The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Congrats to Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani (and Emily, too!) for getting their weekly Meltdown Show profiled last night on Last Call with Carson Daly. Yeah. Sure. Who’s watching NBC at 2 a.m.? I know. But still. It lives and breathes as video on the Internet. And that counts for …
When Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler told Oprah Winfrey on her show yesterday about the time when Aniston turned down Lorne Michaels and the chance to join Saturday Night Live, more than a few people may have been more than a little shocked. Aniston? On SNL? Here's the clip: …
In a five-minute rant, political comedian Jamie Kilstein challenged people who like President Barack Obama just because he's not as horrible as Bush was, challenged Obama to joust with Osama Bin Laden, took on McDonald's, the notion of slutty girls causing 9/11, and pointed out the nonsense of killing people …
Larry the Cable Guy has done a lot of press recently to promote his upcoming History Channel series, Only in America, and I'll get to that soon enough. The series debuts next week. But here's something you don't see every day, much less any day. Larry the Cable Guy referring …
Craig Rowin went on YouTube a couple of months ago and asked for someone to give him $1 million. Rowin then boasted that someone had stepped forward to present him with the money, and put on a live show last night at the UCB Theatre in New York City, complete …
Billy Gardell's new Comedy Central special and upcoming DVD, "Halftime," opens with a shot of the comedian driving across one of Pittsburgh's many Three Rivers bridges as a morning radio program begins. As Gardell told The Comic's Comic, he was this close to taking a job in morning radio back …
Two new Foursquare comedy videos are online this week. One of them is completely real, though. Let's see what we've got. First up, it's My4SquareAlibi: Now how about Foursquare for Sex (NSFW): Time's up. The real one is My4SquareAlibi.com. Those may be comedians in the "testimonials," but the …
If all you know about Mike DeStefano is what you saw of the comedian last summer on NBC's Last Comic Standing, then welcome to this site, because you must not have been here before. So here: Read my interview with DeStefano from last year, in which he talks about his …
In a new op-ed for The Herald in Glasgow, Scotland, Doug Stanhope stands up for comedians everywhere by writing about the nature of offensive comedy, focused on a recent uproar across the pond about a joke Frankie Boyle had told that had offended a woman in the audience. Stanhope defends …
In this new video interview, comedian Tommy Davidson reflects on a 2008 encounter with gossip mob TMZ.com that showed him in an older sports car, unable to start the engine. Davidson talks about how it made him re-evaluate his priorities and materialism. All I could think about was how this …