The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A full 117 episodes into their weekly run on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network — beamed from New York City’s public-access cable TV to viewers everywhere online — The Chris Gethard Show jokingly allowed all of its regular panelists and irregular guest characters and audience members to make big announcements on …
Don’t try this at home. Definitely don’t try this at Katz’s. Because it already has been done, and now it has been well done, the beef has been corned, all of the pastrami is hot and put on rye, and there’s no need for you to copycat a copycat when …
If you saw a large tour bus rolling along the streets of Los Angeles last weekend with the faces of Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel painted on its side, with them inside, then you got a first glimpse at their upcoming Crash Test stand-up special. As Scheer jokingly told his …
Will Hines and Neil Casey are two of the finest improvisers and sketch comedians in New York City, or your city if they were in and/or are coming to your city, and for a glorious time they performed sketches together in an Upright Citizens Brigade show called “Small Men.” This …
Need a fun little ditty about improv comedy that anyone can enjoy, whether you love improvising, hate improvisers, or hate to love loving to hate all of the above! Roll it. From Hard Left Productions, straight out of Boston. Lyrics by Robert Woo. Here are the lyrics if you want …
Improv. Say that one word in comedy circles and you’ll see a multitude of reactions. OK. Mostly likely one of three: Love. Hate. Indifference. Or maybe even something that’s along the spectrum that connects those three. Who decides to pursue a life or career in improv comedy, what are their …
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 …
Comedy Central’s sketch comedy series, Key & Peele, returns for its third-season premiere tonight. From the start of each premise, through a wonderful job of heightening and tight closing buttons to sketches, it’s simply great comedy. And the tremendous onscreen chemistry between leads Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele certainly adds even …
After several years in the planning, talking and writing, the co-founding leaders of the Upright Citizens Brigade finally accomplished the publishing stage of their effort to write their own book on improv comedy. Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh, alongside “UCB Four” co-founder Amy Poehler, unveiled “The Upright Citizens …
We’re riding along with Kanye West in his Escalade. West is playing a barely fictional version of himself. Comedians sit next to him and behind him in the SUV limo, including Kym Whitley, Wyatt Cenac and JB Smoove, playing members of West’s entourage in a 2007 TV pilot for HBO …
