Image of Just For Laughs Chicago 2013: Day 4 with The Laugh Butt, The Lonely Island, Al Madrigal, Hannibal Buress, and Seth Meyers
Just For Laughs Chicago 2013: Day 4 with The Laugh Butt, The Lonely Island, Al Madrigal, Hannibal Buress, and Seth Meyers
Holy smokes! We were psyched to get day 4 of Just For Laughs Chicago up and running! Why? Because we were going to get some face time with some of our favorite comedians! Each and every time we turned around another stellar comedian was coming by our room to shoot some video for us. There [...]Just ... [Read More]
 
Set List live improvised stand-up shows come to Nerdist, with a special LIVE show for YouTube Comedy Week
Set List is an American creation that first scored a TV deal across the pond, but is finally finding its way back home with a webseries version that you can enjoy wherever you have Internet access. Episode highlights of the live shows began appearing... [Read More]
 
Denver comedy collective The Grawlix thrives without fleeing to the coasts
Whether it’s Austin, Seattle or Detroit, every non-coast comedy scene deals with the same conundrum: You build a community of talented standups, and just when things are looking good, the scene’s most prominent comics ditch their home-town for the si... [Read More]
 
Image of James Adomian as Marc Maron in IFC/Funny or Die webseries, “Maron in Space”
James Adomian as Marc Maron in IFC/Funny or Die webseries, “Maron in Space”
If you've never imagined Marc Maron in a Star Trek parody, then here's your chance to do so, with an added twist: That's comedian James Adomian as Maron in "Maron in Space," a new webseries from Funny or Die and IFC just in time to promote Maron's ne... [Read More]
 
The Grawlix, Kristen Schaal, Zombieland, Bill Murray among Amazon Instant comedy pilots launched today
Good news people, the Denver comedy trio The Grawlix have a new video and you can watch that thing right now. The trio’s new sitcom pilot, “Those Who Can’t” was just released on Amazon Instant Video. But The Grawlix aren’t the only ones, for this is one of seven pilots ... [Read More]
 
“Joke Life” Ben Overzet’s new documentary about stand-up comedy (interview)
There’s a new documentary about stand-up comedy in the works and it’s called Joke Life. Director Ben Overzet has set out to follow the lives of three Denver comedians (Ben Roy, Sam Tallent, and Troy Baxley) in a film that explores what it’s like to be a modern-day comic. Having seen Ben Roy destroy ... [Read More]
 
Image of Dan Aykroyd and Allison Janney to Join Melissa McCarthy's 'Tammy'
Dan Aykroyd and Allison Janney to Join Melissa McCarthy's 'Tammy'
Melissa McCarthy is lining up quite an impressive cast for Tammy, her first movie as director. Variety reports that Dan Aykroyd and Allison Janney are both in talks to join the cast, which also includes McCarthy, Mark Duplass, Susan Sarandon, and Kathy Bates. Tammy will mark the first movie as scr... [Read More]
 
Image of John Roy's Free Comedy Class
John Roy's Free Comedy Class
John Roy pays it forward with a free 12-week comedy class via his Tumblr. [Read More]
 
Kathleen Madigan, Earthquake and Retha Jones on an all-comedy episode of The View
Performing stand-up comedy on live morning television sounds thrilling enough until you stop on the word "morning" and realize, ohhhhh, stand-up comedy on TV in the morning doesn't sound much fun. Who's ready to laugh first thing in the morning? Is i... [Read More]
 
Yes, there is a degree available for being the class clown
Finally, thanks to Columbia College, and their partner The Second City, it is now possible to get a bachelor degree in comedy writing and performing in the U.S. Don’t go looking else where though, Columbia is the only college offering a degree for being the class clown. Countless jokesters are all r... [Read More]