The Definitive Guide to Comedy
After the unexpected ending of his musical performance on last night's finale of American Idol, Dane Cook told me this morning via email a little bit more about the "before" part of the process, and credited comedian J. Chris Newberg not just for working with him on the song, "Simon …
If you haven't listened to Marc Maron's interview with Carlos Mencia that went online on Monday on Maron's WTF podcast, then you can just skip ahead to today's second part, because it's much more revealing. Maron himself felt that his first chat with Mencia hadn't really uncovered much, so he …
With Simon Cowell's final season as the judge who matters on American Idol coming to a close last night, I wouldn't have thought that there would be actual comedy to pay attention to, but of course that meant that there was, and let's talk about it. Without any explanation, the …
The newest movie under the Judd Apatow umbrella — he didn't write nor direct Get Him to the Greek, but is still out promoting it on TV as its producer (sorry, Nick Stoller) — is a spin-off of Forgetting Sarah Marshall focusing on Russell Brand's character, rock star Aldous Snow. …
As I predicted the moment TBS signed up Conan O'Brien for late-night, the cable network has announced that it'll be taping a TBS special with Team Coco for Just For Laughs Chicago! With a catch. It's not going to be an exact replica of the Team Coco live show currently …
The Friars Club has announced the finalists among sketch and improv groups competing for cash prizes at the first FrISC competition to be held June 25-26 at the UCB Theatre in New York City. Improv groups will perform June 25; sketch groups on June 26. The winning sketch and improv …
I get so tired about people debating the topic of whether women are and/or can be funny. Yes, they can. Yes they can. Yes they can. Seriously. I think the problem is that stand-up comedy is so dominated by men, that the female numbers remain so small by comparison that …
Brian McMullen wrote in Salon today that he is putting together a McSweeney's book of self-portraits doodled by creative types, with help from author and creative type Jonathan Ames. You can give Salon 20 more page-view clicks by viewing their slideshow. I've saved you one click by sharing with you …
Mystery Team may not have made The Hangover money in 2009 — Derrick Comedy's feature-film debut earned all of $89,442 in box-office receipts from its limited distribution in cinemas, according to Box Office Mojo. I think it may have been one of the more criminally overlooked comedies of the year. …
I know that Bill Blumenreich, operator of The Wilbur Theatre (and former owner of the Comedy Connection) in Boston, has Celtics season tickets right behind press row, because I'd seen him on camera before. Well, Blumenreich decided to use his high-profile seat last night to promote Frank Caliendo, and more …