The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here's something you don't see all that often. It's comedian Albert Brooks on a talk show in 2011! Then again, Brooks recently did join Twitter, too, to promote his new book. So perhaps it's not as much of a surprise. Still enjoyable, though. Even if he sold most of his …
If you're in NYC tonight, then please consider spending your time and money at Carolines, where Dave Attell, Jim Breuer, Judah Friedlander, John Oliver and host Greg Fitzsimmons will perform for "Ian O‚ÄôMalley and Friends," a night of comedy to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The night includes a raffle …
Today's the deadline to submit for The Friars Club Improv + Sketch Competition. So if you want to win a cash prize and the chance to make a short film for the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival this fall, you best get your game faces on. Last year's winners were …
Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney clued us in today that a sketch he'd written with Simon Rich and Marika Sawyer got "cut for time" last weekend with host Tina Fey. But I recall being in the audience for the dress rehearsal of last season's SNL that Tina Fey hosted …
Kid Rock has agreed to let Comedy Central assemble a roster of comedians and fame-seekers to make fun of him this summer as the next "victim" of a roast. Wait. Didn't the most recent roast of Donald Trump happen just a few months ago? Yes. Yes, it did. Nevertheless, we're …
A full recap on Saturday Night Live is to come, but for now, for Mother's Day, it's important to take a look at last night's most popular sketch — at least the sketch most applauded by the live studio audience — as Bill Hader's Stefon character re-emerged during Weekend Update …
Andrea Rosen's current show at the UCB Theatre, "Ding Dong Meow," really should be called "Ding Dong Meow (Cookie!)" It's neither one-woman show nor performance art piece, but rather a showcase for Rosen's variety of talents as a comedian. Want to hear her stand-up comedy about true and often embarrassing …
If you thought listening to Jerry Seinfeld talk funny for an hour on HBO with Chris Rock, Louis CK and Ricky Gervais was something; if you thought seeing Seinfeld debut his own website today was something; well, this is something else entirely — a revealing look into Seinfeld's career and …
Christopher Titus has a special message for you about the needs of children. Roll it. Yes, the video may be a joke, but Titus is serious about helping kids. He founded a nonprofit volunteer organization called In-sight Youth Project, and on Saturday, May 7, Titus has gotten Dana Carvey …
Ian Edwards performed on last night's episode of Conan, and in addition to teaching the fellas how the ladies have "flipped the game" on them, he also lets us in on his Jamaican heritage and the ambition of one of his ancestors. Roll the clip!