The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nicole Shabtai is going to move to Los Angeles and become famous. I'm not a prophet. Shabtai sent out an email saying she was moving. And if you've seen "Citizen Rothstein," her one-woman show — or any of her appearances in videos for LandlineTV — then you could arrive at …
With all of the hype about "Snooki"'s new book, you may not have noticed that comedian Roseanne Barr's third book also is on sale this week (sorry, Patton Oswalt, but you're too smart for TV promos this week, apparently). And Roseanne has been doing press to promote her new tome, …
Wyatt Cenac may not have performed stand-up on last night's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, but he did drop some comedy knowledge bombs on Fallon and the audience. Such as: Cenac interned at SNL in the days before Fallon! He also let it be known that he's taping his own …
What did you do with your time off over the holidays? Looks like SNL new kid Jay Pharoah stepped into a recording studio to lend a few of his impersonations for a Money Making Jam Boys mixtape. How many of Pharoah's voices would you like to hear and see more …
However you may have felt about the first season of Funny or Die Presents on HBO, well, get ready to remember and relive those feelings later this month, because the second season is a lot more of the same. And then some. Getting an early look at the first three …
What do you get if you're the first stand-up comedian to perform on a late-night TV show in 2011? Do you win a prize? If you're Matt Braunger, then you win this clip of your performance last night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Roll it!
As you may recall, January is stand-up comedy month at Comedy Central, which means it's almost time to start seeing the new season of half-hour Comedy Central Presents, and it's time, like it or not, for your favorite comedians (and some you don't favor) to curry favor with you on …
Gallery1988 in Los Angeles, with help from Funny or Die and 100 artists, will kick off 2011 with a massive display of love for comedy and comedians in the exhibition, "Is This Thing On?" It opens with a nighttime reception on Jan. 7, 2011, and will welcome visitors through Jan. …
Not a lot happens in the final week of each calendar year, and yet, local and national TV crews search in vain for things to fill up the air time. Comedian Ben Gleib and a MySpace News crew traveled to LAX and covered this madness firsthand. Yes. I know why …
When Congress finally, belatedly passed legislation to help fund health care for the 9/11 responders, the New York Times — with thanks to the media's favorite pop-culture professor quote machine for more than a decade, Syracuse's Robert J. Thompson (full disclosure: I've even called him for a quote before) — …