By Punchline Magazine | April 22, 2010 at 12:35 pm | No comments
Chris Rock and Tracy Morgan have done a shit ton of press to promote their new flick Death at a Funeral, which is out in theaters now. But of all the print or text-based online interviews or television appearances we've seen, we like this one the best. So we say congrats,...
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By Punchline Magazine | April 21, 2010 at 1:45 pm | No comments
Yesterday, FX finally announced the premiere date of Louis C.K.'s highly anticipated new series Louie. It's happening June 29 at 11 pm EST, by the way. As you probably know, the show will focus on Louie's life as a newly-divorced single dad living in the New York City with his...
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By Punchline Magazine | April 20, 2010 at 8:32 pm | No comments
It's amazing. Between George Lopez being besties with Sandra Bullock -- you might have heard she's in the midst of a bit of a scandal -- and Conan O'Brien sliding onto TBS, Lopez's profile has risen dramatically. And he's just hosting his show the same way he has been since last...
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By Emma Kat Richardson | April 20, 2010 at 12:51 pm | No comments
But really, would we have expected anything less? In an interview with the Wall Street Journal's David Weidner, Black beared his trademark fangs against the Tea Partiers, and especially comic goldmine Sarah Palin. Check it...
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By Dylan P. Gadino | April 19, 2010 at 12:58 pm | 4 comments
A few weeks ago, I sat down with comedian Patrice Oneal at Comix to film an episode of Punchline Magazine's web series A Tight Five, which, as you might know, are five minute interviews with well known comedians. But to get that polished five minutes, we shoot much longer.
And...
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By Brendan McLaughlin | April 16, 2010 at 5:06 pm | No comments
Chris Rock is a major MVP in the late guest department, and his recent appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon was up to his usual standard of excellence. When the subject of Rock producing a Richard Pryor biopic came up, Rock recalled a crude piece of advice he got from...
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By Brendan McLaughlin | April 16, 2010 at 4:07 pm | One comment
No comedy fan’s iTunes library is complete without a subscription to The Sound Of Young America podcast. Host Jesse Thorn conducts awesome interviews with people from different parts of the entertainment world. Most of them are comedy related, and Thorn does a great job of...
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By Punchline Magazine | April 16, 2010 at 3:28 pm | No comments
Take a nine second stroll around the Internet today and you’ll find no dearth of videos parodying Tiger Woods, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama and Jesse James. But, really who has time to watch all of them? We’ll tell you, who. We do. But, we’re lazy, and we much rather watch...
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By Jonathan Morvay | April 16, 2010 at 2:01 pm | 2 comments
Kevin Pollak’s new web series Vamped Out premiered this week on Babelgum. But for someone who was named one of the top 100 comedians of all time by Comedy Central, this faux documentary about a real life vampire certainly lacks any jokes.
The documentary focuses on Alowisus...
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