The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Imagine a future in which aliens threaten the Earth, only to have the President of the United States in 2776 and the first president, George Washington, travel through the centuries to show the aliens why America and the planet are worth saving. And our first and future presidents are voiced …
In case you missed it…Ellen DeGeneres was too sick to show up for work for the taping of Friday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, so she called in an Ellie to substitute. Ellie Kemper, as seen on The Office and Bridesmaids, and soon to star in a new NBC …
Jerry Lewis is at the Cannes Film Festival, so reporters had the bright idea to ask him if he has discovered any funny women in the 15 years since he had declared publicly that there weren’t such a thing. Various reports, including the AP, noted that Lewis first jokingly offered …
Joan Rivers was the official substitute host for Johnny Carson before she ever had her own late-night TV talk show. That was then. In 2013, you have YouTube, and now so does a Joan Rivers talk show. “In Bed With Joan,” a weekly half-hour chat show, launched this week with …
Thrash Lab has released a new 11-minute documentary on improvisation in comedy — specifically set in the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Hollywood, and speaking with Matt Walsh, Jason Mantzoukas, Paul Scheer, Ellie Kemper, Kay Cannon and others about “The Harold” form of improv. It’s a good, quick overview of …
