The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Friars Club has announced a contest that help take your sketch and improv teams to the next level of your careers, you know, the kind of level that could make you big enough in show business to be invited to become members of The Friars Club! To make it …
Do you ever wonder what song is playing during the montage of your favorite TV drama? No need to Google it. No need to Bing it, either. Our friends Stuckey & Murray have done the work for you, and here they are (or here they were Monday night at the …
Remember how Seth MacFarlane decided to extend his animated brand of comedy into YouTube shorts? Well, he's at it again, but this time he's in cahoots with the people from Priceline. Which means, William Shatner? Shatner has done animated comedy before. What do you mean you don't remember "The Gavones"?!? …
Famous funny people, they're just like us! When they have kids, they want to make sure they end up in nice schools, and if the public schools aren't cutting it, they send them to prep school! Or they try to make the public schools better. Witness Jon Stewart and Louis …
I know all of you got so excited yesterday about Conan O'Brien's live North America theater tour that you promptly bought up as many tickets as you could (including most if not all of the two nights here in NYC at Radio City Music Hall). But did you notice who …
Remember how I said just the other day that Kyle Kinane's new stand-up comedy recording, Death of the Party, is funny and that you should buy it? Here's another bit from the record, now animated, of Kinane talking about how people and bunnies brightened one of his days. Note: Includes …
You think you know improvisational comedy? You studied with Del Close and the UCB? Well, forget that. Learn this. Or just sit back and laugh, as this team upends the rules of improv, so you can "Improv Yourself" in this how-to that imagines what some poor saps may have purchased …
Conan O'Brien confirmed this morning that he and Team Coco will be touring North America this spring — more on that in a later post — but even more awesome is the news that the tour joins up with the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee this June. Bonnaroo …
Here in the States, we have Comedy Central. In Britain, they have Dave. See how we're the same and yet so different? Actually, they have a U.K. version of Comedy Central, too. So why don't we have our own Dave? Or do we, and he is in hiding. So many …
Of all of the things that happened at the ECNY Awards ceremony Monday night at Comix in NYC, this sequence from the opening video was an all-around crowd pleaser. You don't need to have seen the original aged TV footage to appreciate this, but if you have (or if you …