The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When I saw this poster for Pauly Shore's "Vegas Is My Oyster" show at Palms Las Vegas, I didn't quite know what to make of it. OK. So. Obviously Pauly isn't carrying the show, because he's getting help from Andy Dick, April Macie, Tom Green, Dave Navarro (wait a second, …
In making the promotional rounds for his performance in the Yogi Bear movie, Justin Timberlake fielded at least two separate queries about whether he'd want to join Saturday Night Live as a full-time cast member. Timberlake himself didn't bring up the subject either on the red carpet or last week …
During the holidays, many of us will be making trips home to see our families. Unless you're not into that sort of thing. That's when you encounter a different type of trip. The guilt trip. The Upright Citizens Brigade's comedy team is here to help with some trip tips to …
I don't know what you were doing out late on Friday night, because I'm not your mother and you didn't update your Facebook and Twitter status to check in with me on Foursquare. But I do know that if you had stayed in and tuned in Late Late Show with …
What more do you need to know? The HBO series that compiles Funny or Die videos returns in January 2011, and you and I can only hope that they do a better job of putting funny things together so it's more funny and less dying, because dying is no fun. …
Just in time for Christmas, here's a short holiday video from the UCB's Neil Campbell, featuring himself and Paul Rust in a bar where a fat, old jolly man stops in for a drink on Christmas Eve. He looks like Santa. He talks like Santa. He couldn't possibly be Santa. …
In this short video, you'll quickly learn that comedian Ben Lerman plays the ukulele. He also knows how to handle a keytar. But wait. There's more. Lerman will tell you much more. TMI, Ben Lerman. Unless you thought this video was about Len Berman. In that case, you'll learn about …
A new documentary debuting tonight on PBS isn't particularly meant to be funny. The Calling follows seven young Americans as they follow their religious faiths to serve humanity. But in a side project called What's Your Calling?, the filmmakers have expanded the idea to just about anyone and everyone to …
The Lonely Island and SNL weren't the only comedy stop for Jessica Alba last week. The actress, who looks especially nice in soft lighting, it would appear, appeared on a sit-down with MTV Europe's VJ Yeuvejegenja Yevjskaiya. Who's that, you ask? Why it's Paul W. Downs! And if you like this …
It's beginning to look a lot like a Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live, and as SNL closed the books on the 2010 half of its 2010-2011 36th season, some of these sketches looked just like others, a dude was sort of Dude-like, while not being dude enough, and I …