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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! Tickets for the newly announced shows go on sale Saturday.
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 we did in honor of comic Mike DeStefano. If you were planning on going to the walk and set your alarm at 630am like most …
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 $7,400 it had raised at a fund-raiser at the now-closed comedy club, Palitz wanted to make amends. In this update that aired tonight, Palitz confessed: …
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 cameos by the comedian on various TV shows. The first scene has him wheeling around in a chair behind Brian Williams during a news update. …
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, who was a "new face" in Montreal's Just For Laughs festival in 2009, also has a new stand-up comedy CD out this week called "King …
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 Marc Maron on public radio, too, and that his project (with Thorn's editor, Nick White) was a success! They culled through Maron's many episodes and, …
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 me about Internet Week New York, it took me no time at all to say, let's do it again! But different. So. Please. Come and …
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, record-setting efforts for the URDB, Channel 101, and Marvel Comics' "What The" series. Now they've unveiled the full lineup, happening June 8-11, 2011, at the …
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 media by adding buttons atop each video to encourage viewers to share their vids through Reddit, StumbleUpon and the usual suspects of Tumblr, Twitter and …
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 director's chair in Elaine May, and a bonafide A-list duo of Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman in the lead roles as a singing duo deployed …