The full schedule for the 2011 TBS Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival
by TBS and Just For Laughs have unveiled the complete schedule now for their third comedy festival collaboration in Chicago. So much going on. Check it! …
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Remembering Mike DeStefano for this year’s AIDS Walk in NYC
A note from PJ Landers…(reprinted from his Facebook with his permission) Hey Everyone, I wanted to fill you in on the AIDS Walk in NY …
UPDATE: FOX 5 shames former Comix manager into repaying charity that had been stiffed after fund-raiser
A day after FOX 5 aired this "Shame, Shame, Shame" investigation that showed how former Comix manager Michael Palitz had stiffed a charity out of …
Zach Galifianakis drops by the set; life (MSNBC) imitates art (SNL Digital Short)
When Zach Galifianakis first hosted Saturday Night Live last season, he starred in a digital short called "Zach Drops By The Set" that featured unexpected …
Andy Ritchie wins Funniest Person in Austin 2011
Congrats to Andy Ritchie, who outlasted and outpolled the field in last night's finale of the six-week Funniest Person in Austin contest for 2011. Ritchie, …
WTF with Marc Maron repurposed as a best-of collection for public radio
In case you missed it yesterday, Jesse Thorn from The Sound of Young America revealed that he'd been working for months to get WTF with …
Mark Your Calendars: “Everyone’s a Comedian” panel, June 8, 2011, at Internet Week New York
My panel at SXSW Interactive 2011 on social media and comedy was so much fun ("F**k Yeah!"), that when The Comedy Store's Alf LaMont told …
Sketchfest NYC announces full schedule for 2011
I'd already told you about the headlining acts for the 7th annual coming in June. Among them: A panel with The Whitest Kids U Know, …
Funny or Die CEO Dick Glover on implementing social media to help grow traffic and control comments
Here's something you haven't seen before. Funny or Die's CEO, Dick Glover, on film. Talking about the site and how FoD has adapted to social …
Elaine May to host first-ever public screening of her director’s cut of Ishtar, talk about it at 92Y
It's fair to say that few people aside from movie critics have seen the 1987 film, Ishtar, despite boasting a celebrated comedy icon in the …