Los Angeles-based Stroome said today that it is powering an online competition for the 2010 Friars Club Comedy Film Festival. Stroome operates an online service which allows users to collaboratively mix and edit videos. According to Stroome and the comedy club, it will give free submission to the top 3 short videos entered on Stroome's site, for consideration to include at the festival. [Read More]

Larry Charles has been hired to direct the upcoming comedy ‘Pierre Pierre’ starring Jim Carrey. The director is no stranger to outrageous comedies having directed Sacha Baren Cohen in both ‘Bruno’ and ‘Borat.’ The film tells the story of an ill-behaved Frenchman tasked with transporting stolen art from Paris to London. [Read More]

Sixty years ago, Carl Reiner was a regular on Sid Caesar's legendary comedy-variety series, "Your Show of Shows," and Mel Brooks was one of the hungry young writers on the live NBC program. The pair became fast friends, and the comedy world has never been the same. [Read More]

Last year, in The Hangover, Zach Galifianakis turned a relatively small role into 2009's most memorable laugh-fest. Well, he’s done it again with his work in Dinner For Schmucks, soon to hit t... [Read More]

Do you think you’re capable of writing the next comedy movie as great as Anchorman? Well, you probably can’t, but if you want to try to convince a studio to give you a shot then you should heed the advice of Anchorman director Adam McKay in this video. McKay also explains why there’s no Anchorman sequel on the horizon at the moment. [Read More]

If you're among the estimated 10,842 people in the U.S. fortunate enough to be named "Cyrus," you live in Los Angeles, and you enjoy awkward romantic comedies, co-star Jonah Hill invites you to see Cyrus for free this Saturday. Hill will host a special screening at the 20th Century Fox studio lot, reserved exclusively for anyone in the L.A. area who can bring photo I.D. proving that they’re an “actual Cyrus,” [Read More]

in 1990, there was an attempt to make an actual theatrical release called "The Saturday Night Live Movie," an anthology comedy film a la "Kentucky Fried Movie" that was aimed at satirizing the experience of going to the movies, written by an all-star cast of writers who have been associated with the show over the years. [Read More]

"We're changing some of the Bush references to Obama because we started it awhile ago. And the Bluths may not be vacationing in the Gulf of Mexico anymore. We also might have to recast the part of Uncle Mel, the former action movie star. But other than that we have a clear path." [Read More]

One of the founders of the Chicago-based comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, Walsh will direct an improvised feature called "High Road" that he wrote with Josh Weiner. And he has recruited a raft of well-known comedians to star, including Horatio Sanz ("Saturday Night Live"), Rob Riggle ("The Daily Show With Jon Stewart"), Abby Elliott ("SNL"), Lizzy Kaplan ("Hot Tub Time Machine"), Kyle Gass ("Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny") and Zach Woods ("The Office"). The film follows a part-time w... [Read More]

A short silent comedy that was lost for decades holds a big surprise for film buffs and historians when a familiar face emerges from the bushes in police uniform and that unforgettable mustache. The 1914 film, "A Thief Catcher," was missing for so many years that everyone forgot Charlie Chaplin made a brief cameo as a buffoon Keystone cop, with all his familiar twitches and gestures - playing a two-bit part in one of his earliest films. The first public screening of the film, perhaps since 1914,... [Read More]