The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Bobcat Goldthwait wouldn’t have ever been “Bobcat” if he hadn’t met Barry Crimmins first, some three decades ago when Goldthwait was a teenager in upstate New York. Young Bob followed “old” Barry to Boston in the early 1980s, where Crimmins took the eccentric, unique comedic voices of Boston and created …
Whether you watched today’s Nathan’s International Hot Dog Eating Contest and found it ridiculous — or refused to watch it precisely because it’s ridiculous — you’re right in your right as American to feel that way. And also correct, but perhaps not for the reason you think. So instead, watch …
This movie trailer lives on an electronic device you’re holding, down by the river! Or something like that. Here’s your first look at the new documentary, I Am Chris Farley, which opens in select movie theaters across America at the end of July. (Trailer via Buzzfeed) I Am Chris Farley, …
The Comic Strip on New York City’s Upper East Side opened for business 39 years ago this coming Monday: June 1, 1976. From the start, the stand-up comedy club was a launching pad for some stellar careers, including Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano and Chris Rock. Many more came …
Enjoy this Throwback Thursday with a look back across a century of laughs and comedian-on-comedian ribbing as PBS premieres a new half-hour documentary on The Friars Club as part of the “Treasures of New York” series. The special debuts at 10 tonight on WLIW21, and 10 p.m. Friday on WNET-THIRTEEN. …
Kevin Pollak is on his phone, negotiating terms of his next film, when I prepared to talk to him Tuesday about his first directorial effort, the new documentary Misery Loves Comedy. Things are looking up. All is not miserable in Pollak’s world right now. Even if his character in the CBS …
Mark Farrell and Von Decarlo, Patrice O’Neal’s fiancée for 10 years, have launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise money to finish an official documentary on the late, great stand-up comedian, Better Than You. Farrell is directing the project, with Sansan Fibri and Jason Steinberg joining him and Decarlo as producers. …
It’ll be Christmas in April! All of the surviving members of Monty Python — John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin — will come to New York City in April to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail as well as the …
The Tribeca Film Festival already had announced a big, NYC-based offering to kick off the 2015 slate — #TFF2015 April 15-26, 2015 — with the opening-night selection of Live From New York!, Bao Nguyen’s documentary looking back at 40 years of Saturday Night Live. Now the festival has added a …
Tom McCaffrey is even more of an aspiring stand-up comedian in Adventures In Comedy than he is in real-life. Or is he? Such is the journey McCaffrey enjoys and endures in this mockumentary, with interviews and advice from the likes of Margaret Cho, Jim Gaffigan, Janeane Garofalo and Aisha Tyler, …
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