The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Al Madrigal stopped by Conan last night and described his day with a day laborer. No. Not his day as a day laborer. With one. Why did you read it the wrong way? Why did I type it the right way and then go off on this tangent? Stop looking …
Remember when country superstar Garth Brooks tried to create a pop-star alter-ego for himself? He even managed to get his alter-ego a gig on Saturday Night Live. Oh, memories. Well, now comes Wilder Valderrama, best known previously for playing Fez on That 70s Show but now known best for playing …
Did you know that comedian Grace Helbig is a correspondent now for G4's Attack of the Show? Did you know that she interviewed the guys from The Lonely Island (aka Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone from Saturday Night Live) about their new CD this week? Roll it! OK. …
The Daytime Entertainment Emmys don't usually have much to honor comedy, outside of the comedians who host talk shows or game shows. But Comedy Central went big this past year with the live Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on Washington, D.C., and they could go home with four Emmys …
Remember how Mike Epps allegedly got into a fight with a photographer in a Detroit nightclub back in November, and then the photog filed a $1 million lawsuit against the comedian? Well, Epps must have been avoiding the lawsuit, because a process server had to walk up to the stage …
The Star-Tribune in Minneapolis followed along a group of Major League Soccer sales trainees to improv comedy classes and filed a report on it yesterday. Can you guess which one of these performers is the salesperson and which one is the comedian? Warning: This video is a literal "Yes, And" …
One of the greatest comedy films of my life arrived in the summer of 1985. I'm speaking, of course, about Real Genius. What. You thought I was going to say 1985's box-office champ, Back to the Future? The Goonies? Fletch? Pee-wee's Big Adventure? Weird Science? Spies Like Us? Police Academy …
If you've seen the recent Sprint mobile phone ads voiced by the spirit wolf of Andy Samberg, then you're aware of this Double Dream Feet guy. What are the odds that somebody was a big enough fan of comedian Mike Birbiglia to remix him with Double Dream Feet and Crookers? …
In a live interactive press conference just now, Montreal's Just For Laughs comedy festival announced a string of headliners and other comedians who'll be performing this July. This year's fest is even longer than usual, with English language shows stretching all the way from July 11-31. The Galas, moving to …
Rooftop Comedy and the Lucy Ball-Desi Arnez Center have announced that in conjunction with what would have been Lucy's 100th birthday, they're launching the inaugural Lucille Ball Festival of Comedy from Aug. 3-7, 2011, in Jamestown, NY. Already scheduled are Joan Rivers on Aug. 4 and Whitney Cummings on Aug. …