By John Delery | April 22, 2011 at 10:06 am | 2 comments
Save your $12, moviegoers: You can see Scream free every day at home on any cable-news channel, the battlefield for combative squawking heads.
That said, may we suggest clicking to HBO at 9 pm EST tonight to watch four civilized and celebrated fundits, Louis C.K., Ricky...
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By John Delery | April 21, 2011 at 12:38 pm | One comment
Look…up in the skyscraper…it’s Super Manager, a.k.a. Jack Donaghy, the super-mannerly and super-manipulative exec on 30 Rock, and the star of the first of three animated videos the producers of the hilarious NBC series are releasing online at NBC.com.
Alec Baldwin voices...
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By John Delery | April 15, 2011 at 1:36 pm | One comment
Comedians crave the spotlight the way plants covet sunlight.
So Wednesdays at Timothy O’Toole’s in Chicago, their lodge of sorts, Marty DeRosa, Danny Kallas, Joe Kilgallon, Mike Lebovitz, Drew Michael and Michael Sanchez reconvene their six-member comedy club: Comedians You...
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By John Delery | April 14, 2011 at 11:02 pm | No comments
Comedians crave the spotlight the way plants covet sunlight. So Wednesdays at Timothy O’Toole’s in Chicago, their lodge of sorts, Marty DeRosa, Danny Kallas, Joe Kilgallon, Mike Lebovitz, Drew Michael and Michael Sanchez reconvene their six-member comedy club: Comedians You...
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By John Delery | April 12, 2011 at 5:47 pm | No comments
Larry David, the master of uncomfortable comedy, probably had to charter two Airbus A380s just to transport all his emotional baggage from LA to NYC for the eighth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
The grouchy, slouchy comic (and, of course, the man behind the scenes of...
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By John Delery | April 12, 2011 at 5:15 pm | One comment
As if Zach Galifianakis news was Grandma’s turkey-marshmallow surprise, we eat up nuggets about the comedian, actor, poser.
Not that he’s someone who acts in an affected manner to impress others. No, siree. We mean someone who stands, squats, lies in bed and even lounges...
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By John Delery | April 1, 2011 at 2:11 pm | No comments
Well here’s some comedy news that’s hoity and toity and cool: Comedians Joe DeRosa, Bill Burr and Robert Kelly will premiere their short film, Cheat, in the Short Narrative competition at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. The trio produced, wrote and star in the...
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By John Delery | March 3, 2011 at 12:16 pm | 103 comments
Like Jim Norton and Patrice O’Neal, Sarah Silverman and Lisa Lampanelli, Daniel Tosh clearly belongs to Comics Without Borders, a cadre of comedians that fearlessly (some scolds may say tastelessly) crosses boundaries to deliver jokes to those in need…of convulsive...
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By John Delery | February 23, 2011 at 11:40 pm | No comments
As perceptive and profane and profound as Lee Camp can be, he really does not represent a generation of new comic as much as the regeneration of an old one: George Carlin. Lucky him! Lucky us!
His antic and intensely interesting new CD from Stand Up! Records, Chaos for the...
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