The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In its third consecutive year, it's beginning to be difficult to call the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival the anti-festival. Actually, it's been difficult all three years. Despite the fact that some of Mirman's festival features are clearly fake and satirical, there's an even truer fact — it's even more factual, …
Warning: The show "Love Can Suck a Dick…and So Can I," does not feature any actual acts of fellatio. Double warning: Leslie Meisel and Megan Neuringer will make you double over with laughter as they rewrite whatever notions you have of a show that revolves around heartbroken woman. The show …
Despite what the folks at The Hollywood Reporter say, or my best intentions to get Conan O'Brien to name his new show Team CoCo A GoGo, the talk-show host's new talk show on TBS will be called exactly what the ads already have been calling it. See the ad? If …
Before you get too excited by thinking I've rounded up some interviews with the brand-new members of Saturday Night Live, let's remember that Will Forte just left the cast and moved back to California. The folks at JoBlo got on the horn with Will Forte, and he told them that …
The Upright Citizens Brigade is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its Los Angeles theater with two different all-star lineups of shows on Sept. 18 at the UCB's northern Hollywood hub. Tickets ($20) go on sale Sept. 1 at noon Pacific and should sell out quickly. Both shows are hosted by …
Xtranormal is an online video resource that allows you to animate your own scripts within a limited variety of scenes and characters. Sounds like fun, right? Well, a couple of people have decided to give us a look at a couple of the more unpleasant parts of the stand-up comedy …
Hunter Stephenson reports for VICE from the Puerto Rico sets of Eastbound & Down's second season, officially subtitled "Season Dos: Deep Inside Mexico." Here's a quick tease from HBO with Kenny Powers riding that moped:
No offense to Margaret Cho, who was named to the cast of competitors for the 11th edition of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, which kicks off in September 2010, but unless she decides to take this seriously, I'm not holding out much hope for her to actually win or come …
New York City and Boston may be hosting their annual comedy festivals in November 2010, but only Philadelphia is trying to make November "Comedy Month." Or at least the first three weeks of the month. I know it's still August, but today is the early deadline for groups from the …
Every once in a while, you'll see a live stand-up comedy show somewhere you'd least expect to, like, say, someone's apartment. Chris Gethard (Comedy Central's Big Lake, UCB-NY star) did this as stunt once. In Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood, however, there's an apartment building that not only hosts its very own …