The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When you turn on your TV tonight and gather around your computers, tablets and phones for that second-screen social-media experience of laughing along with the Emmys with your “friends,” you’ll find that many of them aren’t offering their live commentary tonight on Twitter. Rather, they’re on another network, as the …
When you become such a beloved comedian that everything you say is amplified — Your essay in response to the Boston Marathon bombings brings us all together! Your lack of response to rape jokes must mean you’re just contributing to rape jokes! Your failure to use the Sarcastica font on …
We’ve seen Twitter feeds mined for quick-and-easy book deals before, but how about a board game? Miami-based All Things Equal is banking on Rob Delaney and his 836,000+ followers @RobDelaney to put the party in its “Family and Party Games” site with the release of Rob Delaney’s War of Words™. The …
You may not know that you’re already following the career of comedian Mike Burns, unless you already know that Burns also types out observations on life as Michigan resident Karl Welzein, aka @DadBoner. His online alter-ego has amassed more than 133,000 followers on Twitter, and a gig contributing dadboner columns …
Are you or have you ever been a stand-up comedian who has put in your time, paid your dues and continues to work in clubs, colleges and anywhere else you can get gigs? Would you consider yourself a “veteran comic”? Here’s one new way to find out. Read the Veteran …
Speaking of the Peabody Awards… Jim Carrey’s music video this week for Funny or Die, “Cold Dead Hand,” takes a satirical look at the NRA through the late Charlton Heston and how the gun-rights lobby could be so out of touch with reality. It has more than 1.77 million views …
At the end of Tuesday night’s episode of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central, host and star Daniel Tosh took about 140 seconds to call out his several Twitter imposters. “It’s not a parody if it’s done this poorly!” Tosh said. “100,000 of you are stupid enough to believe this hack is …
Did you hear the one about the satirical publication that live-Tweeted a joke on Oscars night that won hundreds of favorites and ReTweets, only to vanish an hour later after many more voices called out said publication for being tasteless, misogynist and even racist, and then prompt an extremely rare …
Rob Delaney has upward of 765,000 followers of his Twitter feed @robdelaney. Maybe even more than that now. What you read on his Twitter, however, and what you actually can hear him say on network TV are two very different things. For one, you can’t say much of what Delaney …
The most recent episode of the PBS Off Book webseries, “What’s the deal with Internet Comedy?” invited three comedians to discuss three facets of comedy that reaches you over the series of tubes we call Internet. You are using them now. Good job. Jon Friedman talks Twitter, and how the …
