The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central has had a presence at previous editions of Comic-Con, the annual convention of comic fans in San Diego, but this summer, the cable network appears to be doing more to entertain you freaks and geeks. On Saturday, July 24, 2010, Comedy Central presents a free show at the …
Interesting to see so many of the people I follow on Twitter and other blogs yesterday bemoaning the decision by Starz to pull the plug on its comedy Party Down after two seasons, when the ratings and the reality clearly didn't warrant a third season. I've seen numbers indicating that …
Just when you were feeling good about how your comedy career was progressing, here's a reminder that you probably didn't record your second stand-up comedy CD before you turned 20. Bo Burnham — the teen who became a musical comedy star thanks to the YouTube and recorded his first Comedy …
Louis CK told me last week that he decided it was more than OK to use the stand-up he had been delivering to audiences over the past year and incorporate it into his new FX comedy, Louie. He hadn't filmed it yet for a DVD, so he said: "Then what, …
In its announcement today, Seattle's Labor Day weekend Bumbershoot festival boasted that it has offered comedy alongside its music stages for many of its 40 years — far longer than all of these newer, popular upstarts. Kids, right? Anyhow. What about the kids who'll be performing for you kids in …
Although Forbes only categorizes four performers on its 2010 edition of "The Celebrity 100" as comedians, the magazine actually counts 13 comedians on its list of famous people ranked by wealth and power. Ellen DeGeneres, with $35 million in earnings from her daytime TV show, endorsements and more, was the …
Todd Glass is doing stand-up tonight on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and when I went searching to see if it's a repeat or not, I saw this short clip of Glass performing at the Acme Comedy Co. in Minneapolis, wherein Glass impersonates the late Rodney Dangerfield doing jokes from the late …
On today's new edition of Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Maron sits down with Dane Cook — and Cook apparently has video footage of this, which may or may not see daylight, too — you get to hear Maron be an asshole while accusing Cook of being an asshole. It makes …
If you think watching stand-up comedians compete for money is something, then what's it like watching improv groups compete for big cash money? Well, let me tell you: It's very intriguing! Some groups really rose to the challenge over the weekend in the inaugural Friars Club Improv + Sketch Competition, …
Some things you want to unhear but you just cannot, and such is the case with the relentless vuvuzela horn-blasting during the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Some things you want to unsee and unhear, but when Opie from Opie and Anthony has his video camera out, and …