The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Did you like the Funny or Die video featuring Megan Mullally and Thomas Lennon exploring the origins of the double-entendre catchphrase, "That's what she said"? What if I told you someone else had attempted to explore this similar theme for comedy two weeks ago? What. As if you're surprised in …
Such a beautiful day here in New York City. Snow fell overnight. Everything looks pretty. Maybe you'd like to pay us a visit? If you do, you'll need tips. The 92YTribeca assembled a bunch of comedians to offer their best advice already, and now they've done it again. Remember to …
If you think the sexually loaded innuendo of a catchphrase, "That's what she said," started with NBC's popular sitcom, The Office, then you would be wrong. As this exclusive report from Entertainia Now discovered in tracking down Kim Marlowe, a woman who had sex with lots of guys in junior …
Someone in our conference call with Sarah Silverman last week asked her if she had any sexual tension with Demetri Martin. I didn't have to worry about restraining my hyena laughs because my end of the line was on mute at that very moment. There's no such thing as a …
When I said Arj Barker was one of my favorite absurd stand-ups around, I wasn't sure if that was the right way to describe him, so I asked him myself. Would you consider yourself an absurdist? "Well, yeah, a little bit. Or an idiotist. Idioist? A lot of my humor …
The Traverse City Film Festival in Michigan is adding its first comedy component this year, from Feb. 19-21, and organizers Michael Moore and Jeff Garlin have announced an eclectic lineup, saying in a mass email today that they "think you'll agree that we have shot out of the gate with …
My expectations aren't exactly high for this week's episode of Saturday Night Live, even though Ashton Kutcher has hosted the program before. I don't know. Maybe it's all of his Twitter "fame" and his camera commercials that makes me suspicious that something has gone awry in his sense of humor …
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 …
Stephen Colbert won the Grammy Award on Sunday night for best comedy album for his collection of all-star duets on "A Colbert Christmas." When you have talent like Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, John Legend, Toby Keith and Feist helping you out, Colbert's disc certainly had a much richer musical experience …
Maybe if you're looking to find out how the janitor and the animal handler for the Dharma Initiative learned how to do their jobs. Because those are the subjects of these two lost Dharma Initiative Orientation videos for Lost — the final season on ABC kicks off tonight — which …