The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The cast and producers of 1994’s Reality Bites reunited 25 years later for a screening and panel retrospective over the weekend at the Tribeca Film Festival. Lisa Loeb even showed up onstage to play her hit song, “Stay,” over the end credits. Watch Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Winona Ryder and …
August means comedy has taken over Edinburgh, Scotland. This year, more than 60 of the 3,972 shows playing nightly across the city will feature American comedians. They include college troupes from Cornell and Stanford, the always popular musical improv from Baby Wants Candy, the return of Brendon Burns and Colt …
BOOM BOOM BBQ, the SXSW announcement is here! Read it and laugh… South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals (March 10-19, 2017) has announced the initial list of SXSW Comedy Festival participants. This year, the SXSW Comedy Festival celebrates its tenth edition. Over the last decade, the festival has hosted hundreds …
Alamo Drafthouse, a 25-location chain of movie theaters based in Austin that prides itself on offering high-quality food with their movie offerings (and has expanded to include its own festival, Fantastic Fest, and entertainment website, Birth.Movies.Death), is celebrating the grand opening of its newest location in downtown Brooklyn this weekend …
This is a banner week for Michael Ian Black. Black has a new children’s book that he promoted on Late Night with Seth Meyers (you can pre-order A Child’s First Book of Trump now), his latest stand-up special, Noted Expert, premieres this Friday night on EPIX, and he’s been announced as host …
Greg Behrendt gets introduced to the stage these days as a best-selling author, which is true, but there’s more to Behrendt than meets the eye of anyone who read He’s Just Not That Into You. Or the follow-up books he has written with his wife. Or who saw him host …
Janeane Garofalo is, was and shall ever be a comedy darling. She broke through in a big way in 1992, performing on one of the all-time lineups for an HBO Young Comedians Special and co-starring in both The Ben Stiller Show and The Larry Sanders Show. Over the next few years, …
The Bentzen Ball, an annual comedy festival curated by Tig Notaro and presented by Brightest Young Things since 2009, was an unequivocal smash hit this past weekend in Washington, D.C. From the moment it began on Thursday with an all-star lineup sitting on the sofa with Dr. Katz (Jim Gaffigan, …
Amy Rice directed a documentary following Barack Obama from Illinois to the White House (2009’s By the People: The Election of Barack Obama), which was nothing like summer camp. Especially nothing like a movie about summer camp. Nor the decks of footage Rice had stored away in her closet from …
Friend of the site Julie Seabaugh put together an oral history on Wet Hot American Summer for this week’s Variety, just in time for the launch of the prequel miniseries this Friday on Netflix. Would you believe they tried to make a Wet Hot TV series way back in 2003? …
