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 …
While others were gossiping about the possibility that Larry David had written a potential Broadway play for Jerry Seinfeld on Showbiz411, the comedy911 bell was ringing today as Seinfeld and Jason Alexander (in full George Costanza attire and without his hairpiece that he affixes specifically to play anything but George …
In case you missed it, Will Ferrell showed up during one of Saturday Night Live‘s commercial breaks over the weekend — as Ron Burgundy — shilling for a Dodge Durango. And before you can wonder how Burgundy time-traveled from the late 1970s to today to know about SUVs or even …
Last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon kicked off an ambitious, weird experiment in advertising that’s both old-school #tbt-worthy, whilst also modern enough to throw in all of the social media that goes with using a hashtag and an acronym like #tbt. For four consecutive Thursday nights, Lexus is assembling …
Stand-up comedian and actor T.J. Miller stars in a new ad campaign for Motorola’s Moto X phone, playing the role of the competitor’s smartphone in everyday situations. The ads just started running last week. But this “Lazy Phone” spot, in which Miller sings Miguel — eventually, after first talking his …
Just in time for the new NFL season, State Farm has convinced Robert Smigel and George Wendt to bring two of the Saturday Night Live “Super Fans” back out of retirement, as “Da Bears” fans star with Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers in this new 30-second commercial. Roll the …
Here’s one way to know you’re making it. You’re in a national TV commercial for a big brand, with a big star, but you’re the star of the commercial. Such is the case for stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress, who holds court on the basketball court in this new Nike commercial, …
Billy Crystal may be a native New Yorker, but his heartstrings forever tug for his hometown of Long Beach, the Long Island town where the 65-year-old grew up. So when Long Beach needed someone to tell everyone else that the city had reopened for beach business this summer — 10 …
JC Shakespeare is one of a few young comedians who appeared in an infomercial about college loans in 1990, and 23 years later, he uploaded the video to YouTube today. Shakespeare writes in the description: “This was my first paid gig as an actor, and perhaps it was for Patton …
Holy Throwback Thursdays! Nirvana just re-released a 1993 TV commercial for the band’s “In Utero” album — which featured comedian Bobcat Goldthwait in drag, teaching Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and the late Kurt Cobain about childbirth. As Goldthwait noted on his Instagram account today for #tbt, “In honor of the …
