The Definitive Guide to Comedy
After today's devastating 8.9-magnitude earthquake in Japan provoked an even more horrifying tsunami in the Pacific Ocean, the reverberations are being felt on both sides of the Pacific and everywhere in between. Which is where ABC talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel comes in. He was off this week vacationing in French …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they're comedians? No, that's not it. It is a fact, though, that America's biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Gallagher has built a lengthy career in comedy by shocking his audience, first by smashing watermelons and just about anything else he can think up with his "Sledge-O-Matic" hammer, and in more recent years, by telling shockingly offensive jokes and berating anyone who doesn't like it. Last night, however, the …
Funny or Die is expanding in two different ways that help currently working comedians. Yesterday, the site announced its first Funny or Die Sketch Comedy Challenge. And no, you cannot enter the challenge, because they've already selected the three sketch troupes competing for cash and prizes from T-Mobile, plus a …
Deadline reported today that manager Lisa Blum had joined New Wave Entertainment, taking her client roster of comedians and comedic actors with her from The Collective. Blum's biggest-name (and most active) client is Marlon Wayans — she's currently working on multiple projects with him attached as star. Her biggest working …
Yes. Yes they did. The photo of Whitney Cummings is from the (gold) red carpet last night at the Comedy Central Roast of Donald Trump. The photo of Angelina Jolie is from 2009. This must be why Cummings stood next to me and yet never saw me. Just like Angelina.
Either you're funny or you're not. And it's all subjective. But it shouldn't be subjective to whether you have boy parts or girl parts. I know that. Some of you know it. But there's still some of you who don't. WitStream founder Lisa Cohen wrote an essay about how Twitter …
Shane Mauss was on Conan last night, too. Mauss explained why you should be able to buy grenades instead of guns, and maintained his streak of consecutive mentions of his girlfriend by name on national TV appearances (hi Maggie!). They live in Austin, so if you're at SXSW, please say …
Pee-wee Herman is not just all about balloon tricks, although he did show Conan O'Brien last night what he can do with a balloon. He also got Conan, Andy, La Bamba and more to join in his re-telling of the story of Ash Wednesday and Lent, but in his own …
You've seen Rachel Feinstein impersonate her mother and her grandmother, but until now, you haven't ever seen her as Ice Cold Rhoda. That's because this is a new online talk-show series Feinstein stars in for Comedy Central's Jokes.com, and her first guest is Ginuwine. Something about hearing his own lyrics …