The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Hey comedy fans, if you were up late last night, as I was, you may have seen me on your TV screens attempting to say a witty thing or two about current events on the late-night news-talk-infotainment program, Red Eye, on the FOX News Channel. (Spoiler alert: It was me) …
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 Skyving and Steve White. They join the first week winners (Tyler Boeh, Brent Weinbach, Murv Seymour, Jose Sarduy and Dax Jordan) in the six nights …
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 to be, well, stubborn? The funniest people sometimes have to wait years for official Emmy recognition, but once they do, they get rewarded over and …
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 1987? And yet such low-brow Yiddish wit as "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" ran rampant through junior-high and high schools, as …
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 write and research, perhaps I should be watching this, too, since it asks that essential age-old old-age question: What is comedy?
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 connection with the audience," he says. "She looks like she’s having a lot of fun, and it’s contagious. It’s going to be hard for one …
Before Tim Reid was Venus Flytrap on WKRP on Cincinnati, and before Tom Dreesen was warming up audiences for Frank Sinatra, Tim & Tom were perhaps the first "and sadly the last" black-and-white comedy team in the early 1970s, as Dreesen told the Chicago Tribune. (via Shecky) The Trib’s story …
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 your comedians for the coming week in and around Northern California: Week Two competitors: Jen Adams, New York; Shannon Gettins, Los Angeles; Andy Haynes, New …
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 quote: The issue made me sick. The majority of the people in it are, for the most part, the worst sort of comedy whores, and …
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 you how to decipher the formula of converting tragedy into comedy over time. If only he’d have someone check for typos. That’s the real tragedy …