The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Another three weekends of March Madness have begun anew, as the NCAA men's and women's basketball tourneys are underway (alongside the NIT and the CBI, which I'm still adjusting to acknowledge as an actual thing). Comedians have gotten into the act again, too. Nick Swardson, who has a sketch show …
Amy Schumer made it pretty far on Last Comic Standing a few years ago, and in a few weeks, she'll have her first Comedy Central Presents on the TV. So she decided to hit up her fellow stand-up comedians at the Comedy Cellar in NYC for some testimonials. Should be …
Have you felt like you wanted to experience Paul Provenza's live late-night chat sessions with famous comedians at Montreal's Just For Laughs festival but never had the know-how to get a ticket for it? Well, starting this June, you'll be able to peek behind this proverbial curtain, as Showtime debuts …
Last year, John Hodgman prompted President Barack Obama to acknowledge his love of Star Trek during a delightfully nerdy speech at the Radio & TV Correspondents Dinner. Last night, no Hodgman, no Obama. But Vice President Joe Biden was there to try to crack wise (let's not go there, shall …
Congratulations to rising stand-up comedian Kumail Nanjiani, who got cast today in the TBS hourlong comedy pilot, Franklin & Bash. "I play a nerdy hyper intelligent lawyer who is an extreme germophobe," Nanjiani told me today. "So far, I got the nerd part down." TBS lifted the contingency on the …
Last night's edition of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon saw two of the Bee Gees, Robin and Barry Gibb, confront the comedian who had lampooned them with help from Justin Timberlake on multiple episodes of Saturday Night Live. Well, "confront" and "lampooned" are strong words, because the brothers Gibb were …
I don't know if you're drunk or not, because it is late on a St. Patrick's Day, but if you're sober, you may want to get a wee bit tipsy before watching this new video, and definitely afterward. It features Chris Cain from the band We Are Scientists and comedian …
From a friend of the site comes this classic, and very timely, TV commercial from about 1980 for McDonald's advertising their annual limited-time offer of a Shamrock Shake for St. Patrick's Day. But do you recognize the young man in the "Kiss me, I'm Irish" shirt? It's not me, but …
The genius is in the details, people. We all knew this episode was coming — they teased it last week, even! — but still, so funny. It's Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, and his guest is Ben Stiller. Whether you've seen it before or not is irrelevant, because you'll …
On tonight's Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel sat down with David Letterman as they reminisced about roasting Jay Leno over the comedy coals. Just when you thought you had forgotten all about the "late night wars" of 2010…roll the clip!