The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For his 14th and final conventional studio album, “Mandatory Fun,” Weird Al Yankovic teamed up with fun and funny websites to produce eight music videos, and is releasing them one per day. As Yankovic told NPR’s Weekend Edition, “I wanted to really do what is ostensibly my last album with …
This is different. Comedy Central has released a YouTube video of Marc Maron’s latest stand-up record, “Thinky Pain,” as a record. You can hear Maron talk about his life, career and thoughts while watching his record spin on a turntable. And yes. They flip the record. Enjoy! Here’s a link …
One step backward, two bunny hops forward. That’s the Good Friday spin on the cancellation that’s actually a promotion for FOX’s Animation Domination High-Def programming. FOX executives have confirmed that the late-night Saturday block of animated shorts will stop airing new episodes after June 28. Come June 2015, however, ADHD …
Ted Alexandro released his new 69-minute video stand-up comedy special, “I Did It,” today on his website, tedalexandro.com. Other comedians have self-released their stand-up sets before, and as Alexandro noted in a message he sent out to fans and friends last night, he clearly was inspired by acts such as …
Michael Cera’s efforts with JASH have paid off, as the short film he starred in, Janicza Bravo’s Gregory Go Boom, won a jury award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The 17-minute short, which debuted on JASH’s YouTube channel in May 2013 during YouTube Comedy Week, stars Cera as a paraplegic …
What happens when Arsenio Hall welcomes not just an impersonator of himself, but himself in the past? Well, that happened last night when Paul Scheer appeared on Arsenio as “ArScheerio Paul,” the character he inhabited for a webseries re-enacting classic moments from the 1990s version of Hall’s late-night talk show. …
Talk about your NOT ready for primetime players… Nyima Funk, a Second City alum who has appeared on TV in Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Key & Peele, and Wild ‘N Out, but her improv and sketch comedy skills obviously aren’t ready for Saturday Night Live. Am I right, Kenan …
“I’m in a suit! This is big time for me!” That’s how Sean Donnelly opened his network TV debut last night on Late Show with David Letterman. Just a month ago, Donnelly was one of the New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival. Of course, two other New …
Kain Carter has 619,615 subscribers to his YouTube channel, which he titled “hotdamnirock.” For much of the past year, however, what Carter was rocking in his vlogs were monologues ripped verbatim from the mouth of late stand-up comedian Patrice O’Neal. Carter acknowledged this only after being called out on his …
JC Shakespeare is one of a few young comedians who appeared in an infomercial about college loans in 1990, and 23 years later, he uploaded the video to YouTube today. Shakespeare writes in the description: “This was my first paid gig as an actor, and perhaps it was for Patton …
