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2008 SF Comedy Competition: Week two winners
Advancing from the second half of the preliminary round in the 2008 San Francisco Comedy Competition (via SFstandup.com): Moshe Kasher, Derick Lengwenus, Jacob Sirof, Leif …
Preview: 60th Primetime Emmy Awards (Comedy)
The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards get handed out on Sunday evening (broadcast on the ABC television network), and in the comedy categories, he academy tends …
A very Spaceballs Sunday
When Mel Brooks introduced Spaceballs to his film canon in 1987, viewers and critics most likely did a double-take. A parody of Star Wars? In …
Animated video: What is comedy?
Here is a fanciful animated short video to keep you company while I prepare another day of comedy news and analysis for you. As I …
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Amy Poehler talks to USA Today today about her imminent departure from SNL. Seth Meyers says replacing Poehler won’t be easy: "She has a real …
Tim & Tom: Comedy’s black-and-white team
Before Tim Reid was Venus Flytrap on WKRP on Cincinnati, and before Tom Dreesen was warming up audiences for Frank Sinatra, Tim & Tom were …
2008 SF Comedy Competition (Week Two)
On the Left Coast, the second week of the 2008 San Francisco Comedy Competition’s preliminaries begins tonight. Follow along here, and here. And here are …
Who is the anonymous comedian criticizing Rolling Stone’s comedy issue?
Rolling Stone just published online a letter the magazine received from a comedian who appears in the current comedy issue, "What’s So Funny?" And we …
Tragedy + Time = Comedy (flow chart)
Did you like that earlier flow chart attempting to explain all of comedy? Then perhaps you will like Doogie’s latest venture, in which he shows …