The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 2010 New York Comedy Festival won't be updating its website until Tuesday morning, but tickets will go on sale Wednesday for several of its headlining shows, which the festival announced tonight on its Facebook Fan page. You can figure out the headliners from my headline. Louis CK already had …
The kids at UCB Comedy are rather good about turning around video, because as the sun rose on Sunday, they had highlighted footage from scenes that happened only a few hours earlier at the 12th edition of the Del Close Marathon. Blink and you'll see and/or miss last night's UCB …
If I had been hip to BBC America back in 2005, or lived in the U.K. in 2002, then I would have known long and well about the wonderment that was Look Around You, the spoof on science and educational videos presented by Peter Serafinowicz and Robert Popper. The first …
Drew Carey hosts The Price is Right, not The Biggest Loser, but sometime between taping his game show and Tweeting about the World Cup, the comedian improvised a weight-loss plan of basic diet and exercise to drop upward of 80 pounds. Carey, 52, told People magazine that he cut the …
Mike Birbiglia will perform stories from his off-Broadway production of "Sleepwalk With Me" as part of a special run next week to raise money for The Nature Conservancy and its efforts to clean up after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Tickets cost $20. Other details? Check …
The recent Bill Simmons mailbag came to my attention last night, and I couldn't stop thinking about it for a couple of reasons. Simmons fielded a reader question about who he'd pick as the "funniest man alive" and says that he "spent way too much time thinking about this," and …
Louis CK's stand-up concert film, Hilarious, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, will make its TV debut first on cable and satellite via EPIX this September, followed by a 2011 run and DVD release through Comedy Central. As Louis CK told me in our most recent interview, …
Just in time to whet your appetite between Comic-Cons, the Sundance Channel presents a series of online short films called "Strokes of Genius" dedicated to two of the influential cartoonists from MAD Magazine — Al Jaffee and Sergio Aragones. Steve Brodner celebrates their life and work in these shorts, sitting …
Perhaps you have seen some of the legendary names of comedians on the wall outside of The Comedy Store along West Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. For the first time in nearly eight years, the comedy club has added to the list of names. The celebration, known as Names Night, happens tonight at …
Want to know who came out of Montreal with a deal? The young ladies of Adept Entertainment, that's who, as the talent management firm started just last year by Abbey Robertson and Melody Hammer officially became a part of The Collective late today. The deal actually was in place by …