The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Some comedians are content to perform in comedy clubs and theaters, perhaps even alt-rooms such as bars and rock clubs. Chris Gethard is a little bit different. In the past year, this skilled Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre performer has taken fans along on a full-day bus tour to see the …
The Writers Guild of America held their annual awards in simultaneous ceremonies last night in New York City and Los Angeles, with 30 Rock and Modern Family both bringing home two awards each among comedies. The ceremonies also included special awards, previously announced, for Larry David as well as Alan Zweibel and …
Updated 2/25: RIP Andrew Koenig, found dead today in Vancouver's Stanley Park. He was suffering from depression. He was 41. Passing along some news that's definitely not funny, even though it concerns Andrew Koenig from "Never Not Funny" and better known from his teen-actor turn as "Boner" in the 1980s …
You're going to see Jen Kirkman get drunk tonight on HBO and tell her version of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln as part of a new installment of "Drunk History" on Funny or Die Presents, with Don Cheadle and Will Ferrell playing the historical roles in a re-enactment. This comedic …
Remember how recently someone posted a video of the popular CBS sitcom, The Big Bang Theory, but removed the audience's laughter from the scene in an attempt to point out how the jokes in the scene might not have been so funny? That inspired some different opinions on the nature …
You've heard of 2 Girls, 1 Cup, right? I'm not going to link to that viral video shocker that shocked millions with its NSFW depths. But the Upright Citizens Brigade's Ian Roberts, co-star of the upcoming Spike TV sitcom, Players, decided that without a proper marketing budget, he would re-create …
Tom Green has enjoyed a lengthy career on the fringes, and sometimes the cutting edges, of broadcast comedy, from his cable access show in Canada, which begat an MTV talk-show, and for the past three years, an Internet-based chat show filmed from his home in Southern California. But now Green …
Atom.com, which became part of Comedy Central and the MTV Networks family in 2008, announced it's getting a bit more TV love from its broadcast partners this spring — a third season of its half-hour "Atom TV" on Comedy Central at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday mornings (or overnight Mondays), and also …
When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow night, and Friday blends into Saturday, TV viewers tuned into HBO will think they're time-traveling Lost-style, as psychedelic 1960s music leads you into a computer room from the early 1980s, and "host" Ed Haligan gives you your orientation to what's about to happen to …
Scotland gave birth to curling, so I thought it somewhat appropriate that I was watching Winter Olympics curling action yesterday when I spoke with Scottish stand-up comedian Danny Bhoy. Well, somewhat appropriate. "Let's both decide that's not a healthy way to start the morning," Bhoy said. How's this for a …