For YouTube's comedy week, Dane Boe created this music video 'We Didn't Star the Viral' (riffing off Billy Joel's We Didn't Star the Fire) that recaps pretty much all the viral videos that became infamous on YouTube over the last 8 years. Show More Summary
Noted comedy misogynist/part-time cross-dresser Jerry Lewis reiterated his distaste for women comedians at a press conference at the Cannes Film Festival today. Here is the AP's recap: Read more...
The last piece has fallen into NBC’s comedy puzzle, with the network canceling Ryan Murphy’s freshman comedy The New Normal. To recap, of all current NBC comedy series, only two, Parks & Recreation and Community, made it to next season as the network is betting heaving on its half-hour pilots.
The advantage of going with a host like Zach Galifianakis, with his strong comedy background, is that you don't have to be quite so bulletproof with your concepts or your scripting. What we saw last night were a lot of loose concepts that stayed on the right side of funny ... More »
IFC’s Maron is going to be one of those shows that gets called unique a lot in its early weeks. Marc Maron’s longstanding project — whether in his comedy, his stellar WTF podcast, or his memoirs — has always been to showcase his psyche in as painfully accurate a way
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At one point during NBC’s much-publicized nadir in February, nothing on the network beat The Talking Dead—Chris Hardwick’s chat-show recap of The Walking Dead (which itself trounced shows on every network)—another humiliation for a network that’s grown accustomed to them. Show More Summary
On Tuesday evening, The Academy hosted a 21st anniversary reunion screening of Wayne's World, the "Saturday Night Live"-inspired comedy movie from 1992, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Paramount provided a new print of...Show More Summary
Some of the first words in the first episode of Mad Men’s sixth season are a quote from The Inferno, the first part of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy: “Midway through our life’s journey I went astray from the straight road and awoke to find myself alone in a dark
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When all’s said and done — meaning, on our final days of Earth, pondering what it all meant and ranking the best episodes of sketch comedy shows — last night’s Melissa McCarthy-hosted episode of SNL will go down as one of the season’s best. Show More Summary
In "Chicago," "New Girl" brought us a comedy about death. The show did so beautifully and with as many laughs as we could have wanted. Get the details in this recap.
Where's the director? Who the hell is Benedict Cumberbatch playing!? HOW DID InAPPropriate COMEDY GET MADE!?????
These are the big movie questions of the week. Here's a recap of all the week's biggest movie news, trailers, and premieres, via our friends at Movie Fanatic.
The Week's Biggest Trailers:
This week, we had a couple of major trailers drop. Show More Summary
As everyone who has been participating in our Thursday night comedy recaps on the internet can attest, it’s been a divisive fourth season of Community thus far. We watch and we laugh because it’s still superior to just about everything else on network television, but it feels…different. Show More Summary
What does Jess see in Nick? The obvious answer: He's a good-looking character in an ensemble comedy, she's a good-looking character in an ensemble comedy, and forces as old as Sam and Diane are compelling them to pair off. But in the world of the show, why Nick? Why not
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That was a rough ride, "Girls" fans, but if the last 30 minutes of Season 2 are any indication, things may just be looking up for the the fictional Brooklynites we know and love... or maybe love to hate.
That was a rough ride, "Girls" fans, but if the last 30 minutes of Season 2 are any indication, things may just be looking up for the the fictional Brooklynites we know and love... or maybe love to hate.
Accused by some of whitewashing Brooklyn and beloved by others for depicting the harsh truth of post-college New York life for over-educated women in their 20s, Girls may well be TV’s most talked-about comedy. Considering that most of...Show More Summary
In today's SXSW recap we update you about Drunk History coming to comedy central, James Franco's festival film Maladies, and all the must see music acts happening in Austin.
Persephoneers, put a match to your pilot light, because we’re gonna have a roast up in here! Sadly, I cannot transmit any hot beef over the interwebs, so you’ll have to be content with our favorite queens roasting Ru and the judges on this episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race! One note for these recaps: pronouns. When a contestant (or judge)...
Ostensibly Girls is a comedy about female friendship. Shows like Sex and the City drove this home by insisting on plopping a lunch date in the middle of each episode so the ladies could get together and, like, bitch about their men. But Hannah is so alone, wandering around the
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Accused by some of whitewashing Brooklyn and beloved by others for depicting the harsh truth of post-college New York life for over-educated women in their 20s, Girls may well be TV’s most talked-about comedy. Considering that most of...Show More Summary