The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you missed it, sometime before the holiday weekend, NBC decided to recast three of its supporting roles on the 2012 midseason sitcom, Are You There Vodka? It's Me Chelsea, based on one of Chelsea Handler's best-selling books. One of the people losing out was stand-up comedian Jo Koy, …
You may know Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon from Reno 911! or their earlier collaboration with The State, but did you know that they also have co-written screenplays that have earned more than a billion dollars in global box-office receipts? They not only want you to know this, but …
With the Fourth of July kicking off the week, most late-night TV hosts in America decided to take the full week off. But not Jay Leno. Of course not. Self-described workaholic Leno is all-new this week with The Tonight Show, which meant he got to have yesterday's big Casey Anthony …
If you appear on America's Got Talent and make it to Vegas Week, but they never identify you by name, then does it still count as a credit? While I wait for Nick Cannon to get back to me on that one on behalf of the three "comedians" who didn't …
In case anyone actually was born yesterday and also fell off a turnip truck, Comedy Central will be getting the ol' gang of comedians and celebrities together in September for the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen. It'll tape in Los Angeles on Sept. 10, 2011, then air on the …
Adrian Garratt, who performs violin comedically under the name Sid Bowfin, has responded to Jim Tavare's copycat claims with a lengthy and spirited defense, published in full on Chortle.
This is why we cannot have Twitter interviews. Although Ben Schwartz sure made it funny when he tried to interview Garry Shandling over Twitter overnight as part of the annual CollegeHumor all-nighter. Enjoy!
Ryan Dunn, aka the most likeable and seemingly regular member of the Jackass crew that enjoyed a hit MTV series and movie franchise, died on June 20, 2011, after speeding his car off of a Pennsylvania road after a night out drinking. Dunn was 34. His friends at Dickhouse put …
The world’s not ending. It just seems that way to more than a few people, including Christopher Titus, who suggests we lead our way back through a Neverlution. That’s the title of his newest double-disc two-hour CD on Comedy Central Records, which is cut down to 42 minutes for the …
If you take one of your writing assistant's ideas and turn it into your own, you just might be a gold-digger. No? That's not a Jeff Foxworthy line, nor even my line, but the line Jared Edwards is using (so to speak) in his federal case against three of the …