The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, now in its fourth year, is unlike any other comedy festival. Intended to be a joke on the notion of comedy fests, it has nevertheless become a Brooklyn institution now, and as Mirman and his co-conspirators Julie Smith and Caroline Creaghead note, it has managed …
The final Harry Potter movie opened across America at midnight, and with it, the final chance for comedians and comedy troupes to toast, roast and boast about their parody videos. Let’s take a look at a few making the rounds this week. First up is The Second City Network’s popular …
Tim Harmston made his debut last night on Late Show with David Letterman. Roll the clip!
Buzzine got behind the scenes during taping of season two of The Green Room with Paul Provenza, which just aired its premiere episode tonight on Showtime with Judd Apatow, Garry Shandling, Marc Maron, Ray Romano and Bo Burnham. Don’t worry. If you missed it in the Eastern and Central time …
IFC has filmed a new round of interstitial bits with Scott Aukerman for IFC’s Comedy Death-Ray, and in this little bit, Aukerman asks his friend and colleague in comedy — Zach Galifianakis — about his experiences in high school. Because they’re supposedly in an ad break during an episode of …
Paul Rudd graced the cover of GQ’s August 2010 magazine for its annual Comedy Issue. Remember that? Take a look in case you forgot. OK. Now look at the August 2011 cover of GQ. That’s Mila Kunis. Notice anything different? Well, not really different, considering GQ is a men’s magazine, …
On last night’s episode of America’s Got Talent, musical comedian J Chris Newberg did not get one of the four spots in the semifinals. Spoiler alert? Although if they’re doing four out of 12 in each of the quarterfinals, you’d suspect that there might be a special episode later in …
Looks like the one-night pairing of Nick DiPaolo and Artie Lange on FOX Sports Radio was enough of a success that the duo is looking to make it a full-time deal. TMZ.com caught up with Lange and DiPaolo yesterday and asked what’s up. TMZ says the duo is in talks …
The 2011 Emmy nominations came out this morning and revealed a few surprises, and yes, a couple of snubs. Same ol’ same ol’. Perhaps most surprising? That comedian Louis CK received the most individual Emmy nominations of anyone, with four: two for his FX show, Louie (acting, writing), and two …
John Ramsey has enjoyed success as a comedian in America, among his credits having reached the late, great HBO U.S. Comedy Arts festival in Aspen and performing on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham. But for the past year, Ramsey has served as a volunteer in Kenya. Not so funny, right? …