The BBC considered Jimmy Carr’s speeding ticket an actual news item?
by I don't normally write about legal and personal issues for comedians, because they often have nothing to do with actual comedy, and sometimes turn out …
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Enter IFC’s sketch comedy contest, win and meet Monty Python
There's still a couple of days left to enter IFC's Sketch Comedy Challenge. The deadline is Sept. 20. The winner not only gets to see …
Danny DeVito is on Twitter, and he told me so
On behalf of my friends at Comedy.com, I attended the red carpet event for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia last night at NYC's Beacon Theatre. …
Comedy Central brings back the American Comedy Awards
This is really happening, people. Comedy Central announced today that it had agreed to restart the American Comedy Awards, which had run from the 1980s …
Ready for the 2009 Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival?
The only comedy festival that's aware enough of itself to pretend to be fake, and yet still assemble a funny cast of comedians for multiple …
Do you have your tickets to the Bentzen Ball? Tig Notaro curates a D.C. comedy fest in October
Comedian Tig Notaro and Brightest Young Things announced a brand-new comedy festival coming to Washington, D.C., in October, and their Bentzen Ball sold more than …
Jim Norton’s “Uninvited Guest” for Jay Leno
Incremental progress, they say, is always a good thing. And so it was on Tuesday night that the second episode of The Jay Leno Show …
2009 San Francisco Comedy Competition, joined in progress
Would you believe the 2009 San Francisco Comedy Competition is already gearing up for its second week of preliminary stand-up action? Well, if you live …
New York Comedy Festival will hand out a People’s Choice Award? Yes, and more
The 2009 New York Comedy Festival has announced a partnership with the People's Choice Awards that will result in the winner of "New York's Funniest …
Epic fail?! New York Times “interviews” Seth MacFarlane
Lord knows I have been tough on Seth MacFarlane for some of his recent machinations around his animated sitcom Family Guy, but even I know how …