The Definitive Guide to Comedy
While Cleveland's own Drew Carey has spent most of his summer talking up soccer/football at the World Cup in South Africa (Carey is a minority owner of Major League Soccer's Seattle Sounders), the folks in TV Land Cleveland, as in TV Land's Hot For Cleveland, got its sitcom cast of …
MTV News caught up with Chris Rock and Adam Sandler on the red carpet for their current movie, Grown Ups, and asked them about their work as producers on an upcoming biopic of the late Richard Pryor. Marlon Wayans is slated to star as Pryor, and Rock defends that choice …
Even though Twitter has been around for long enough for everyone to figure it out, I feel like there are too many people who just don't get it. I know they don't get it because they say so, publicly. Or they show their lack of understanding by making themselves look …
Comedy Central has had a presence at previous editions of Comic-Con, the annual convention of comic fans in San Diego, but this summer, the cable network appears to be doing more to entertain you freaks and geeks. On Saturday, July 24, 2010, Comedy Central presents a free show at the …
Pee-wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens) announced last night that Judd Apatow would be producing his first new movie in decades, with comedian/actor Paul Rust (a UCB mainstay who in some ways embodies a younger next-generation version of Pee-wee) on board to co-write the screenplay with Reubens. No director is attached …
Interesting to see so many of the people I follow on Twitter and other blogs yesterday bemoaning the decision by Starz to pull the plug on its comedy Party Down after two seasons, when the ratings and the reality clearly didn't warrant a third season. I've seen numbers indicating that …
Just when you were feeling good about how your comedy career was progressing, here's a reminder that you probably didn't record your second stand-up comedy CD before you turned 20. Bo Burnham — the teen who became a musical comedy star thanks to the YouTube and recorded his first Comedy …
Sam Tripoli's "Naughty Show" at the Hollywood Improv got a little down and dirty last week when "The Amazing Racist" (aka comedian Ari Shaffir) dishonored porn star and comedy fan Dana DeArmond in some fashion that is not captured on tape. What was captured was what happened next: 1980s WWF …
Louis CK told me last week that he decided it was more than OK to use the stand-up he had been delivering to audiences over the past year and incorporate it into his new FX comedy, Louie. He hadn't filmed it yet for a DVD, so he said: "Then what, …
I have to admit that the heat wave of the past week slowed my internal processing unit, and that's not a euphemism, so it's only now that I can live comfortably once again today that I truly could appreciate this new parody video of the New York Times wedding "Vows" …