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Vanessa Bayer is a featured cast member on Saturday Night Live this season. Three years ago, she was just another single face on Comcast's Dating on Demand. If you were in Chicago in 2007, you could have looked her up on your cable TV as sassy2 and asked her out …
Earlier this week, a woman who's writing about flirting and has a book deal wrote in Marie Claire about how she is grossed out by the idea of the new romantic sitcom, Mike & Molly, on CBS. Maura Kelly wrote: So anyway, yes, I think I'd be grossed out if …
The Upright Citizens Brigade didn't ask that question, although their latest video from The Brig certainly raises the point. Everyone is going pink in October to raise awareness about breast cancer. Even the NFL is in the game this month with pink cleats and towels. So why not Big Tobacco? …
When I heard the ventriloquist Jeff Dunham was penning his autobiography and doing it with the voices of his dummies, I wondered how in the heck that would translate to print. Well, not to worry, necessarily. Because Dunham also is releasing an audiobook narrated by him of the memoir, "All …
So much thrilling college football and playoff baseball went late into the night on Saturday, so much so that I barely noticed anyone talking about or even thinking about a new Saturday Night Live. Would this lack of buzz help or hurt the program? Let's find out! About the …
On the hottest day Los Angeles had ever known, Dane Cook would not be bothered with a restaurant menu. Sitting down for dinner last month in an Italian cafe on the Sunset Strip, Cook told the waiter he'd like to have a "chicken situation," which, not to be confused with …
The NBA season begins tonight, and stand-up comedian Kevin Hart might not stand as tall as Spud Webb even, but in this brand-new Nike commercial, Hart serves just fine as Dwyane Wade's sidekick. Just don't tell Bill Burr, whom Hart is working with on a potential Comedy Central series. Go …
Punching the Clown is neither a documentary nor a concert film, although it does star musical comedian Henry Phillips as Henry Phillips, a satirical folksinger, and it does incorporate much of his live act into a 91-minute narrative that manages to be both a lighthearted comedy and pointed parody of …
Just as Colin Quinn and Pee-wee Herman launch their own new Broadway productions, word from the street brings even more casting news for spring 2011, with parts for both Robin Williams and Chris Rock to make their Broadway acting debuts. Williams will star as the titular tiger in Rajiv Joseph's play Bengal …
Who knows what goes on inside the mind of Gilbert Gottfried? In this new short film he made himself, the comedian transforms himself into a "Scary Monster." This is how Gottfried explains it: "I threw this film together with a pocket camera. I did the makeup myself from shit I …