The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You know it’s a full-fledged comedy boom when they’re manufacturing and marketing stand-up comedy toys for kids! From friend of the site J.P. Buck came a #LastMinuteGifts photo of a “Clap & Laugh Microphone Set” on sale for $29.99. From the company Toys To Grow On, it’s marketed to children …
The UCB pitched this video in an email as if it were one of those dumb misleading Upworthy things, and you’ll never believe what happened next: I still wrote a post about it! MERRY CHRISTMAS! Watch as Santa (Flytracker) and his helper elf (Shockwave, aka Chris Sullivan) treat tourists and …
This is the funniest Christmas video you’ll see today, if not all season. Billy Eichner, host of Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street on FUSE, welcomed Amy Poehler to join him in New York City’s Flatiron district to see if anyone would sing Christmas carols with them. For a dollar. Any takers? …
If you feel like you need your Kyle Mooney and Good Neighbor holiday fix, haven’t not seen enough this past weekend on Saturday Night Live, then just think back a year to Christmas 2012. That’s when Mooney unleashed a 28-minute Christmas special full of joy unto the world. With metal …
Did you know that before Michelle Buteau got married, she went Dutch? And then she married Dutch, so to speak. Her husband is from Holland is what I’m trying to say. Alrighty. Having gotten that fact established, Buteau, as seen on VH1’s Best Week Ever and the upcoming FOX sitcom …
New York City-based comedy rock band Fortress of Attitude is halfway through a “12 Christmas Songs in 12 Days of Christmas” project called “Bigger Than Santa.” They may have found their winner with “Carol of the Comedians,” with traditional Christmas tune having its lyrics adapted entirely to names of famous …
Nick Kroll’s new sketch comedy series, Kroll Show, debuts Jan. 16, 2013, on Comedy Central. Warm up for that, and warm up for the holidays with a customized Christmas (or Hanukkah) drink! Comedy Central’s official holiday greeting for 2012 is an interactive party with Kroll’s character, Bobby Bottleservice, as he …
A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired 47 Decembers ago in 1965, and continued its traditional primetime run in network telecasts Tuesday night on ABC. The kids at FOX ADHD, however, have served up an alternate universe for the Peanuts gang — one in which the kids not only have grown …
Stop. Look. Listen. Late Night with Jimmy Fallon sets itself apart from the other late-night TV talk shows by all of the ways that it’s NOT a talk show. Last night’s show gave anyone a reason to feel happy about the holidays, as Jimmy Fallon and The Roots offered up …
Chevy Chase may think he’s too good for network TV sitcom work, but he won’t turn down a paycheck when it comes to reprising an old movie character in a Christmas TV ad campaign. He began reappearing as Clark Griswold on your television screens last night in the 2012 holiday …
