Conan O’Brien’s high-school letter to E.B. White

Conan O’Brien graduated from Brookline High School in 1981. As a junior, the teenager who was not yet a beloved TV writer and late-night host apparently wasn’t feeling much love for the game. Until he got a hold of some E.B. White. White, a…

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Enjoy this pitch perfect 30 For 30 treatment of “The Karate Kid” #TBT

If you haven’t yet treated yourself to the first season of Cobra Kai on YouTube, better get to it before season two drops next week. The series wonderfully spins the whole saga of The Karate Kid around and around, making you question who really i…

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Enjoy this pitch perfect 30 For 30 treatment of “The Karate Kid” #TBT

If you haven’t yet treated yourself to the first season of Cobra Kai on YouTube, better get to it before season two drops next week. The series wonderfully spins the whole saga of The Karate Kid around and around, making you question who really i…

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Late-night TV election sketches brought back Borat, Dr. Evil and Triumph the Insult Comic Dog

One of the odder aspects of this year’s Election Day madness, and there were many odd things to choose from, was seeing so many old comedy characters come out of the woodwork for late-night TV sketches and bits. Borat canvassed in Los Angeles for…

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Listen to The History of Standup as told by Wayne Federman and friends

You want to get your TBTs on in a very comedy way? Starting this week, your ear holes can deliver the history of comedy into your brain parts, thanks to the brand-new podcast, The History of Standup. Over the course of six weekly episodes, teacher Wayne Federman (who is a legit professor of comedy at […]

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Jack Black and Richard Linklater on their unlikely partnership on 2003’s feel-good hit, School of Rock

Scott Rudin needed to persuade both star Jack Black and director Richard Linklater that Linklater was the right choice to direct 2003’s film, School of Rock. As these new interviews for an American Masters documentary on Linklater prove 14 years later. “At first we were like, that doesn’t make sense because this is like a […]

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Watch Billy Crystal race David Letterman in a classic “Battle of the Network Stars” obstacle course

Late-night TV talk show hosts love digging up old clips from a celebrity guest’s early career, but this clip Jimmy Kimmel Live found of Billy Crystal is extra special. As ABC prepares to reboot Battle of the Network Stars, Kimmel showed Crystal a clip from the classic years in the 1970s, racing against David Letterman […]

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Will Ferrell and Adam McKay launch 11-episode retrospective on 10 years of Funny or Die

“It was 2007, and at this point, the Internet was basically just a place for perverts to talk dirty to each other,” says writer/director Adam McKay. “It was rubble,” added comedy star Will Ferrell. “It was just a vast field of rubble.” Enter Saturday Night Live alums McKay and Ferrell, and their idea to make […]

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Samantha Bee reminds us she was on the case of Russian hacking and fake news trolling BEFORE the election

While the FBI and Congress are still trying to figure out what happened in our presidential election of 2016 and who helped the Russians and how much the Russians meddled with us, Samantha Bee already knew. Bee told us all about it months ago, before Election Day. As she reminded us all on last night’s […]

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Now hear this: The very first “State of the Industry” by Andy Kindler at Just For Laughs Montreal in 1996

For years now, we’ve been sharing notes, transcripts and more recently full audio recordings of Andy Kindler’s annual State of the Industry Address that he delivers at Montreal’s Just For Laughs Comedy Festival. It has become one of the must-see, must-listen moments each July at comedy’s largest confab. What will Kindler have to say about […]

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