The Definitive Guide to Comedy
All this week, seven newspaper sites have been offering a trial run of online animated videos called "Beyond The Comics," created by former Saturday Night Live head writer Fred Wolf and starring the voices of several former SNLers, including David Spade, Jack Handey, Tim Meadows, Sarah Silverman, Dana Carvey, Colin Quinn, …
As part of the promotional push for the new film Grown Ups, David Spade and Chris Rock visited Howard Stern's satellite radio program. That's fairly predictable, right? As is the probability that Stern would get Spade and Rock to dish on who's got beefs with whom. This audio clip opens …
Time to catch up on what else people are saying online about comedy! The Canadian Comedy Awards announced their 2010 nominees today. Up for the big prize of comedy person of the year: Brent Butt, Colin Mochrie, Irwin Barker, Russell Peters and Seth Rogen. Check out the full list of …
Just For Laughs has announced it'll honor The Second City with a lifetime achievement award and Glee with its comedy writers of the year award when JFL convenes in Montreal next month. The festival also has created two additional awards to recognize the star power of comedians Aziz Ansari and …
Chicago sports fans at the first of two sold-out "Da Bears" shows Saturday night at Just For Laughs Chicago were treated not only to a roast of former Bears coach Mike Ditka, but also saw Robert Smigel and the rest of the famous Saturday Night Live "Superfans" auction off a …
CBS Sunday Morning got Louis CK to contribute a short message about parenting for Father's Day today, and it's worth watching, regardless of whether you currently have kids yourself. Happy Father's Day! Louie debuts June 29 on FX.
Comedian/actor T.J. Miller came back to Chicago this week and brought some of his Windy City comedy friends back with him for a stand-up show billed as "Drinking Buddies," and the buddies certainly believed the drinking part was mandatory for the evening, in back-to-back shows that went well into Wednesday …
Remember all the way back to a year ago, when Funny People hadn't yet come out, but Aziz Ansari already was generating buzz for his caricature of a stand-up comedian called Raaaaaaaandy ("that's Randy with eight A's")? Fast-forward back to now, and Ansari — who just hosted the MTV Movie …
Johnny Carson's hometown of Norfolk, Neb., is playing host this weekend to the third annual Great American Comedy Festival, where Ed Asner will be honored on Saturday with a "Comedy Legend" award. The fest is put together by comedian Eddie Brill, the comedy booker and warm-up act for Late Show …
When is a gala more than a Gala? How about when it's Steve Martin making his Just For Laughs Montreal debut? That's happening this July, as the festival has tapped Martin to host what it's dubbing as its first Best Night Ever Show. Martin will host two shows on Saturday, …