The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Bil Dwyer has hosted several real game shows (Extreme Dodgeball, I've Got a Secret, and Dirty Rotten Cheater among them), a meta parody game show for MTV (The 70s House), and an inhuman battle to the death (Battlebots). This fall, you can see Dwyer anchoring the Tiny Football League. What's …
The game show Family Feud is back again for another go on TV with another new host, and this time it's comedian Steve Harvey who's shaking hands and asking what people were most likely to say in response to basic polls. Same theme song, same basic premise, new flashing lights, …
Did you know that Cartoon Network's Adult Swim has moved up the premieres of new episodes of Delocated to Thursday nights, ahead of what now are repeats on Sundays? Weird, right. That's what the Delocated blog says. News to my DVR. I'll top that with this: Jon Glaser received a …
This reminds me of the time Lorne Michaels went on Saturday Night Live to invite the Beatles to reunite on SNL. Except in this case, Diddy really did promise on New Year's Eve to attend the monthly Chris Gethard Show at the UCB Theatre, and here we are nine months …
If you watched the opening of the 2010 NFL regular season last night on the NBC television network, and you live in the NYC metropolitan area, then perhaps you saw comedian Ali Wong. Wong has a new spot on the telly telling us about NBC New York. Roll the clip! …
The Arizona Daily Star in Tucson reports that Don Pardo, at age 92, will return once again for the 36th season of Saturday Night Live to provide the voice-over introductions of the cast, host, musical guest, and Weekend Update. Pardo had been flying back and forth from Tucson to NYC …