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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 …
Sure, Dom Irrera showed up on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night so he could crack some jokes about ads for ice-cold beer and his relative who is an ignorant racist, but Irrera and Ferguson also had some time for panel chat, too. Ferguson asked Irrera, as a …
Argue all you want over whether Jon Stewart is a politician, but Stephen Colbert most definitely is. Or should I say, "Stephen Colbert," the character Colbert portrays on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report. This morning in Washington, D.C., the Federal Elections Commission officially voted to grant his request to form …
Love. Love. Love this. Jon Dore and Rory Scovel are two of my favorite stand-up comedians today who love to play with the rules of comedy and then chuck them out the proverbial window. One thing they do that few others do is perform together, yet separately, onstage. If you’ve …
It’s the Fourth of July Weekend (almost) and even closer to Canada Day (for you Canadians), and it’s Thursday in the U.K., so why not celebrate with a good ol’ fashioned new-media battle of the wits from across the pond? To celebrate its new “Ministry of Laughs” comedy block of …
“Weird Al” Yankovic has had much success in his decades as a satirical recording artist, but not quite like he has had this week. Yankovic’s most recent album, Alpocalypse, debuted at #9 on the Billboard charts (a rare feat for any comedic act) — and Conan O’Brien finally allowed him …
In case you missed it earlier this month, NBC’s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno is repeating Larry David’s first appearance on the program tonight. In this clip, Larry David reveals that Leno first asked him on the program way back in 1992, when the Seinfeld program he’d co-created was …