The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Week Two of the prelims ended over the weekend, and the semifinals have begun in the 35th annual San Francisco International Comedy Competition. Who is still in the running? After a car accident sidelined comedian Marc Patrick (!?!), whom we presume is OK otherwise (!?!) — these are your 10 …
So now the truth can be told? Amid laughing along with Jon Stewart about his recent appearance on Oprah Winfrey's "final" season, David Letterman disclosed the real reason Oprah had been giving him the cold shoulder for years upon years. Turns out she doesn't enjoy "a little horseplay." And by …
Roy Wood Jr., last seen on your TV dial finishing third on this season of NBC's Last Comic Standing, and perhaps last seen by you at a nationwide LCS tour gig, can now be heard by residents in his hometown of Birmingham, Ala., on radio station 95.7 FM "Jamz" in …
Remember the Comedy Central series, Shorties Watching Shorties? Taking a stand-up comedian's bits and animating them sometimes can be a wonderful way to, well, illustrate the story being told within the joke. OK, I clearly need to stay out of the sun. The heat is beating me down. But I …
Would you like what's behind Door #1 this morning? What if I were to tell you that it's Wayne Brady, Mike Tyson, Jamile McGee and Bobby Brown remaking Brown's music video for his 1988 hit, "Every Little Step," choreographed down to every little step? Don't believe me? Roll the clip! …
Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, for you kids who only watch King of Queens and Seinfeld reruns, are the parents of Ben Stiller. For you kids who don't know who Ben Stiller is, then, well, you're young. I get it. Stiller and Meara, meanwhile, have been a comedy and life …
AMC's cineplexes nationwide are planning two special screenings in October of the 1985 blockbuster movie, Back to the Future. The Oct. 25 screening happens 25 years after the fictional date in which the movie trilogy started for Marty McFly. Check AMC's Back to the Future site for a location near …
As if the cast members on Saturday Night Live didn't already feel like they live in a constant pressure cooker already, wondering from week to week and day to day if they're ready for late-night network television and validated by Lorne Michaels to continue their comedy careers…now there are multiple …
For all of you people who thought the constant chatter from people yesterday about the heat in Los Angeles was a joke, or worse a bad joke, well, it has turned into sad news. Sally Menke, longtime film editor of Quentin Tarantino, died sometime yesterday after walking her dog in …
"Please don't blog about that joke, because I'm afraid they're going to find out and kill me." — Aziz Ansari, after working out a new bit at the "What's Up, Tiger Lily?" show Monday night in Hollywood, Calif.