Nerdist has won the internet. At least for today. In celebration of Louie CK's self-titled FX series Season 5 debut this month, (and not to mention the 2015 Star Wars Celebration went on this past weekend in California) the digital geek haven featured a brilliant video, one...
TIME magazine released its twelfth-annual TIME 100 today, a list of the 100 most influential people in the world. And, while many familiar names from the arenas of politics and business were featured, some of comedy's best and brightest stars also received honorable mentions...
Amy Schumer and John Oliver join fellow Comedy Central cohorts Jon Stewart and Key & Peele as Peabody Award Winners. The Peabody Awards are given annually for various media. "The single criteria for receiving a Peabody Award is excellence," says its website. Unlike the...
Now, this is super exciting. Rumor has it that your favorite coked-up comedy uncles, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, will be bringing a powerhouse backup team with them when their new Netflix series launches. The title of the forthcoming show is what we all wish we were: With Bob...
Comedian Ricky Gervais is hilarious on television, in films and on stage. But when it comes to social media, he has found a greater use for online tools like Facebook and Twitter: to bring awareness to the mistreatment of wild animals. On April 13, the Derek creator and star...
Fans of the cult hit Joe Dirt can get a taste of the upcoming sequel Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser today. Crackle.com released a trailer for the follow-up to David Spade's 2001 box office bomb. Despite its measly $27 million gross in theaters, Joe Dirt grew an enormous fan base on...
Sarah Silverman caused controversy last week when she implied that comedy club owner Al Martin paid her less for a stand-up set because she was a female comic. She put out a public apology to Martin on Tuesday, acknowledging that her story was "HARDLY an example of the wage...
Commence the melting of our cold, dead, cynical hearts! Things were exciting enough when Disney first let it slip that there might be a sequel to Frozen, its hugely popular animated juggernaut. Exciting, if not terribly surprising: the film has since become the highest grossing...
Eddie Murphy will receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the Kennedy Center announced. The annual prize is awarded for "a fearless observer of society, who startled many while delighting and informing many more with [an] uncompromising perspective on social...
