The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Hannibal Buress recorded "My Name is Hannibal" back in January 2009 at the Lakeshore Theater in his native Chicago. The Lakeshore has since closed, but everything else in comedy opened up for Buress in a big way between then and now. We're talking about a guy whose TV set was …
Louis CK's stand-up concert film, Hilarious, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, will make its TV debut first on cable and satellite via EPIX this September, followed by a 2011 run and DVD release through Comedy Central. As Louis CK told me in our most recent interview, …
Comedy Central announced today it would go in for a third biennial production of Night of Too Many Stars: An Overbook Concert For Autism Education, hosted by Jon Stewart and spearheaded by Robert Smigel. The event will tape Oct. 2, 2010, from the Beacon Theatre in NYC, and air on …
We're just a few days away from the start of the 12th annual Del Close Marathon — that's DCM12 for short (and for Twitter hashtag purposes) — and the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre has released the footage from the show that's always a DCM showstopper: That late-late-night Saturday all-star showcase …
And suddenly, our nationally televised stand-up comedy competition has become a comedy pageant, because right off the top, our seven remaining comedians step up to the mic and tell us their names and "hometowns." But it's going to be too late for one of these seven to win our hearts …
When Paul Rust isn't writing a screenplay for Pee-wee Herman, Harris Wittels isn't writing an episode of Parks and Recreation, and Michael Cassady isn't appearing in TV episodes or the UCB-LA Harold Team Arts & Athletics and sketch team A Kiss From Daddy, the trio is making comedy music together …
Just in time to whet your appetite between Comic-Cons, the Sundance Channel presents a series of online short films called "Strokes of Genius" dedicated to two of the influential cartoonists from MAD Magazine — Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragones. Steve Brodner celebrates their life and work in these shorts, sitting …
I've received more than a few emails from people with their own spoofs of the leaked Mel Gibson phone calls, but only one of them comes with an ad for Last Comic Standing at the end of the video. So who wants to bet we see this on the show …
Perhaps you have seen some of the legendary names of comedians on the wall outside of The Comedy Store along West Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. For the first time in nearly eight years, the comedy club has added to the list of names. The celebration, known as Names Night, happens tonight at …
Nick Swardson appeared at San Diego's Comic-Con to help stoke fan interest in his new sketch show, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time, which debuts on Comedy Central in October. Fans at Comic-Con got to see some new Gay Robot material, as well as this sketch starring Mr. Stitches as "Wheelchair Cat: …