The Definitive Guide to Comedy
That headline seems so salacious, doesn't it? Why wouldn't the Streamy Awards let you see this video by The Fine Bros. revealing the secrets to earning a Streamy nomination? Oh, that's right. It's because the awards ceremony buckled under the strain of technology and froze the video before it ended. …
Each year, Paul Scheer presides over one of the most raucous, madcap moments in comedy as host of the improvised Match Game parody that happens in the wee hours during the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater's Del Close Marathon. Did that prepare Scheer for the mess that was last night's Streamy …
The April Fool's Day announcement that the Lakeshore Theater in Chicago undoubtedly caught a lot of people by surprise. My only experience with the Lakeshore happened last June when I attended the Just For Laughs Chicago festival — the theater boasted not only some of the best and most eclectic …
There are too many people who are so fragmented about their lives, not just "red state" "blue state" stuff, but with our contemporary society making it so easy for you to fragment, compartmentalize and otherwise isolate everything you digest in your daily life. That's sadly just as true for comedy, …
Everything old is new again, as history and trends repeat themselves with this "new" fad called 3-D movies. Remember when this happened in the 1950s? Of course you don't. You're on the Internet, which means you're so young, you don't even remember the 1980s. But Avatar taught Hollywood that if …
In case you missed it, for April Fool's Day, Martha Stewart's daytime chat show included plenty of pranks, and to make sure some of the humor was, well, actually humorous, she invited The Onion's Joe Garden and Carol Kolb to set up a fake anchor desk in her studio. Of …
On "The Early Show" this morning on CBS, Harry Smith moderated the show's weekly roundup to make jokes about current pop culture events. His guests: Mo Rocca, Iliza Shlesinger and Kevin Hart. Smith paused before saying Iliza's last name, then got Hart's name right without pause. But the CBS graphics …
Remember the old days when you tried your darnedest to impress college campus social directors at conferences such as NACA, then hit the road for a series of well-paid one-nighters? Well, those days are still here. But more and more, the big corporate brands are doing their own thing. I've …
Earlier this week, the dueling 64-comedian "March Madness" (Comix) and "Final Four" (Carolines) competitions came to an end, with Sam Morril earning the $500 prize and gigs from Comix, while Nate Bargatze won the similar prize at Carolines (plus an extra gig during this fall's New York Comedy Festival). How …
There are multiple online services that offer to monitor your online traffic and break down your audience's demographics. Out of curiosity today, I looked at some of these sites. This paragraph from Alexa stopped me in my tracks. Either this is an April Fool's joke on me, or I need …