In school I was an almost straight-A student (damn you, Driver's Ed!). In retrospect that's really lame. Straight-B students were much cooler because they were clearly smart, but weren'...
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For years, Paul Reubens has been hard at work trying to revive Pee-wee Herman. The live show revival was phase-one of the plan. Phase-two should come as no surprise after the success of his LA run; th...
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The new M. Night Shyamalan movie The Last Airbender comes out this week, and one of the film's stars is none other than Daily Show correspondent Aasif Mandvi. In this web-exclusive video, Aasif t...
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Longtime devotees of this blog are well aware that I'm not a fan of comedy. Not since I watched my parents brutally murdered by a joke about airplane food. But if I was the kind of person who lik...
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Boy oh boy, did you miss a great night of comedy in Los Angeles! It may be cold and rainy, but the crowds certainly didn't seem to mind.
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As Funny People is released, Jay Richardson examines the relationship between stand-up and cinema
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"I kept thinking of the Karate Kid because he was like this sensei who was like, ‘Do this with your arms.' And you're like, ‘Okay, so what does that do?'" Martin recounts. "I just tried to be a student this whole time and follow their lead and trust that they found someone to do what they wanted. I didn't come in saying, ‘I figured out the character, and here's what I'm going to do, Ang.' It was more like, ‘Okay, what do you want me to do? Walk faster? Okay!'"
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Carmike Cinemas, Inc. announced that Screenvision will partner to present STAND-UP 360 New York City Comedy at Carmike Cinemas theatres on May 4, 2009. Tickets are $15; show times and purchase information can be found at www.carmike.com. STAND-UP 360 will be delivering a series of feature-length stand-up comedy performances recorded live at the Broadway Comedy Club in New York City.
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Comedy Central star Demetri Martin has been cast opposite Brad Pitt in "Moneyball," a professional baseball drama that Steven Soderbergh is directing.
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I was flipping through the channels and came across The Great Outdoors on TV yesterday. I had forgotten how incredibly funny that movie was and also how good John Candy was in it. It was a real shame to lose John Candy at such a young age.
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