January 12, 2015
January 11, 2015
It's Golden Globes day! It's Golden Globes day! The country is only 24 hours away from talking about who won, who lost, who looked really drunk and who did hosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler destroy in their monologue? The 72nd annual Golden Globes Awards presented by the Hollywood Foreign Press will be given out tonight on NBC. Here's a preview on what to look for in movie and television comedy tonight.
January 9, 2015
The Golden Globes are Sunday night and Tina Fey says nothing or no one is off limits and that includes Bill Cosby.
January 8, 2015
Bob Geldof once asked us, “Where is the filtered excellence!?” It’s right here. Here are this weeks picks of the best things to watch, the most interesting things to do, great things to try, the best picks to read, our favorite things to listen to and more
January 8, 2015
Last night Nick Kroll went on Kimmel to talk about the final season of The Kroll Show. It's hard to believe that at the height of the show's popularity and only three seasons in, that the guys would call it quits.
January 7, 2015
The country's oldest undergrad drama troupe has given its annual highest honor to Amy Poehler.
January 7, 2015
The Golden Globe Awards are this Sunday, January 11th and NBC has announced a parade of presenters for the ceremony.
January 6, 2015
As 2014 came to a close, we also celebrated our first anniversary as a website devoted to the business of comedy, so we had double the reason to celebrate the year in comedy.
January 6, 2015
Last Summer, it was announced that a prequel mini-series to the 2001 comedy "Wet Hot American Summer" might be in the works at Netflix.
January 5, 2015
Jeffrey Gurian is a writer and comedian in New York who loves to Jump Around. Follow his regular column, right here, to find out what’s happening in comedy, and who Jeffrey Gurian ran into this week in and around New York. After missing two weeks to make some room for year end specials, this week, Jeffrey found out what's new with Janeane Garofalo, what Artie Lange has planned for his first podcast, the story behind Greer Barnes' new CD and a full report from the Metropolitan Club's 60 hour world record breaking show marathon.
December 29, 2014
Our picks for the ten greatest comedy movies of 2014 are all over the map. There is a blockbuster, and bunch of indie films among our picks, and we chose several films that you might argue aren't actually comedies. But we stand by the notion that often the best comedies are films that are dark, or mixed genre, so we didn't get details like that get in our way of picking some great films that skirted the edges of being pure comedies. Let us know what your favorite comedy of the year was this year by voting or leaving us a comment.
December 29, 2014
Any time you try to make a list of the "top" anything, it's always a little bit subjective, due to the point of view of the writer. With the understanding that it's not an exact science, and really just an opinion, I will give you my top 15 comedy events list of 2014, of all the events that I covered during the year. Some of the events I was involved with in some way, but most of them not! I tried to be as impartial as I could.
December 24, 2014
In 2014, so many comedians had gigantic years. Not everyone looks to cross over to mainstream, but for many comedians, its the end game goal. This […]
December 22, 2014
As our celebration of the best comedy in 2014 continues, we are looking at the best comedy albums released this year. There were many strong contenders this year, and we picked ten favorites. Albums by Sarah Silverman, Big Jay Oakerson, Chris Gethard, Mark Normand, Cameron Esposito, Tommy Johnagin, Joe Mande, Nick Thune, Mike Vecchione, and Weird Al Yankovic topped our list for the funniest albums of 2014. We picked our top ten but we need you to vote for who had the #1 comedy special in 2014.
December 21, 2014
It was 2014. The Greatest Year in Comedy since the Beginning of Comedy had great stand up, great movies, great shows, and it also had great books. These ten comedians wrote ten books while they were killing it in their respective comedy arenas. And now we need you to vote, on who had the #1 book. Jim Gaffigan, Amy Poehler, Joan Rivers, Andrew Dice Clay, Russell Brand, Carol Leifer, Todd Glass, Megan Amram, John Cleese, or Marin Short.
December 16, 2014
Ricky Gervais is throwing down a challenge to this year's Golden Globe hosts, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
December 15, 2014
December 12, 2014
This is happening. Ari Shaffir is joining the Comedy Central line up with This Is Not Happening, based on his live show.
December 11, 2014
Ho Ho Ho!!! It's almost Christmas, Hannukah and other assorted gift giving holidays. Is there any better gift than the gift of laughter? Support your favorite comedians while making your friends incredibly happy with the greatest gift in the world. Here are some new releases that will make great gifts in 2014. You don't have to leave your chair, just click a few links, and your holiday shopping is done. Don't be a cheapskate! But a few! You need the friends. Just click on the link in each listing to purchase and you'll be done in minutes.
December 11, 2014
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler are returning as host of the Golden Globes on Sunday, January 11th.
December 10, 2014
The nominations for the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Award were announced on Wednesday.
December 2, 2014
PubLIZity broke big news today. The upcoming season The Kroll Show will be the third and final season of the show. The critically-acclaimed sketch series was the source of the world's greatest comedy sketch--Too Much Tuna. Season Three premiers on Tuesday January 13 at 10:30pm.
December 2, 2014
It's the last season of "Parks and Rec" and NBC is moving them to Tuesdays and burning two shows a night for seven weeks.
November 29, 2014
The team the world wishes could host every awards show, including little league trophy presentations, is back promoting the 2015 Golden Globes.
November 22, 2014
Comedian and writer Megan Amram is a writer for NBC's "Parks and Recreation" and Comedy Central's "Kroll Show". She was named one of Rolling Stone's "25 Funniest People on Twitter" and Forbes Magazine listed Amram on their "30 Under 30 List." Amram has a brand new book out, "Science...For Her!" described as a "politically, scientifically, and anatomically incorrect “textbook” for female self-improvement. Karen Geier sat down with Megan to talk about the new book.
November 19, 2014
November 12, 2014
Last night Aubrey Plaza talked about the ending of Parks and Recreation on Kimmel. They only have three episodes left to shoot, and everyone is kind of bummed.