The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Shaquille O'Neal may have finished out his All-Star NBA career by retiring following this season with the Boston Celtics, but the comedy doesn't stop with his Twitter feed and antics on shows such as Shaq Vs. or Jimmy Kimmel Live. After producing Shaq's All-Star Comedy Jams over the past three NBA All-Star …
Sacha Baron Cohen's new movie, The Dictator (working production title, aka Finchley Dreams) filmed during daylight hours in New York City, so paparazzi shots captured SBC in much more of his "glory" than I could the other night in my neighborhood. Never you mind why he's in such a hurry. Important plot …
Congratulations go out to Boston's sketch/improv troupe Improv Asylum, who formally announced this week that they'd earned a weekly half-hour time-slot on the Boston ABC affiliate, WCVB-TV (Ch. 5). Improv Asylum's Vanity Project will debut Saturday nights at midnight starting July 2. The troupe also has a deal with boston.com, …
Anthony Jeselnik felt like the Mayor of Applause Break City during this performance on Conan. Good to see his ego hasn't slipped a bit since he left his writing gig at Fallon. Roll the clip!
Ferris Bueller's Day Off hit cinemas 25 years ago this week, and if you were a teen-ager back then, then you loved the movie and wanted to be Ferris for a day yourself. Of course, it also means now you're old and shouldn't even be on the Internet. Get back …
Forget everything you thought you knew about the new Comedy Central series, Jon Benjamin Has A Van. Oh, wait. You didn't know much of anything? Well, good. Because the series that Benjamin and Leo Allen have co-created – with Funny or Die, Andrew Steele and Abso Lutely's Dave Kneebone also executive producing — …
In case you still were wondering, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time will return for a second season on Comedy Central. Production is ongoing already. Shooting for a fall 2011 broadcast, but no times and dates have been announced officially. On the show's Facebook page, Swardson and company recently wrote that they'll include …
Sunday morning, I know, is a time for you kids to sleep in, or if you're even awake in those hours, you're brunching as if your lives depended upon it. Well, you do need food to survive. So there is that. But still. If you watch CBS Sunday Morning, then …
Team Coco provides full coverage of Coco, and showed it over the weekend by uploading Conan O'Brien's commencement address to the Dartmouth College class of 2011. Jokes ensue. Roll it.
Julian McCullough made his network TV debut last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and if you're curious as to why Stephen Colbert was Tweeting about it earlier, then perhaps it might behoove you to attend a taping of The Colbert Report and watch McCullough perform beforehand to warm-up …