The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Were you on YouTube on Friday? You probably noticed Rob Riggle on there hosting a special two-hour live improv show with his colleagues from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater. That was just the start of a five-day promotional stunt for HP's ePrint, which has allowed viewers to submit their sketch …
If you want to know why some comedians go overboard in asking fans and followers to vote for them in Comedy Central's annual "Stand-Up Showdown," then just look at the recent record. Jeff Dunham topped the vote in 2008 and finished runner-up in 2009, and got himself a ventriloquism sketch …
Remember when mashing up clips for funny movie trailers was a meme? Remember all the way back to 2006? Ah, them's the days. Well, it's 2011, and maybe you're ready for a refresher course, as brought to you in this series of trailers for suspense movies based around the cast …
Sorry. Try again this year. For a list of boring and/or fascinating but all-too dramatic nominees in the 83rd annual Academy Awards, click here. You can watch Oscar-winner Mo'Nique announce some of the nominations, at least? Or read live-Tweeting action by comedians during the Oscars on Feb. 27? Eh. Moving …
It isn't as easy as it looks to make mockery of liberal hippies, but that's usually because the jokes are coming from conservatives who are unfunny pricks about it. Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein certainly aren't that. They know their targets. They know their target audience. And in their collaboration …
Before these items lose the "new" part of the news, here's a look at the good, the bad and the weird making news in comedy today: The 2010 winners of the British Comedy Awards were honored over the weekend. See the full list of winners and nominees! On the other …
Michael Kosta is a tennis player and the youngest child in his family. I don't need to tell you those things, however, because Kosta gets into both of those topics in his first half-hour Comedy Central Presents, which debuted on Friday night. What he didn't say then, because he didn't …
On Wednesday morning, Mike Birbiglia will step into the display window of Macy's department store — the flagship Macy's in New York City's Herald Square — and spend the next week sleeping (and not sleeping) there in the window. I know. He knows. Here's a short video for Downy (the …
Amber J. Lawson is bringing her comedy sensibilities to roost at her new gig heading up programming at AOL, launching a new nightly clip show tonight that culls together highlights from the popular podcasts of Kevin Smith, Adam Carolla and Kevin Pollak. Lawson told The Hollywood Reporter: "The idea is to …
Comedy Central kicked off its 2011 season of half-hour "Presents" on Friday night with Tom Segura. If you can imagine Patton Oswalt telling jokes, and also imagine Mike Bridenstine telling jokes, and then imagine the two of them telling jokes at the same time as one person, then you're not …