The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you missed the debut of Chelsea Peretti's first half-hour Comedy Central Presents, which aired over the weekend, then you can relive it through recaps. Peretti opened by acknowledging her "weird actractiveness level" with the audience, as they're apt to be judging her on her looks before she gets them …
You've heard of the Guinness Book of World Records. If you're on the Internet, which I know you are, then you may have heard of the URDB. UCB original Matt Besser isn't listed in either of these record databases, although he claims to own several comedy records already. Among them: …
As we become more and more interconnected by the series of tubes that contains the wires that shuttles the data that makes up the World Wide Web, it must be that much more difficult to come up with an idea that somebody else hasn't already thought up and posted up …
Having already posted two big SNL sketches from last weekend on Saturday night, I wanted to step back from the show and come back to it later. So here we are. Later. Within a few seconds of watching Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's alternate response to President Obama's State of …
Former SNLer Casey Wilson has posted some photos from behind-the-scenes of her upcoming ABC sitcom, Happy Endings, which is scheduled to debut April 13. The cast also includes Elisha Cuthbet, Eliza Coupe, Damon Wayans Jr., Adam Pally and Zachary Knighton. Here's one of Wilson as Snooki. You like? (Via Whatevs) …
It's not quite a sequel to the 2009 film, I Love You, Man, so call this scene an extended bonus happy ending, as Peter Klaven (Paul Rudd) gets a special birthday present from his BFF, Sydney Fife (Jason Segel): all-access passes to a Rush concert. They go backstage afterward into …
The 92Y caught a lot of flack over its recent panel with Steve Martin because the conversation with the comedian spent more time on his love of art than it did on things that the Upper East Side venue's audience wanted to hear: Namely, things that are funny. They're making …
In case you thought everybody already was in the online game of producing short comedy videos, well, now count big-time "reality" show producer Mark Burnett in, too. A press release this morning announced that Burnett had agreed to a deal with AOL.com in partnership with John Wiley & Sons and …
Remember all the way back to a few nights ago, when TNT's Kenny Smith and Charles Barkley baited Tracy Morgan on live TV into a who'd-you-rather game between Tina Fey (Morgan's boss on 30 Rock) and Sarah Palin? The game backfired on them when Morgan joked that Palin made for …
HBO has set a date for the new version of Pee-wee Herman's show, straight from Broadway to your TV. The new and improved Pee-wee Herman on Broadway will debut on March 19, 2011. Roll the clip! And if you're too young to remember the 1970s, then brace yourselves, because …