In the world of musical comedy, few have reached the level of success achieved by Tenacious D. And now the ingenious hard rocking duo – Jack Black and Kyle Gass – have harnessed their powers to make good on their threat to curate their own festival. The one-day...
Since the series finale of Showtime's Emmy-winning pot-themed series Weeds, we've seen a lot less of Nevin Nealon on our small screens. It's bittersweet, of course, for comedy fans. But life after eight seasons of playing Doug Wilson finds the 59-year-old Saturday Night Live...
As the translucent statuettes were being doled out last night in Los Angeles at the 39th annual People’s Choice Awards, I often wondered, who are these “people” and what, really, do they know about comedy? That’s not to say I don’t enjoy Jennifer Aniston and Adam...
On today's episode of Alec Baldwin's podcast Here's The Thing, the 30 Rock star chats with This is 40 writer and director Judd Apatow about his wife, actress Leslie Mann's sex scenes -- "[My wife] was shooting a scene where she was making love with Jeff Goldblum and you just...
Last night, every entertainer in the world came together onstage at Madison Square Garden in New York to raise money for victims of Hurricane Sandy. But when Adam Sandler, accompanied by Paul Shaffer, delivered his rendition of the always-emotional "Hallelujah," (its use in...
Hot on the heels of his record-breaking 10-award take at the Razzies (that’s a bad thing), it’s been announced that Adam Sandler and his Happy Madison movie-making machine will remake the 1987 comedy classic Summer School. The original film was directed by comedy legend...
Although Wanderlust is still in theaters, another David Wain/Ken Marino project (kind of; seems they did re-writes on this one) is already getting some attention. The red band trailer for That's My Boy was released today. The film, in theaters June 15, centers around a...
Oh, Adam Sandler. How the funny have fallen. While many of his classic comedic endeavors, such as Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore were critically panned yet adored by fans, none of his productions reached the level of pure hatred that last year’s Jack and Jill received from...
Two years before Jimmy Fallon exited Saturday Night Live, just as he was building steam as a standout sketch player (and the one SNL cast member who laughed during sketches even when he didn't need to), he released his first comedy album. Strike while the iron is hot, right? It...
