The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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!
When people accused Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart with playing fast and loose with sexuality by hiring Olivia Munn as a correspondent, the show somehow failed to answer its critics with the same adequacy with which it calls out the rest of the media for its failings. …
Last week, Conan O'Brien introduced an animated clip from Taiwan that supposedly documented a fake fight Conan and Andy Richter were having in the office. Guess who watched it? The actual animators for Taiwan's NMA (Next Media Animation)! They quickly responded with a humorous counterattack on Conan that accused him …
In case you're not following season 22 of the FOX animated classic, The Simpsons, then you're not NYT reporter David Itzkoff (who's not only watching but taking screencaps!), so let's get you all caught up with the new kerfuffle. Last week, the team took a crack at sister network FOX …
On Thanksgiving, you can be forgiven for not staying up late to watch TV, since you may have had other plans, or not even been at home. But that's no excuse not to catch up now. Conan O'Brien welcomed comedian Brendon Walsh to his TBS program for a stand-up set …