The Definitive Guide to Comedy
FOX’s new entry into Saturday-night sketch comedy, the half-hour Party Over Here, debuts this weekend, and the first video teases let you know it’s a very theatrical effort. Nicole Byer, Jessica McKenna and Alison Rich come from theater backgrounds at UCB and elsewhere, and their TV sketches often play out …
FOX is bringing sketch comedy back to late-night Saturdays, and it’s enlisting former Saturday Night Live digital stars The Lonely Island to do so??? Hold on. Not so fast. Yes, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone of The Lonely Island are executive producing Party Over Here with Paul Scheer — …
Andy Kaufman never got to see Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, but if he had, perhaps the late great performer would have served up a tribute similar to what Brett Davis produced on Sunday night, when Davis won the 11th annual Andy Kaufman Award. Davis actually employed some of his …
Don’t know how you feel yet about self-fulfilling prophecies, but it certainly seems as though Montreal’s Just For Laughs successfully read “The Secret” when it comes to its New Faces Characters showcase. JFL created the Characters showcase a few years ago with boasts that you might find the next Saturday …
Each July, talent managers, agents and casting agents converge upon Montreal to network, hobnob and circle around the freshest faces in comedy they can find and say they discovered. Which is how and why Montreal’s Just For Laughs presents its New Faces showcases. In 2015, JFL once more will offer …
Remember when CollegeHumor was just a website by college kids for college kids? Oh, the #TBT of it all. The kids of CollegeHumor may have grown up, expanded, moved into TV and film, but they’re still focused on making new, weird videos for people of all ages to enjoy. On …
