The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It's really quite something to see the success of all three primary members of Front Page Films — filmmaker Oren Brimer recently started working as a segment producer on The Daily Show, Pete Holmes debuted his first half-hour Comedy Central Presents special last month, and Matt McCarthy has a stand-up …
Today's snapshot comes to us via Mike Birbiglia via Lynn Shawcroft. Earlier this week, Jeopardy used a classic joke from the late Mitch Hedberg for an answer. You know the question? Of course you do.
Sub Pop announced yesterday it was releasing the first new stand-up comedy special from David Cross in seven years, with the upcoming "Bigger and Blackerer" CD and DVD coming out on May 25. As Sub Pop explained (see the track listing here): The new David Cross album and DVD Bigger and Blackerer …
The second "Women in Comedy Festival" kicked off last night in the Boston area, with shows continuing through the weekend at Improv Boston in Cambridge and Mottley's Comedy Club in Boston. It could easily be another gimmicky thing. But to the credit of festival co-director Maria Ciampa and her fellow …
Comedian Christian Finnegan shared this snapshot from a publicity moment for his upcoming TBS sitcom adaptation of the movie, Are We There Yet? His caption: "Here's a shot from my recent family reunion." Haha. Funny. We get it, in a one of these things is not like the others kind …
HBO announced late yesterday that the pay-cable network had ordered a second season of The Ricky Gervais Show, which animates years-old podcasts that Gervais recorded with comedy partner Stephen Merchant and radio foil Karl Pilkington. The re-animated workings in this first season — which debuted in February — haven't exactly …
Here's something you don't see every day. A famous comedian performing in his "home" club on his birthday, and getting serenaded by the club's owner and the audience. And yet, that was Dane Cook, last week, at The Laugh Factory, with club owner Jamie Masada and a very appreciative audience. …
Here's a snapshot my friend in comedy Brody Stevens took last night at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, after he got bumped so Chris Rock could test out some new jokes on an unsuspecting audience. And a small crowd at that. As Stevens wrote to accompany his Twitpic: "Chris …
Look. I have a very basic understanding of how the Internet works, and one thing I do know is that when a video debuts on an already popular site around dawn, by late afternoon, if it's funny, it gets circulated to other popular sites. And maybe you weren't like me …
For its second year in the Second City, Just For Laughs Chicago is bringing back Ellen DeGeneres for another TV variety show, recording a special with Cedric The Entertainer, and welcoming Aziz Ansari, Russell Peters, Denis Leary's "Rescue Me" tour, a Nasty Show hosted by Greg Giraldo with special guest …