The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Norm MacDonald will be returning to your TV dial this month, but not in a sitcom nor in a "reality" show. Nope. Norm's the new host of GSN's High Stakes Poker, which opens its seventh season on Feb. 26. And you can see MacDonald and the poker action from the Bellagio …
This video is just for fun. Matt McCarthy plays a substitute teacher who has to deal with a classroom of high-school students in which jeggings is only the least of his worries. It's safe for work, but only thanks to pixels and CollegeHumor. Roll it! Oh, hi, Jermaine Fowler.
I don't know how you feel about Sarah Palin, and I'm not sure I want to know. But if Palin were replaced by Gina Gershon, I hope you'd agree with me that life would be a much better place. In this clip for Funny or Die, Gershon as Palin imagines …
FX announced tonight that it had renewed fantasy-football sitcom The League for a third season, to go into production this summer with a fall premiere, in time for, well, football season. If the NFL doesn't suffer a lockout or strike, that is. But check out this quote from FX e.v.p. …
In the 1986 hit movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Matthew Broderick made us want to be Ferris, if only for a day. It also made at least one guy want to find out what day game of the Chicago Cubs that Ferris, Cameron and Sloane had attended after skipping school. This …
For the West Coast edition of the 2011 WGA Awards, Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet — Modern Family's gay couple — opened the ceremonies with a song and dance of their own, called "Write it Gay." Roll it! (Note: May be NSFW for one or two profanities) The …
If you're in New York City, following the media, and have an iPad, then you definitely have heard a lot about The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's new iPad-only daily publication that launched this month. They've already gotten some comedians on video for it, too. For the Super Bowl, they asked Ron …
Two of the more surprising Super Bowl commercials this year involved comedians. Make that comediennes, as in Joan Rivers and Roseanne. Yes, Richard Lewis also was in that Snickers commercial, but he didn't have do any of the heavy lifting, or in this case, pratfalling. And I'm sure plenty of …
CMT has brought back its Next Big Comic online voting competition, with these 12 comedians asking for your votes each week during the next month: Andrew Norelli, Cy Amundson, Keith Alberstadt, Tom Segura, Kelly MacFarland, Nate Bargatze, Andy Sandford, Tim Harmston, Matt White, Sean Keane, Andy Woodhull and Michael Palascak …
Greg Giraldo's widow, Maryann McAlpin-Giraldo, and best friend Joe Schrank have launched a foundation to raise money for children like Giraldo's who are impacted by addiction. Money raised will help children attend the Betty Ford Children program, as well as develop a similar program in New York City. The first …