The Golden Globes may be criticized year-in and year-out for skewing nominations and awards to the hottest celebrities, but what about the Webbys? For all of the great work uploading and exploding online, the Webby Awards is a corporate entity that t... [Read More]

Last night the Friars Club’s 5th annual Comedy Film Festival officially began. The night kicked off at NYU’s Cantor Film Center where of He’s Way More Famous Than You was showcased. The cute comedy stars Hailey Feiffer on her quest to make a hit movie in order to restore her once promising film care... [Read More]

Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk aren’t just the stars and producers of comedy films and television series that will live in perpetuity on DVD players, DVRs and cable-TV programming lineups. They’re also among the creative talent responsible for two new comedy series that IFC said Thursday that it had picked up. [Read More]

Seth MacFarlane's foul-mouthed teddy bear of a movie, Ted, has earned more than $500 million in box-office receipts around the world since hitting your nearby cineplex in June, despite its R rating by the MPAA. Remarkable? Certainly. But tops in the ... [Read More]

For two decades, trivia listings on Wikipedia, IMDB and other websites listed Janeane Garofalo as married. Despite her many jokes and serious statements over the years on stand-up comedy stages, TV shows and other appearances to the contrary, in whic... [Read More]

When someone mentions the name Gaylord “Greg” Focker to you. There’s a chance you get a fond and funny thought in your head recalling the Ben Stiller character from the movie franchise Meet The Parents which co-starred Robert DeNiro. Well the guy behind the million dollar franchise... [Read More]

The New York Comedy Festival announced a 20th anniversary all-star reunion of the cast of The Ben Stiller Show, with Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, Bob Odenkirk, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, Jeff Kahn and Rob Cohen convening at The Paley Center for Media ... [Read More]

Saturday Night Live’s Bill Hader will host a night of roundtable discussions about the art of comedy for the EPIX channel this month. The curator of the night, Ben Stiller has rounded up some of his favorite comedians for a night of spontaneous, unique and funny conversations at the 4th Annual... [Read More]

Showtime announced today during the TV Critics Association summer press tour that Inside Comedy had earned a 10-episode second season, which will premiere in January 2013. Among the comedians interviewed by David Steinberg this time around: Ben Still... [Read More]

EPIX, which has been running comedy specials since its 2009 launch, is now setting up a new monthly comedy showcase. Titled EPIX Comedy Unbound, the franchise will kick off with Jim Norton: Please Be Offended on June 30 and will air the last weekend of every month. It will feature comedians who has done specials for EPIX before, like Lewis Black and Kevin Smith, as well as Jim Jefferies, Sherri Shepherd, and Eddie Griffin, among others. The showcase also will carry the annual All-Star Comedy Rou... [Read More]