The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Lena Dunham’s Girls has yet to return for season two, but executive Judd Apatow and HBO have dropped hints that it’ll be re-upped for a third season already. ABC’s reboot of TGIF continues, as the network has ordered three additional scripts this season …
For two decades, trivia listings on Wikipedia, IMDB and other websites listed Janeane Garofalo as married. Despite her many jokes and serious statements over the years on stand-up comedy stages, TV shows and other appearances to the contrary, in which the comedian and actress claimed she’d never get married, Garofalo …
What’s happening in the comedy world right now… NBC has ordered five additional scripts of Guys With Kids. That makes the network’s new fall sitcom offerings three for four in terms of staying alive through the season and into 2013. Showtime’s House of Lies will welcome two new cast members …
Will Ferrell (friend of Conan O’Brien) made a surprise appearance last night on Conan in his “Ron Burgundy” character to make a very special announcement: He’s finally reached a deal with Paramount Pictures to make a sequel to the Anchorman movie. Here’s Ferrell in his stayest classiest San Diegoist to …
You already knew that Funny People would become the most depressing movie ever made about stand-up comedians since Punchline, and perhaps even more so!Would you like to know how it feels to visit the movie set, then? Of course you would. Thanks, Moviefone.
Society often tells us that women love a sense of humor in a man, and yet to hear many stand-up comedians onstage, all we ever hear about is how that's not exactly so in real-life. Rock stars, models, actors, directors, producers, even the key grip and just about anyone else with …
I would tell you what to expect in Judd Apatow's summer 2009 dramedy, Funny People, starring Adam Sandler and Jonah Hill as stand-up comedians, but from the looks of this trailer released today, Apatow's crew did done gone and done it themselves. So if you want the whole plot explained …
Any great documentary leaves you feeling a greater knowledge and fulfillment about the subject matter, and wanting to further share your newfound knowledge with even more people. Any good documentary gives you insight into a subject and leaves you wanting more. Judging from the first two hours of the six-hour …
Just after we had to say goodbye to Super Deluxe, fellow online purveyor of comedy videos Funny or Die announced it had raised $3 million from, as Reuters reported late Monday, "a single, undisclosed investor" (plus an additional $3 million for "in-kind contributions for marketing, publicity and promotional support for …
Various sources are getting their hands on what appears to be the script for Judd Apatow’s upcoming film about stand-up comedy, Funny People, starring Adam Sandler and Seth Rogen, among many others. Here’s an odd find from said sources: Apparently, Apatow has written in a cameo for Bruce Springsteen to …
