By Chase Roper | February 4, 2011 at 1:15 pm | No comments
Did you hear the good news? No, not that “thousands of years old gospel” Good News, but the release of the second Garfunkel and Oates album All Over Your Face. The album was released Tuesday on iTunes and CDBaby.com and has dominated the number one spot on the iTunes comedy...
Posted in: Interviews, Reviews
By Chase Roper | January 27, 2011 at 10:28 pm | One comment
Nick Kroll is a master at taking a stereotype, exaggerating it to the end of the Earth, and transforming it into characters that dynamically stand on their own as individual voices and points of view. He is an engineer designing ultimate vehicles of comedy. This weekend, Kroll...
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By Chase Roper | January 25, 2011 at 12:24 pm | 11 comments
Judd Apatow, the cash cow comedy producer (Judd Apacashcow?) did not like Ricky Gervais' brash hosting style on the Golden Globes. To voice his disdain, Apatow, while he was hosting the Producers Guild Awards, explained why certain jokes were unfair and too mean spirited; then...
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By Chase Roper | January 24, 2011 at 12:43 pm | 3 comments
Magooby's Joke House has accomplished the unthinkable-- 81 hours of continuous stand-up comedy, thus snagging them the new world record.
Setting this record was no easy task as the club had strict guidelines to follow. According to Guinness Book of World Records,...
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By Chase Roper | January 20, 2011 at 8:08 pm | No comments
For Rachel Reenstra, Facebook isn't meerely a social network but a place to learn who your true friends are. Also, it's a great place to ask Jesus The Christ some seriously deep...
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By Chase Roper | January 19, 2011 at 6:47 pm | 5 comments
Sarah Palin is the bane of my daily news reading. Thankfully, she is fodder for brilliant comics like Jamie...
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By Chase Roper | January 18, 2011 at 5:08 pm | One comment
This video made me realize something, when a fat guy takes the stage, I DO feel overly prepared to laugh. Chelsea Peretti shares some observations about weight and also about how a typical comedy audience responds to a fat guy jiggling around. I enjoyed this clip and I'm fairly...
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By Chase Roper | January 17, 2011 at 12:48 pm | 2 comments
Happy Martin Luther King Day everybody, from Seaton Smith and all of us at Punchline...
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By Chase Roper | January 13, 2011 at 1:37 pm | No comments
Funny or Die Presents returns to HBO for its second season this Friday, Jan 14 at midnight. Will Ferrell, Brett Gelman, Seth Morris, David Koechner, Rob Riggle, John C. Reilly, Natasha Leggero and a crap load more famous funny folks will all do their part to bring you laughs--...
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