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You might think a movie called Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail, featuring posters of Madea going to jail and a trailer focusing on Madea going to jail, would actually revolve around this central plot point. Of course, fans of Perry's work probably have not been so surprised (well, maybe …
I would tell you what to expect in Judd Apatow's summer 2009 dramedy, Funny People, starring Adam Sandler and Jonah Hill as stand-up comedians, but from the looks of this trailer released today, Apatow's crew did done gone and done it themselves. So if you want the whole plot explained …
Has livetweeting replaced liveblogging as the way to share the experience of watching TV events? If you have no idea what the words in that sentence mean, then, well, let me explain. TV is an abbreviation for television. Oh, comedy. But seriously, Nia Peeples. What happened to her? She was …
"Joaquin Phoenix, Zach Galifianakis called. He wants his f*#&ing Zach Galifianakis back…Now I know how Yakov Smirnoff felt when he saw Borat." — Zach Galifianakis, kicking off a wild, Kaufmanesque set to close Thursday night's Comedy Below Canal showcase at the 92YTribeca. Background reference: Joaquin Phoenix a week ago on …
The elevators open on the sixth floor of 30 Rockefeller Center to reveal a hallway full of activity. We're hours away from another taping of NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien (not to mention test shows underway in an adjacent studio for Jimmy Fallon!). Three floors up on nine, where O'Brien …
And how was your morning? For Tracy Morgan and others who live in his Manhattan apartment building, it was a fiery Wednesday morning as flames broke out in the 30 Rock star's apartment in Trump Place on the Upper West Side, and firefighters discovered it all started with a lamp …
Who does Tim Young from Baltimore think he is…Judy Tenuta? Young spent $700 in a charity auction so he could host Comedy Death Ray, and Patton Oswalt has something to say to the young fella. (Thanks to Videogum) CDR Opening for 2/17/09 from Paul Bartunek on Vimeo. Related: Comedy Death …
If you watch Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO (the new season starts this Friday, Feb. 20), then you know that Maher has two issues that really hit close to home: 1) legalizing the personal use of marijuana, and 2) the silliness of religious beliefs. The latter was the …
If the physical comedy of Rebecca Corry looks familiar, then perhaps you saw this petite powderkeg high-kicked her way into the finals of the fourth season of Last Comic Standing. And you thought I was going to go with some sort of Dane Cook reference? For her first Comedy Central …
Coming off of a long holiday weekend, sometimes you just want to kick back and take some extra time off, only to realize that the comedy news is piling up and needs to get delivered. All of which is to say that Comedy Central presented Pete Lee's first Comedy Central …