The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Rooftop Comedy announced its slate of nominees for its annual awards, to be handed out the week of June 14 at the site's Aspen Comedy Festival. And I got one! No, that's not why I'm writing this. Especially since I doubt I'll win seeing as I don't have a longstanding …
Here's one fool-proof way to figure out if your career is hot: If you have more movie deals than most of the nominees when you host the MTV Movie Awards ceremony, then you win! That's you, Aziz Ansari. Ansari already sold three movie pitches to Judd Apatow, but that didn't …
Denis Leary and his band The Enablers (featuring The Rehab Horns) have released a new single in advance of their Rescue Me Comedy Tour 2, which kicks off May 22 in Atlantic City. Guess what? He's still an a$$hole! The song, "F.U.", has Leary telling you off in no uncertain …
Comedian W. Kamau Bell has been using PowerPoint presentations and brutally honest, cutting satire to show Americans for the past three years how we're racist now, and what we can do to end it in, oh, about an hour, with his one-man show, "The W. Kamau Bell Curve." Bell brings the …
The folks at The TV Addict did a little Internet sleuthing and found that NBC apparently signed up for Twitter feeds for some, but not all, of its pilots that are hoping for slots on the network's 2010 fall and midseason schedule. NBC's official "upfront" is not until May 17. …
When the weather gets nice like this, even us old kids can feel like young kids and remember sunny school days when we asked the teacher, "Can we have class outside today?" In New York City, a few comedy bookers hear you and are doing just that again this summer. …
When I saw the TV footage from a very flooded Nashville, Tenn., earlier this week, I sent an email to the staff at Zanies comedy club and found out they remained fairly high and dry. Or at least not flooded, which is a better fate than what's befallen the Grand …
It's the Fifth of May, which is supposed to celebrate Mexico's improbable war victory over the French in 1862 (when the French still had a good reputation for war), but a lot of people think it's about drinking cheap Mexican beer and tequila. And with Arizona cracking down on Mexican …
The just-completed 2010 Tribeca Film Festival included stand-up comedian Ahmed Ahmed's documentary, Just Like Us, which took American comedy to the Middle East to show how Arabs have a sense of humor, too. I talked to Ahmed and you can see our chat here about breaking down the walls and stereotypes …
Someone told me the other day that Portland's Bridgetown Comedy Festival was so much fun, he wondered why more cities don't also have their own fests so we can do this year-round across the country? Well, we're closer to that point than he thinks. In fact, we have times during …