The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Everybody loves a comedy festival. And in this year of 2016, it doesn’t just feel as though every city has its own comedy festival, because not only do they, but oftentimes, several cities have recruited all-star comedy lineups to their region on the same weekend. And New York City can …
I’m in Portland, Ore., to cover the All Jane Comedy Festival, so that makes today’s first sneak peek at season seven of IFC’s Portlandia extra-keeping-it-weird, yes? In this sketch, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein wonder, “What About Men?” Roll the clip! Portlandia returns for season seven on IFC on Jan. …
When Fred Armisen isn’t remaking Portland into Portlandia with Carrie Brownstein for IFC (their sixth-season finale airs Thursday), he’s playing drums for Late Night with Seth Meyers. Or is he? As Armisen explains in this video for The New York Times T Mag, it’s easy to fake being a drummer. …
In this week’s episode of Portlandia (season 6, episode 7), Fred and Carrie buy tickets to a Louis CK show in Portland, only to have CK cancel last-minute. Things take a turn when they run into him the next day, still in Portland, and force their way into one of …
Más Mejor, the new comedy channel by and for Latino comedians, has launched today. It comes from Broadway Video and puts two of that company’s famous Saturday Night Live alumni front and center: Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen. And here they are in their “first” unboxing video as Cuban toy collectors. …
Former Saturday Night Live stars Horatio Sanz and Fred Armisen are helping their boss’s Broadway Video maintain some sense of diversity by incubating young Latino comedians with a new video outpost, to be called Mas Mejor. “There is no real hub for high-quality Latino comedy,” Sanz told AdWeek. Broadway Video …
Donald Trump impersonations are a dime a dozen, although, obviously any Trump impersonator or The Donald himself would tell you that’s worth billions of dimes. But what about Bernie Sanders? The independent U.S. Senator from Vermont who’s running for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016 has seen his campaign gather …
It’s no secret that some of Saturday Night Live‘s most striking work in recent years has not come via live TV, but come alive via lightning-quick production of thrilling tributes to film via short films. Think of the Wes Anderson Halloween tribute “New Horror Trailer,” Louis CK as Lincoln, or Ian …
The second season of stand-up showcase, The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, premieres late-night Tuesday on Comedy Central after @midnight. If you’re lucky in Los Angeles this week, you’ll see co-host Jonah Ray spinning a custom-made sign on the sidewalks. “I was thinking of wearing short-shorts, tank tops and a …
J.K. Simmons is winning all of the awards this season for his turn as the loud band conductor in the film Whiplash, and everyone rightfully enjoys seeing the industry give Simmons this attention after loving him in supporting roles over recent years in Juno, the Spider-Man series (Tobey and Kirsten …
