The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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Kevin Hart has been taking his stand-up to the next level in the past year, embarking on a 90-city tour that brought in more than $15 million in ticket sales. The result is Laugh at My Pain, a concert movie/documentary that presents Hart's show and follows him to his Philadelphia …
Bill Murray has another song about him. How many comedians have multiple songs named for them, anyhow? I suppose I could look into that. But first, here's the most recent "Bill Murray" track to get recorded, and Terrible People have done it. Terrible People, of course, is a rock band …
Much ado about nothing? Perchance. But Jim Tavare learned a lesson this month about airing his grievances about another comedian online first before attempting a private solution, as he issued an apology on Twitter to Sid Bowfin (aka Adrian Garratt) on July 6, 2011. Tavare wrote: My suspicions of Adrian …
Kate McKinnon earned a nomination for the ECNY's Emerging Comic Award in 2010, but how she hasn't emerged already as a comedy star is beyond me. Yes, McKinnon got to showcase her chops in Logo TV's The Big Gay Sketch Show, but odds are, you weren't watching Logo nor even …
Heineken is getting upscale and arty with its advertising, as this latest short film demonstrates. I'd tell you that even if Heineken wasn't paying me, because it's so hot and sweaty outside, that just thinking I can be cool like this is almost as good as having a cold beer. …
Overnight, Punchline Magazine's founder Dylan P. Gadino revealed to his readers that next week, his site formally will disappear, and then reappear under the new moniker of LaughSpin. Gadino writes: "For close to a year now, we‚Äôve been revamping, redesigning and rebranding the site I launched, along with graphic designer …
Ali Wong made her late-night TV debut last night on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and she filled us in on the good parts of having an Asian boyfriend, and yet how bad he is at gift-giving. Want to know more about her? Read Ali Wong's Meet Me in …
MTV just announced that of its five shows/panels heading to San Diego later this month for the annual Comic-Con, one will include Jackass star Johnny Knoxville in an extended conversation with Mike Judge, the creator of Beavis and Butt-Head, which is returning to the airwaves for the first time since …
The Internet was abuzz today over a promo ad going on and on about Roseanne's Nuts, which is the name of Roseanne Barr's new reality series coming to Lifetime on July 13, 2011, following her new life as a nut farmer in Hawaii. Related: Read about the initial news of Roseanne's …