The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Whose Line is it Anyway? may be a glimmering memory, and you may not even remember Drew Carey's Green Screen Show, but there is…another. Another new improv comedy "game show" featuring Drew Carey and his collection of comedian friends is coming to TV, this time on GSN, the Game Show …
Thanksgiving is still a week away, but last night, I saw an amazing new ad for Target's "Black Friday" 2-day post-Turkey-Day sale that showed comedian Maria Bamford training and running all around the store. That spot's not online just yet, but others are. Just like last year, it's nice to …
The second season finale from Adult Swim's Childrens' Hospital is finally online for your viewing pleasure. They said it was "live," but if you paid close attention, you would have seen that even though it wasn't a traditional live TV show, the episode did spend its final nine of 11 …
Today is Nov. 17, 2010, which Jimmy Kimmel has dubbed "National Unfriend Day." And I don't know how what to do. On the one hand, I have firsthand anecdotal life knowledge that there's no way I have 2,372 friends — with 95 friend requests pending! — despite the fact that …
We learned today that HBO Films has decided that a biopic of the late Sam Kinison should get the big-screen treatment. Almost two years ago to the day, HBO was planning a made-for-HBO version of Kinison's story with Tom Shadyac directing, and actor Dan Fogler attached to star. The screenplay is …
Roadrunner Records announced today it's launching a comedy imprint called Roadrunner Comedy, with its first artist signing: Doug Stanhope. They even let Stanhope make a short video about it. Will there be profanities? What do you think? Roll the clip! Stanhope's first Roadrunner Comedy release is slated for 2011. …
After performing for 1,100 people on Broadway, the star of new musical "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" did what you might not have expected: Ben Walker headed downtown to perform stand-up for a couple of dozen spectators in the back room of a bar in Alphabet City. Walker (photographed by Mindy …
Some TV viewers were taken aback last night watching Harrison Ford on Conan, not just because people thought he might have been on medication of some sort or another, but because he said the word "shit" on TV, and nobody bleeped it. Conan O'Brien was talking to Ford about Capt. …
I don't know too many comedians who can spend their first minute of a TV appearance on absolute nonsense, in an accent, follow it up with multiple voices, misdirects, looping loopiness, hip-hop wizardry, scatting, an impersonation of a Muppet, and end it all within five minutes leaving the audience in …
It just seems like lots of posts about Conan today. Promise. On last night's show, writer/comedian Deon Cole came on to do what he normally does for Conan: provide him with the black perspective. So Cole pointed out that Conan had some funny ads, some clever ads, but lacked the …