The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Everything old is new again, as history and trends repeat themselves with this "new" fad called 3-D movies. Remember when this happened in the 1950s? Of course you don't. You're on the Internet, which means you're so young, you don't even remember the 1980s. But Avatar taught Hollywood that if …
What happens when you take a French film, get Andy Borowitz to adapt a contemporary American screenplay for it, have Jay Roach direct it, and cast Paul Rudd and Steve Carell as the leads, with Rudd playing that "Paul Rudd" character and Carell playing that shades of "Michael Scott" character? …
Sarah Silverman already has acknowledged in interviews that she dealt with bedwetting into her teen years. Who hasn't been there before? Ahem. Anyhow. Silverman has written a memoir about that and more, and it's called, "The Bedwetter." It comes out April 20, and she'll be appearing in six cities at …
If you've ever found yourself watching a movie on DVD and deciding to enjoy the special feature known as the commentary track, then perhaps you'd enjoy what Elephant Larry has done here — incorporate the commentary into the movie! Spoiler alert: It's pretty funny. Roll it. Elephant Larry performs live …
It's not quite FOX Sports' The Best Damn Sports Show, nor is it ESPN's SportsNation, but Versus did launch something somewhere in between the two Monday night in NYC, with stand-up comedian Reese Waters as one of the four co-hosts. You may have seen Waters on the blog before as a …
In case you missed it, for April Fool's Day, Martha Stewart's daytime chat show included plenty of pranks, and to make sure some of the humor was, well, actually humorous, she invited The Onion's Joe Garden and Carol Kolb to set up a fake anchor desk in her studio. Of …
Someone used their hot tub time machine over the weekend to bring this TV highlight out of hiding. Five years ago, Chris Rock warned Conan O'Brien that if he made Jay Leno angry, Leno would stick around for another 20 years on The Tonight Show. Comedians knew what was coming. …
As Dave Itzkoff at the New York Times reminds us all, the boys-to-men of Robot Chicken have been playing with their Star Wars action figures on our Cartoon Network Adult Swim TV channel for years now. That still doesn't make his report today any less unsettling: George Lucas is planning …
Kevin Pollak records his live Internet talk show late on Sunday afternoons (you can see past episodes of Kevin Pollak's Chat Show here), and this Sunday was supposed to be no different, as Henry Winkler sat down to chat with Pollak about all things funny. Even though Californians are used …
Iliza Shlesinger is in New York City this weekend co-headlining at Comix with Kyle Cease. It's not as odd a pairing as when I saw her last at Comix with Glenn Wool, nor, as it turns out, nearly as odd as some of Shlesinger's early stand-up gigs. "I've definitely been …