The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Movie stars on the red carpet get asked plenty of silly questions. Would they like to play a game? (If you say that last sentence as a talking Radio Shack TRS-80, you get bonus points in everyone's books) So when CollegeHumor's Jeff and Streeter had the chance to visit both …
So Joy Behar was on The Tonight Show, Jay Leno edition, don't call it a comeback. But the real dishy dish happened backstage beforehand, as Behar and her HLN (that's KFC speak for Headline News) people filmed an impromptu chat with Leno. And he was quick to answer the inevitable …
One afternoon, you're sitting in the audience next to Moshe Kasher watching an episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and before you know it, you're soon watching Kasher himself on stage performing stand-up on Late Night. True story! I first met Kasher last summer at Montreal's Just For Laughs, …
Oh, brother. First Lindsay Lohan thought my comedy friend Glennis McMurray was joking about her in a talking baby commercial (seriously?), and now this. To close out her month, Lohan went online to get all up in George Lopez's Twitter grill because he made a joke about her powdered shoes …
Not mentioned during last night's introduction for Pete Holmes at Whiplash: That the stand-up has been recording his routines over multiple performances at the late-night UCB stand-up showcase for a future CD, and that, since it was after midnight, it was his birthday. Happy birthday, Pete Holmes! To celebrate, someone …
Sometimes you come down with a case of the Mondays, but the Internet certainly wanted to change that tune yesterday as it unveiled two completely different yet equally insightful interviews of and about the late stand-up comedian Bill Hicks. When British comic Nick Doody was in college, he had the …