The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
A lot of people thought Ellen DeGeneres seemed uncomfortable as a judge last season on FOX's American Idol, including DeGeneres, who just put out a statement late today that she would not return to the series. She said on her site: A couple months ago, I let FOX and the …
Drew Carey hosts The Price is Right, not The Biggest Loser, but sometime between taping his game show and Tweeting about the World Cup, the comedian improvised a weight-loss plan of basic diet and exercise to drop upward of 80 pounds. Carey, 52, told People magazine that he cut the …
Mike Birbiglia will perform stories from his off-Broadway production of "Sleepwalk With Me" as part of a special run next week to raise money for The Nature Conservancy and its efforts to clean up after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Tickets cost $20. Other details? Check …
Even a movie promotion cannot stop this new episode of "Between Two Ferns" from being surprisingly funny, but then again, when both Zach Galifianakis and Steve Carell star in the movie Dinner with Schmucks, and they both are funny in pretty much every situation they choose to be, then this …
The recent Bill Simmons mailbag came to my attention last night, and I couldn't stop thinking about it for a couple of reasons. Simmons fielded a reader question about who he'd pick as the "funniest man alive" and says that he "spent way too much time thinking about this," and …
If you wonder, what good is it to try out for Last Comic Standing if you're not going to make it to the finals, well, I've noticed that a few of the semifinalists already have cashed in with new late-night TV credits — Kurt Metzger did Fallon a couple of …