The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Seeing that Jake Johannsen was returning to New York City this weekend to perform at Gotham Comedy Club, and seeing that his most recent special from last year, I Love You, was playing on Showtime, I decided to catch it on the repeat overnight. Johannsen's bit about taxes, of course, …
In the mid-1990s, Sam Seder starred, directed and co-wrote the mocumentary Who's The Caboose?, which had a group of New York film students follow comedian/actors Max (Seder) and Susan (Sarah Silverman) out to Los Angeles, where they both get caught up in the madness that is Hollywood's TV pilot season. The …
For a third straight year, Just For Laughs has partnered with TBS to venture into Chicago in June for a multi-day comedy festival featuring top-name comedy talent. While we wait to see which locals make the cut, here's the initial slate of headliners. George Lopez and Russell Peters make return …
This is an actual joke contest hosted by Bobby Bottleservice (aka Nick Kroll) on behalf of Malaria No More. Roll the clip! Details? Enter the Bobby Bottleservice Joke Contest for the chance to win a trip for two to Los Angeles to see Hollywood Bites Back! at Nokia Theatre …
You may have seen spoilers and whatnot about the upcoming movie sequel, The Hangover: Part II. Well, here's the official poster, out today, showing how Bangkok and a monkey in a jean jacket seem to have gotten the best of them. Bradley Cooper is laid out on the floor. Ed …
If you caught a gander at the Sunday papers in New York City, then you noticed that both the Post and the Daily News have made their annual stabs at pretending to care about comedy. For the past few years, the Post has cast out its nets to round up …
The tragic events in Japan, and Gilbert Gottfried's jokes about them on Twitter, prompted Aflac to fire him as the insurance company's talking spokesduck. Fair? Unfair? Well, Gottfried has apologized publicly about his jokes, but now he's responded as a comedian with this Funny or Die video, in which he …
Wasn't anywhere near a TV when Saturday Night Live brought Zach Galifianakis back to host for his second time on the March 12, 2011, episode, so I'm just catching up with it now in full. Well, then, let's get started! The cold open is not overtly political, playing off …
Kids of all ages! Pee-wee Herman was great and still is great, all of these years later. If you haven't seen the revival of The Pee-wee Herman Show on Broadway live in person (or on HBO this month), you really should. I was lucky enough to see the HBO taping …
When you're watching Natasha Leggero's half-hour Comedy Central Presents tonight (or later), and thinking what a classy stand-up comedian she is, just remember that this is how she and her comedy boyfriend Duncan Trussell get romantic. Definitely not safe for work. Roll it.