The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Harvard Sailing Team has been making New York City audiences laugh for years with these two sketches in which the boys and girls play with what you know about boys and girls, and men and women. This week, they finally put them both on video so you could see what the …
On "The Early Show" this morning on CBS, Harry Smith moderated the show's weekly roundup to make jokes about current pop culture events. His guests: Mo Rocca, Iliza Shlesinger and Kevin Hart. Smith paused before saying Iliza's last name, then got Hart's name right without pause. But the CBS graphics …
And another thing. Funny or Die just released this video to promote its upcoming spring college tour with Nick Kroll, Chelsea Peretti and Donald Glover (not pictured in this video), in which they're supposed to be scientific specialists on decoding text messages. Um. Hmmm. Er. Uhhhh. What? Roll it? This …
Remember the old days when you tried your darnedest to impress college campus social directors at conferences such as NACA, then hit the road for a series of well-paid one-nighters? Well, those days are still here. But more and more, the big corporate brands are doing their own thing. I've …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they're comedians? No, that's not it. It is a fact, though, that America's biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Earlier this week, the dueling 64-comedian "March Madness" (Comix) and "Final Four" (Carolines) competitions came to an end, with Sam Morril earning the $500 prize and gigs from Comix, while Nate Bargatze won the similar prize at Carolines (plus an extra gig during this fall's New York Comedy Festival). How …
The Upright Citizens Brigade unveiled a new look for UCBcomedy.com, designed to make it easier and more fun to explore their vast catalogue of fun-time videos. And would you look at this? The front page featured a backstage interview with one of the UCB's success stories, Bobby Moynihan, who talks …
There are multiple online services that offer to monitor your online traffic and break down your audience's demographics. Out of curiosity today, I looked at some of these sites. This paragraph from Alexa stopped me in my tracks. Either this is an April Fool's joke on me, or I need …
If I quit the Internet, how many of you would notice, and how many days would it take before you just turned to some third-rate comedy site or hoped the mainstream media would pick up the slack, and then forgot about me? Because if ever there were a day for …
From my friend Mindy Tucker comes this snapshot from Monday night's Whiplash show at the UCB Theatre in NYC. After surprise drop-in appearances by Martin Lawrence and Bobby Slayton turned out to be fake-outs by guest host Sean Patton, Patton introduced Zach Galifianakis to the crowd. Galifianakis is back in …