The Definitive Guide to Comedy
So about that guy who threw a shaving cream pie at the face of News Corp. overlord Rupert Murdoch during his live globally-televised testimony before British Parliament. We all quickly learned that Jonnie Marbles was a comedian, who even made a quip about his act on Twitter @jonniemarbles moments beforehand: …
Yesterday, a website asked if Zachary Levi (NBC’s Chuck) had taken a bit from stand-up comedian Demetri Martin. Clearly, Levi, appearing several months ago on the Dec. 23, 2010, episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, got his first big laugh with a line that’s strikingly similar to a …
What a relief that GQ’s 2011 Comedy Issue also managed to put a male comedian in a bathing suit! Well, it is Ken Jeong. And the magazine wants us to believe that he is photobombing this shoot with model Kate Upton. Except isn’t the whole point of a photobomb that …
Funny or Die is getting into the comedy podcasting business, and they’ve picked one of their most popular video producers to help them do it. Earwolf broke the news of its deal with FoD tonight. As of September 2011, Earwolf will become the exclusive sole provider and producer of Funny …
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival, now in its fourth year, is unlike any other comedy festival. Intended to be a joke on the notion of comedy fests, it has nevertheless become a Brooklyn institution now, and as Mirman and his co-conspirators Julie Smith and Caroline Creaghead note, it has managed …
IFC has filmed a new round of interstitial bits with Scott Aukerman for IFC’s Comedy Death-Ray, and in this little bit, Aukerman asks his friend and colleague in comedy — Zach Galifianakis — about his experiences in high school. Because they’re supposedly in an ad break during an episode of …
Paul Rudd graced the cover of GQ’s August 2010 magazine for its annual Comedy Issue. Remember that? Take a look in case you forgot. OK. Now look at the August 2011 cover of GQ. That’s Mila Kunis. Notice anything different? Well, not really different, considering GQ is a men’s magazine, …
Looks like the one-night pairing of Nick DiPaolo and Artie Lange on FOX Sports Radio was enough of a success that the duo is looking to make it a full-time deal. TMZ.com caught up with Lange and DiPaolo yesterday and asked what’s up. TMZ says the duo is in talks …
John Ramsey has enjoyed success as a comedian in America, among his credits having reached the late, great HBO U.S. Comedy Arts festival in Aspen and performing on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham. But for the past year, Ramsey has served as a volunteer in Kenya. Not so funny, right? …
Earlier today, Margaret Cho kicked off a 72-hour “pay what you want” sale of her Grammy-nominated album, Cho Dependent, that includes two unreleased songs of hers, with 20 percent of the proceeds donated to Immediate Justice, a charity devoted to empowering young women and gay people of color. The 72-hour …