The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Now that March Madness is far enough behind us, Rooftop Comedy has released a new set of brackets for college kids of the comedian variety for the 32 teams represented in the National College Comedy Competition. All of the student contestants will have three-minute stand-up videos online at TBS.com for …
Writing comedy on Twitter carries with it some of the same perils of performing comedy in front of a live audience: The notion that the audience may have heard it all before, either through parallel thinking (or if you dared to steal the joke outright), that the material is hack, …
This just in! The Just For Laughs Festival announced that British Columbia native Pamela Anderson, currently starring this spring on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, will host her own Just For Laughs televised Gala at the Montreal festival on July 15, and her dance partner Damian Whitewood will be there, …
You may have wondered over the weekend what exactly happened with the NBC sitcom pilot Beach Lane. You knew it starred Matthew Broderick as a celebrity author who gets hired by an eccentric and irresponsible millionaire to run his newspaper in the Hamptons, and last week, you thought that millionaire …
Is there any crossover between Aziz Ansari's fan base and that of Ellen DeGeneres? Would you be surprised that I'm even asking that question? Either way, Ansari sat down for a chat with Ellen that airs today (4 p.m. in NYC, check your local listings), and she recognized just how …
I hear we have Rich Fulcher to thank for this. Thanks, Rich! It's some of the most famous paintings and drawings by the old masters, from Mona Lisa to Whistler's Mother and more, enhanced and revealed anew thanks to 3-D technology. Just wow. Roll the clip!
Some comedians are more than eager to work their well-honed routines into interviews when they go on late-night TV. Chris Rock is a piece of work, though, because he hits the clubs for a solid couple of weeks before he hits the promotional circuit to write and develop new material …
The live North American tour for Conan O'Brien and company debuted last night in Eugene, Ore., and both press and fans were there in force to document and spoiler alert the whole thing! So if you have tickets to an upcoming show, or don't have tickets, do you want to …
We still don't know exactly why Megan Mullally quit the Broadway revival of "Lips Together, Teeth Apart," which was supposed to provide Patton Oswalt with his debut on the Great White Way over the weekend — but we do know that Oswalt has reason to stick around New York City …
Big day for Conan O'Brien, his workers and his fans on Team Coco. By now we all know that TBS outfoxed FOX and snagged Conan to what's widely being reported as a five-year deal to air Monday-Thursday at 11 p.m. (with Conan owning the show), broadcast from Los Angeles and …