The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
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! …