The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The second annual Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival has joined up with Second City alums and more as the schedule comes into focus. JFL Chicago 2010 already had announced another new TV special with Ellen DeGeneres, Denis Leary's Rescue Me Comedy Tour, Cedric the Entertainer, Aziz Ansari, Russell Peters …
One of the more intriguing events listed on the schedule for the 2010 Bridgetown Comedy Festival was a panel featuring writers for Conan O'Brien moderated by Jimmy Pardo, who had provided the audience warm-up comedy for the short-lived Conan edition of The Tonight Show. What would they say about the …
We open cold with President Obama (Fred Armisen) blabbing away something about financial reform, and yes, I know Obama gave a speech to Wall Street on Thursday, but that doesn't mean we can go a couple of minutes into the show without a single joke or laugh line. Not a …
You know what's so great about the 21st century? Celebrities don't have to worry about taking any hard-hitting questions anymore, because the Internet makes anyone with an Internet connection a star. Lights Camera Jackson is an 11-year-old "kid critic" of the movies, who already talks like he has been studying …
If you thought that HBO's series, Hung, was a little odd for the premise of a series — a guy who's otherwise down on his luck realizes he can make money becoming a male prostitute because of how he is "hung" — then just imagine what it'd be like if …
I was among the witnesses for Marc Maron's live taping of his WTF podcast over the weekend from the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, in which Hari Kondabolu, Ian Edwards and others gave Maron the business in front of a packed live audience. That should be a fun one to listen to. …
This is unusual. Alan Grayson, a Democratic congressman from Florida, will debate former GOP President George W. Bush tonight — except it's not really Bush but instead comedian James Adomian, and the live debate is happening as part of a comedy benefit in Hollywood that also will feature performances by …
I've written plenty about musician John Mayer's sincere efforts to perform stand-up comedy on the side, and spoken at length with John Mayer one night about how his attempts at comedy sometimes can go far, far astray. He cares about comedy as an art, even if he doesn't always get …
Is I Am Comic the best documentary about stand-up comedy? Not entirely sure about that just yet, although the DVD and extras might tip the scales. Certainly, Jordan Brady's I Am Comic gives viewers one of the broadest looks inside the minds and the world of working stand-up comedians. And …
Even three time zones away, my radar went nuts overnight tonight with people buzzing about brilliant young stand-up comedian John Mulaney, who is a writer for Saturday Night Live and got his own segment during SNL's Weekend Update last night. Seth Meyers tossed to Mulaney so he could opine for …