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New York City's Gotham Comedy Club will host two additional tributes to the late stand-up comedian Greg Giraldo a week from today on Monday, March 28, with proceeds going to the Greg Giraldo Children's Fund. Lineups: 7 p.m. hosted by Gabe Liedman with Morgan Murphy, Joe Mande and more; 9 …
Back in the late 1980s, people still used old-fashioned hard luggage to go on trips, and American Tourister showed how strong their suitcases were by having a gorilla pound on it in TV ads. As this Evening Magazine profile shows, Boston stand-up comedian Tony V was hired to be the …
The cast of FOX's new animated series, Bob's Burgers, took over guest blogging duties for Videogum on Friday. Even though Eugene Mirman was in Austin, Texas, for SXSW — far away from his fellow cast members — he still found a fun and unique-for-now way of contributing to the cause, …
This video: So many questions! And I don't mean the interviewer (from the NY Post) has a lot of questions, although one of his statements prompts a question: What does it mean to "put out a Twitter Tweet"? When did Andrew "Dice" Clay become a pirate? Why would Dice comment …
It's only been six months since the great stand-up comedian Greg Giraldo died from an accidental overdose. Giraldo's impact within the comedy community was so profound that Comedy Central had no trouble assembling an all-star group to talk about him for Give It Up For Greg Giraldo, which has two …
The Futon Critic is claiming an exclusive overnight that NBC would not be airing a season of Last Comic Standing in the summer of 2011, citing a network spokesperson. Except you didn't need anyone from NBC to tell you that. All you had to do was notice that they hadn't …
It's St. Patrick's Day, so obviously that makes some people think more about Boston than usual, because of its larger Irish and Irish-American population (full disclosure: The McCarthy side of my family settled in Lynn (sing it if you know it)). Funny or Die posted a special St. Patrick's Day-timed …
Before Fred Armisen was a star on Saturday Night Live and Portlandia, he was filming shorts for HBO as "Fred." Before that, he played drums in a Chicago band called Trenchmouth. And in between? Step back into your hot tub time machines to 1998, when Armisen visited Austin for the …
Every year, we see a new slew of March Madness comedy videos. Sketch comedy video guys The Guys From The Internet decided to take something that's not at all about sports, the "It Gets Better" video project telling lesbian, gay, bi, trans and other bullied teens that they can overcome the bullying …
Steve Martin appeared on Late Show with David Letterman last night, and while he had an enjoyable story to share about having Sir Paul McCartney sing on one of his new bluegrass songs, Letterman also wanted to know what Martin gets out of using Twitter. So Martin explained himself. If …