The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What do the kids at Barely Political do when they're not unleashed Obama Girl on the masses? Well, turns out they're still making videos, and this new one casts Ted Alexandro as a hacky stand-up comedian (in real life, he is unhacky and very funny) brought in to teach the …
The Winter Olympics open tonight in Vancouver, British Columbia, but "World Champion" Judah Friedlander won't be there. He's in New York City this weekend headlining at Comix comedy club. The reason, Friedlander tells me, is obvious. "I'm banned from the Olympics, and Olympics in Canada don't really count. Or in any …
I know there are two sides to every story, and Andy Dick said just that on his Twitter feed last month when he got arrested in West Virginia after a comedy stop there. That said, this alleged re-enactment of the events by Apple Action News — which for reasons not …
A friend of the site emailed me early this morning with footage of comedian Eddie Pepitone heckling himself. Yes. That's a real thing. In fact, I've seen Pepitone do this bit when he has been in New York. It's quite something. And I realized that he has done it before. …
So Cheech and Chong are back, sort of. Well, they are back and on a reunion tour, with live dates continuing through the end of April 2010. And on March 1, Cheech and Chong will be the guest hosts of WWE's RAW in Oklahoma City. And now they have a trailer …
Spike has set a debut date, web page and promo videos for the new sitcom Players, which co-stars the Upright Citizens Brigade's Matt Walsh and Ian Roberts as two brothers who open a sports bar in Phoenix. Hijinx invariably ensues. The initial 15-second teaser showed that Horatio Sanz and Jon …
I don't know who is in charge over at Muppetland these days, but whomever it is, he or she really has figured outhow to tap into the new digital generation of viewers with their videos over the past year or so. This latest one, "Beaker's Ballad," shows they know how …
If you do not know what NSFW means, then you have not been on the Internet during this century, because it means Not Safe For Work. And if you do not know that GoDaddy.com's "banned" Super Bowl ads over the past several years have been the worst kind of tease, …
I saw an ad for NBC's new show, Who Do You Think You Are?, and I felt like I had seen it before, when I realized I had seen it the other night on subway advertising for a new PBS series, Faces of America. They both sit down celebrities and …
CMT, cable television's country music channel, has announced it is helping Rooftop Comedy in its search for stand-up talent for the 2010 Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival with a partnership called "Next Big Comic." It's not a TV series, mind you. Rather, Rooftop and CMT have put clips online from 12 …