The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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) — …
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 …