The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Did you get a half-hour Comedy Central Presents? Oprah isn't exactly giving them away in her final season, but Comedy Central is handing out sixteen half-hours, taping in October in New York City, and airing on your TV sets sometime in 2011. You can get free tickets here. Here are …
This kid's got the knack for knowing and showing, and looks like he's growing. It's Bo Burnham, y'all. All 20 years and six-foot-something of him, debuting the first music video off his new disc, "words, words, words." Co-produced by Kool Keith, who also seconds Burnham's notion that he's a hypocrite. …
Radar Online continued its ongoing coverage this morning of the long-ago sex tape Chelsea Handler made that is supposedly about to resurface for purchase. So what? You say Chelsea Handler herself already addressed this back in April when Radar first revealed the sex tape's existence, and offered her rebuttal? Let's …
Byron Allen's entertainment empire, Entertainment Studios, is unleashing four more comics on TV in a new weekday syndicated chat show that debuts Monday, Sept. 20. The Gossip Queens will enjoy what's known as a "slow rollout" in syndication, according to the press release, debuting on TV stations in Chicago (WCIU), …
I'm not an expert on TV, although I play one on the Internet. So let me tell you this: When a TV network changes the time slot for a series twice in its initial season, that's not usually a good thing. Is it ever a good thing? Discuss. In your …
Look at how quickly Conan O'Brien is decorating his office. Nuts! He has nuts, people. Almonds, to be specific. So that's one question you don't need to ask Conan about. For all other questions, he says he'll answer them, but only if you can follow instructions. YouTube commenters cannot follow …
Hey guys! I don't know what it was about Sept. 13 that made comedians decide to produce YouTube videos to announce their fall comedy tours, but both Bo Burnham and Tim & Eric did so. They're not touring together. Unless Neil Hamburger turns out to be Burnham in disguise. Which …
Just watched this new 26-minute interview with Kyle Cease, which isn't really so much an interview as it is an infomercial for his "stand-up comedy bootcamps," although it's not so much an infomercial as it is really the whole thing. In a nutshell. Did this save you a bunch of …
The Xtranormal series "Stand-Up Comedy is Not Pretty" has introduced its first official collaboration, as Roy Wood Jr. co-wrote and "stars" as an animated version of himself in this sketch of a talk-show appearance gone very wrong. If you need to catch up, read this first. Roll it!
Forbes has released its rankings of top-earning comedians for the 12-month period ending June 1, 2010. If something about the list looks different from 2009's top-earning comedians, that's intentional. Despite making $75 million in that span, Jerry Seinfeld isn't even on the list. Neither Jay Leno nor Conan O'Brien made …