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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 …
Matt Walsh is finishing up work on his first feature film as a director, the highly improvised movie, High Road. So naturally, The Comic's Comic spoke to the UCB comedian about it on 4/20. Or was it just coincidental timing? "It is interesting numerology," Walsh told me. "We're still finishing the …
It's 4:20 somewhere, but it's 4/20 everywhere today since it's April 20. Pot jokes. Marijuana. Weed. Stoners. Comedians know a lot about that. And they'll be joking about it today, obviously. At 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific (and other applicable time zones), Comedy Central's Jokes.com and Atom.com have joined forces …
"Well, there's no question that a lot of the, whatever gifts that I have, came through this strain of DNA. It can't just be a coincidence that I know how to do this; I didn't learn all this, you know what I mean? How to be a comedian, and how …
Gilbert Gottfried's career has not stalled in the wake of his AFLAC/Japan kerfuffle. In fact, Gottfried has a new book coming out later this month, "Rubber Balls and Liquor," which is part memoir, part excuse to publish more dirty and offensive jokes. Like this one. This one is titled "Joke …