The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Both of New York City’s major outlets for sketch and improv comedy announced new house teams for the 2012 calendar year. Nate Dern, the Upright Citizen Brigade Theater’s New York artistic director, said he received more than 400 audition submissions from actors and 160 writing packets for the UCB’s weekly …
San Francisco’s annual SF Sketchfest books so many uniquely special comedy shows over so many consecutive nights, I’m not sure why every comedy fan doesn’t just decide to live in San Francisco for the first month of every year. Proving that again is the lineup, announced today, for the 11th …
Seth MacFarlane is up for two Grammy Awards, but only one of them is for something funny. Steve Martin’s banjo found honors. And the South Park fellas are getting closer to EGOT status. What else is new? How about these comedians among the nominees for the 54th Grammy Awards, to …
Patrice Oneal, who suffered a stroke in October, has died. He was 41. Oneal was one of the funniest comedians anyone has known in recent years, although his propensity for telling the truth often burned bridges within the community. He recently appeared on Comedy Central’s Roast of Charlie Sheen. Hopefully …
Think the folks at Dunder-Mifflin have it tough enough in Scranton? What if more and more offices went paperless? That’s actually a thing. But instead of viewing clips from The Office, take a look at these “Really Really Short Films” for Domtar. Learn more at Paper Because. First they go …
In an odd scheduling move, both the New York’s Funniest competition and the Boston Comedy Festival competition held their finals on the same evening last night. Of course, there could only be two winners, then. No chance of someone sweeping the double this year. In New York, where the contest …
In case you thought Dave Chappelle was the only big-time comedian finding a lifestyle in rural Ohio, then you haven’t been keeping up with what Drew Hastings has been up to in Hillsboro. Hastings not only moved to the rural town of 6,600 outside of Cincinnati several years ago, but …
Boston used to have two daily newspapers that each had a weekly comedy column, covering the local scene, interviewing touring comedians and reviewing shows and performers. But that was, well, so five years ago. That’s where I first started blogging about comedy in addition to covering it in print alongside …
In a just world, the Comedy Gods weed out the no-talent hacks and leave the true voices to prosper. Alas, alack, we do not always live in a just world. And so it is that the Comedy Gods are wreaking havoc on another of our true voices: Patrice O’Neal. Many …
If you’ve seen Heineken’s ad, “The Date,” then you see some fairly amazing things happen in one trip through a restaurant. But take a look at this: It’s actor Guillaume Dolmans, walking you through some behind-the-scenes magic, where he pulls off even more crazy stunts. Roll the clip! Thanks …
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