The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here's the thing. Stand-up comedians have a tough road if they want to win NBC's America's Got Talent. You know it. I know it. Even judge Howie Mandel knows it. So it's interesting to watch the path of Philadelphia-based stand-up Doogie Horner, who faced a hostile crowd at his first …
Last night I felt so exhausted that I fell into a sleep coma. But at least I wasn't dead, or almost as bad, having people spread a hoax that I were dead, which is exactly what happened to Bill Cosby. Again. So The Cos even went so far on Monday …
And now, finally The Final 5 cylons, er, comedians in this seventh season of Last Comic Standing will be revealed and perform for your votes and $250,000 in cash and prizes from NBC. Oh, and almost just as importantly, as host Craig Robinson says up front, there's also the "Last …
The 2010 New York Comedy Festival won't be updating its website until Tuesday morning, but tickets will go on sale Wednesday for several of its headlining shows, which the festival announced tonight on its Facebook Fan page. You can figure out the headliners from my headline. Louis CK already had …
I was about to write something about funny friends of mine who are in a new commercial, when the Internets opened up and unearthed this "oldie" from 1995, starring, as the admakers themselves put it: "a terrific young Second City cast member." They added: "It was her first commercial. She …
File this under: Cross-cross-trainer-promotional-promotions. It's Aug. 1, 2010: Funny or Die unveils a redesign, and eight weeks before the start of HBO's second season of Eastbound & Down, Kenny Powers (Danny McBride) is back already — and with his too-loyal Stevie Janowski (Steve Little) to boot — to pitch an NSFW ad …
The kids at UCB Comedy are rather good about turning around video, because as the sun rose on Sunday, they had highlighted footage from scenes that happened only a few hours earlier at the 12th edition of the Del Close Marathon. Blink and you'll see and/or miss last night's UCB …
It's been a higher-profile year so far for Mike Vecchione. He performed well into the semifinals of Last Comic Standing, taped a set for Comedy Central's new Russell Simmons Presents Stand-Up at the El Rey, was just a "New Face" at Montreal's Just For Laughs, and last night, performed a …
Four years ago, Bill Burr infamously turned the tables on a horribly behaved audience in Philadelphia. Since then, most comedy fans have come around to Burr's way of thinking, but it has been interesting to see what the comedian has been up to recently. Whether seeing him headline an hour …
If I had been hip to BBC America back in 2005, or lived in the U.K. in 2002, then I would have known long and well about the wonderment that was Look Around You, the spoof on science and educational videos presented by Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper. The first …