The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Super Bowl commercials are airing earlier and earlier each year. Two weeks before the big football game to decide whether the Denver Broncos or the Seattle Seahawks are the NFL champions of the 2013 season at Super Bowl XLVII, Feb. 2, 2014, in East Rutherford, N.J., we’ve already begun seeing …
Improv comedy fans received an early Christmas and New Year’s present when Showtime announced it’s airing a long-form comedy special with Ben Schwartz and his cast mates from the network’s House of Lies for New Year’s Eve. Schwartz executive produced the project HOUSE OF LIES LIVE!, and wrote on Monday: …
Each year’s return to award season reminds us how comedy and comedians all too often are overlooked, marginalized or otherwise different enough from other performing artists such that, heck, how can anyone win, really? For every victory or nomination at the Academy Awards for individual achievement — screenplays are often …
