The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
I'm very excited about the new HBO series collaborating with Funny or Die, who in turn is unleashing lots of great comedians to do their things on cable TV. Here are four new teaser trailers for sketches from the series Funny or Die Presents, which debuts at midnight Friday, Feb. …
Apple sent Comedy Central's Daniel Tosh one of its new iPads, and this is what he did with it. Roll the clip!
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
You may not have heard of Jamie Kilstein, but if you're politically active and like to laugh, perhaps you have heard Kilstein. The stand-up comedian co-hosts the online radio podcast Citizen Radio with Allison Kilkenny — they're presenting a live sold-out Citizen Radio broadcast tonight at the UCB Theatre in …
One of the most popular Super Bowl ads last night was Google's spot that already had more than a million YouTube views before Sunday, in which an unidentified man enters a series of search queries involving trips to France and a French girl he meets, woos, weds and becomes a …
The E*Trade talking baby was at it again with a new series of ads that debuted during the third quarter of the Super Bowl. Did you know that the baby is now being voiced by stand-up comedian Pete Holmes? I did, and I talked to him earlier today about his …