The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The ECNY Awards are back for a seventh year, and this time around, the New York comedy community can have even more of a say in who gets honored for his/her/their work in 2010. That's because the ECNYs have added four new categories: Best Podcast, Best Comedy Event (one-off special …
Congrats to Paul Scheer, who just received a 12-episode order from Adult Swim based just on his commercial that aired during another Cartoon Network/Adult Swim program, Childrens' Hospital. Deadline reports that Scheer is writing and executive producing the series, with Childrens' Hospital's Jon Stern also onboard as e.p. On Twitter, …
If you know or see someone in Los Angeles who needs some help this Thanksgiving, make sure you tell them that the Laugh Factory once again will open its doors to them with free food and comedy. It's the 31st year Jamie Masada has hosted a free Thanksgiving event for …
Look, just because Facebook helped convince Lorne Michaels that Betty White could host Saturday Night Live in her 80s (with a little help from several former SNL ladies), that doesn't mean everybody else should be mounting a campaign to host the show. Which is where Cookie Monster comes in. Cookie …
There's parallel thinking, and then there's the time a TV show asks you for permission to use your work, and then does so without credit. That's apparently what happened last night to VH1 bloggers Rich Juzwiak and Kate Spencer, no thanks to The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. In a …
The 2010 edition of the Seattle International Comedy Competition enters its fourth and final week with five finalists, two based in Seattle, two in Portland, and the fifth in Los Angeles. And they are, in alphabetical order (and also pictured with contest guru Ron Reid in a different order)… Drew …
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Comedian filmmaker Jordan Brady has put a few bonus clips from his documentary I Am Comic up on Vimeo in recent days. If you'd like to see Tommy Davidson practice kabuki, then get your kicks. Here are two other clips that may have more intrinsic value for your comedy needs. …
Jay Pharoah is a very confident young man. And yet he is still a young man. Both of those things were plainly evident as Pharoah became one of the quickest SNL hires to get a sit-down with David Letterman on last night's Late Show. If you were hoping to learn …
More than a few people have wondered when the performance space next to Two Boots Pizza on Avenue A in the East Village would open for business as the Upright Citizens Brigade's UCB East (or UC Beast, as Ian Roberts jokingly suggested at the start of this summer's Del Close …