The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you're curious, TBS did take an official photograph yesterday to mark the moment in time when Conan O'Brien fulfilled his promise to himself to wear jeggings for an entire show of Conan. This is that photo. Enjoy!
OK, people. Raise your hands if you remember when Onyx recorded a very NSFW Hanukkah rap for an HBO series called Hardcore TV in the early 1990s. Raise your hands if you remember Onyx? Raise your hands if you just don't care. Now you're getting it… My Damn Channel reminded us …
In June 2008, the Comic Strip Live comedy club in New York City established a Guinness world record for longest stand-up comedy show with a 50-hour marathon. Starting on Monday, Dec. 6, The Laugh Factory in Hollywood, Calif., plans to break that record and then some, aiming to host upward …
Where are all of the comedians at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011? Not exactly at Sundance. Now that the full slate of films is out, there's not quite the bounty of recent years past. In competition, there's a documentary — Being Elmo — about the man behind the popular …
When you saw TV Guide acquire and rebroadcast episodes of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, did you wish that someone would do something similar with your favorite critically-acclaimed comedy from the 1990s? IFC is doing that next month. Starting in the first week of January 2011, the cable network Independent Film …
A remarkable thing happened earlier this week on New York City's Upper East Side. An organization, the 92Y, offered a full refund to patrons who attended an event with celebrated comedian Steve Martin. How did this happen? Why did this happen? Let us face facts. The 92Y advertised Steve Martin …
Grammy nominations came out late Wednesday night, and for comedians, it was business as usual in the Best Comedy Album category, with previous winners Flight of the Conchords, Lewis Black and Robin Williams joined by previous nominees Margaret Cho and Kathy Griffin. Sorry, newcomers! Just like some of the other …
The Comic's Comic has learned a fun piece of comedy news, and yet… Which mainstream media outlet is holding onto a scoop about comedians you knew and loved on the TV, coming back to the TV, but with a twist? I'd tell you more, but it's not my scoop! Hurry …
Last year, the Sundance Film Festival boasted its first-ever stand-up comedy film in Louis CK's Hilarious, an award-winning documentary of Joan Rivers (Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work), and a controversial comedy about terrorism in Four Lions. For 2011, how about Being Elmo? BEING ELMO: A Puppeteer's Journey (Director: Constance Marks) …
Woody Allen turns 75 today. So it's oddly coincidental for animator Dan Meth to unveil this new animated/live-action short featuring the classic comedian. It's called "This is Crazy." Which it is. It's crazy. Happy Birthday, Woody!