The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In this new TV spot in heavy rotation, stand-up comedian Ari Shaffir plays a fast-food restaurant worker who serves up your breakfast sandwich one way, every day. Wouldn't you rather eat breakfast at Subway? That's what they said. Roll it!
Dave Chappelle hasn't made another TV series since leaving Comedy Central behind five years ago, nor has he starred in a big-screen movie recently. So he must have disappeared, according to CNN, which devoted a "Where Are They Now?" segment to Chappelle this week. Where is he now? If CNN …
Earlier this month, The Comic's Comic told you how IFC was not only acquiring the rebroadcast rights to The Larry Sanders Show, Mr. Show, and The Ben Stiller Show, but also buttressing them with new interviews with stars of all of those instant classic comedies with Comedy Death-Ray's Scott Aukerman. …
Mindy Raf did it last year to record her CD. This summer, Skinny Bitch Jesus Meeting and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict did it to fund their trips to the Edinburgh Fringe. The Monsters of Comedy did it to film a documentary of their West Coast tour this fall. And in the past few …
In 2009, Daniel Kitson brought a one-man show to the Edinburgh Fringe about a man who spent years writing dozens of suicide letters. In January 2011, "The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church" makes its American premiere with a month-long run in Brooklyn's DUMBO neighborhood, as Kitson settles in at St. …
Are you snowed in or know someone who is? I have good news for you, in the form of two new sneak previews of The Onion's two new series, which debut in a couple of weeks on Comedy Central and IFC. Onion SportsDome debuts Jan. 11, 2011, on Comedy Central, …
Back in 1981, HBO put Pee-wee Herman on the pop-culture map by airing his first stage production from Los Angeles. Now that Pee-wee's 2010 comeback has come completely full circle with a successful Broadway run, the pay-cable network will be broadcasting his new take on the Playhouse, three decades later. …
Reggie Watts stopped by Conan last night just in time for the holidays. You know which ones he's talking about. Watch as Watts opens up his big book of parables for some timely lessons, and shares a new song to sing along. If you know the words, sing along! Ho …
Dave Attell swung by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night to talk about the holidays, and in the process, showed off his dreidel to Fallon. Because Attell is Jewish, the holidays mean something different for him than for Fallon. Such as: "Christmas is a long day for the Jews." …
If you saw this ad for The PIT and wondered, hey, that looks familiar, that's because of course it does. The PIT calling its new East Side venue in Gramercy "PIT East: The Beast" is more than a little bit curious since The Upright Citizens Brigade is hard at work …