The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 2011 TBS Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival has added some more names, and big names, too, as Martin Short will return to the festival this June, but with Steve Martin! Other additions include Seth Meyers, Ron White, Rodney Carrington and Jo Koy, while Hannibal Buress, Kumail Nanjiani, Kristen …
Demetri Martin has a new book out this week, titled simply, This is a Book. Of course Martin designed the cover himself. You can buy his book now via Amazon.com. Also, Funny or Die has excerpted a few pages of charts and graphs from the book.
Ricky Gervais is friends with Louis CK, who is friends with Chris Rock, who is friends with Jerry Seinfeld. Put these four friends together in a room and let them talk shop for 50 minutes about comedy. That's not a show about nothing. That's Talking Funny, which premieres tonight on …
Some people I tend to see at every major comedy festival. Jeff B. Cohen is one of those people. I met him several years ago in Aspen. He's a nice guy. For an entertainment lawyer, that is! We have fun conversations about comedy and I have many friends who are …
Joe DeVito returned to perform again last night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and now that he's single at 42, he finds himself examining what he has learned about women and dating. This clip also features a rare plug for Broadway Comedy Club in NYC. DeVito will be …
They're not exactly the Three Musketeers of comedy, but Bill Burr, Robert Kelly and Joe DeRosa did figure out the value of teamwork. By joining forces, they sat down, wrote, produced and directed a short film all on their own, and Cheat will debut this weekend at the 2011 Tribeca …
Here is the first official "red band" (adults only, or mature immature audiences, please) for 30 Minutes or Less, arriving in a cinema near you in August 2011. Starring Aziz Ansari, Jesse Eisenberg, Danny McBride and Nick Swardson. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Roll the clip!
The Hollywood Reporter makes Lorne Michaels its cover story this week, and since it's Easter, they also asked illustrator Edel Rodriguez to depict Lorne and the SNL gang as the Last Supper. Which makes Lorne essentially Jesus Christ SNL Superstar, right? From left to right: Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poehler, Bill …
“Fight For Your Right Revisited,” the new half-hour short film from the Beastie Boys, debuts at midnight tonight on Vh1, with an uncensored version airing at 3 a.m. on Comedy Central. But here’s the music video for “Make Some Noise,” which features more than five minutes from the short, with …
In this video interview with Social Times, CollegeHumor co-founder Ricky Van Veen explains how the site — and in essence, other online destinations — can earn money (aka monetize) from making funny videos. Van Veen talks about the evolving mood of the collective online audience, as we're now more willing …