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Here's something you don't see every day…Andy Richter as a talk-show guest, where the host is the ghost of Tom Carvel (yes, the Carvel of Fudgie the Whale and Cookie Puss), and the sidekick is a topless woman. It's about to debut on Funny or Die and it's called — …
During yesterday's Super Bowl snarkathon, more than a few comedians I know expressed their displeasure through sarcasm or sincere dislike for the E*Trade talking baby ads. They're fully within their rights to do so, except that some of these people, I'm fairly certain, are fans of Pete Holmes. And Holmes …
Did you enjoy the Super Bowl commercials? Did you, really? Did you Laugh Out Loud and Roll On The Floor Laughing? Not nearly as much as JR Burningham of Burbank, Calif., a 31-year-old web designer and former USC film school student, who spent $500 and borrowed his neighbor's pug to film …
What, no role for Paul F. Tompkins? Everyone else Tom Scharpling likes seems to find his or her way into this new music video for The New Pornographers, "Move." Complete with a separate fake movie trailer for Expectant Dads, featuring a pregnant Paul Rudd and Bill Hader. Roll it! …
The Writers Guild of America handed out its annual awards last night in simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Modern Family co-stars Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet hosted the West Coast show, while Kristen Schaal hosted from NYC and opened with some jokes as well as a song-and-dance number, which you can watch: …
For the first time in almost two decades, Mike Myers joined Dana Carvey on the Saturday Night Live stage to reunite for a Wayne's World sketch. Wayne's World! Party time! Excellent! But first: A special note. SNL's cold open began with a voiceover from the late Phil Hartman. While the live …
For those nostalgic for early 1990s SNL, the return of Dana Carvey as host would bring back memories, but Justin Bieber wasn't even alive during those years — which makes it that much more awkward to hear Carvey as the Church Lady get all hot and bothered over him. Then …
The south's largest comedy festival has risen again this week in North Carolina. I haven't been yet, but performers who have done so, returned saying only nice things about the NC Comedy Arts Festival outside of Chapel Hill. Plus, Emo Philips is there this year! Check out the rest of the lineups… …
My condolences go out to the entire Second City family, as their maternal leader for almost all of its first 50 years, Joyce Sloane, died last night. She was 80. The official notice from The Second City on Sloane's passing : We are heartbroken to let you know that Joyce …
You may be used to seeing Kurt Braunohler onstage or on TV with his comedy partner, Kristen Schaal. You may have even seen Braunohler onstage solo doing stand-up, or with improv groups at The PIT in NYC. Get ready to see him in a brand-new, old-school comedy role: Late-night talk-show …