The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In "Gone Madigan," Kathleen Madigan's first hour-long stand-up set recorded for DVD since 2006, she proves that she remains one of the best women, if not the best, working on the stand-up comedy circuit. She does so simply by using her common-sense philosophy to analyze the madness that surrounds us. …
Ricky Gervais is a beloved comedian here in America and also in the U.K. for knowing just how to tiptoe across the line into offensive humor without being so offensive as to lose our love for him (see: The Office, Extras, his podcasts, his hosting/presenting riffs on awards shows). In …
The kids from the animated "Frosty the Snowman" special are all grown up now, and they have very grown-up problems, at least in the world-view of NYC sketch group Murderfist. Nothing about this is safe for work, unless you are in social work. Roll it! Ready to call your …
Maybe you've seen Tron: Legacy, and maybe you haven't, but until you've seen the Iraqi version of Tron, then you haven't seen anything. This is the latest short from comedian Fahim Anwar and filmmaker Aristotle Athiras. Roll it!
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While books and blogs continue to perpetuate the "Late-Night Wars," the people who actually host late-night TV in the late-late night continue to provide evidence that all is well in the world still. At least well past midnight, where Jimmy Fallon and Craig Ferguson are concerned. Fallon and Ferguson have …
As long as I'm lurking inside the inside of the Internet, might as well share this sweet little parody with you. Chuckle if you must at the name Engelbert Humperdinck, but he's a real man who, in 1967, sang a #1 hit song with "Release Me." Now, at the end …
Call this meta. Call this inside baseball. But it's interesting to note when The New York Times decides to let one of Rupert Murdoch's employees review an NYT reporter's book and publish it in the NYT, when Murdoch's publication isn't even a publication yet. And yet, it's about comedy, and …
You may have heard and/or seen footage from Diddy-Dirty Money's CD release party, which during a live Ustream, featured a naked woman in a bathtub whose hair gets the Michael Jackson Pepsi treatment. For you kids, that's a 1980s reference meaning she caught her hair on fire! But check out …
While I remain pre-occupied on a "secret" assignment — what could it be? Am I really just sick? Am I really just tired? Am I really just sick and tired of blogging? Maybe, maybe, and no. But I am pre-occupied with other projects right now, so I should take a …