner is there, too, and they’ll be talking about the classic bit Reiner and Brooks used to do about a 2000-year-old man. Roll it. …
The New York Television Festival has unveiled its schedule for Sept. 20-24, 2011, and, aside from the traditional sneak peek premieres of several new fall TV series, the NYTVF also will include a late-night writers panel hosted by SNL’s Jason Sudeikis, as well as the world premiere of Marc Maron’s …
Ever since Katt Williams announced he was “retiring” from stand-up comedy, he still has managed to pop up in the headlines from time to time, but never for good news on his part. Arrests. Altercations. Strange incidents. Actually, Williams had been finding himself on the wrong side of the headline …
There’s a bit Hannibal Buress has about living in Williamsburg and talking to hipsters about handlebar mustaches, and that very much came to my mind as I watched this Heineken Light advertisement. Sadly, Hannibal isn’t in this TV spot. But they do answer the pivotal question about when and where …
Music fans excited to see the reunion of power-pop band That Dog last weekend in Los Angeles received a bonus treat at the Troubadour, as Maya Rudolph revealed she fronts a Prince cover band called Princess! Now we know that if Fred Armisen had ever faltered in his Saturday Night …
Over at Collectors Weekly, they’ve dug deep into the archives of fake vomit. Or rather, they talked to Stan and Mardi Timm, who collect novelty and gag items, and chronicle them online at Timm Stuff. The Timms told Collectors Weekly all about their knowledge of fake barf and vomit novelties, …
One way comedians can raise their profiles via social media is by taking on the rich and famous. Joe Mande has made it a habit to poke fun on Twitter at celebrities, politicians, athletes and people who are famous for being famous, exposing their hypocrisies. Today Mande took his mockery …
Despite winning a Peabody Award for its outstanding quality, the dramedy that was Men of a Certain Age couldn’t earn a third season on TNT — and after putting out feelers to other networks and receiving more than 10,000 fans to a Save Men of a Certain Age Facebook petition …
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