In a Reddit AmA (ask me anything) comedian, The State alum and self-proclaimed sexy bitch Michael Ian Black fielded questions from the Reddit community. He talked about the potential for a Stella reunion, his failed TV shows, and gives some solid advice to Redditors in need....
Comedy Central announced today that the First Lady, Michelle Obama will drop in to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on May 29. It will be her second visit to the show, having first guested on Oct. 1, 2008. Her visit to the show comes on the same day her first book American...
Ladies (and gentlemen)... it has come to our attention that you can now hear the audiobook version of steamy, sexy -- [ed. note: not to mention horribly written and poorly copy-edited] S&M novel, 50 Shades of Grey read by luscious comedian and voice actor, Gilbert Gottfried. Oh...
Comedian Dave Hill has a book available on May 22 called Tasteful Nudes: ...and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation, a collection of comedic essays featuring “stories about stolen meat, animal attacks, young love, death, naked people, clergymen, rock 'n'...
If Jon Stewart could be called the Ben Franklin of modern American satire, Lizz Winstead is certainly its Betsy Ross. Okay, sure, it’s been a little while here since ninth grade Civics class, but see if you can’t follow the logic train: while Stewart may be responsible for...
Maurice Sendak, the legendary author of trailblazing children's books like Where the Wild Things Are, died today at the age of 83. The cause was complications from a recent stroke, his longtime editor, Michael di Capua, told the New York Times. Sendak will forever be remembered...
It's always a pleasure to see comedians we've been covering for years rise up through the ranks of the comedy world. And Moshe Kasher is of those people. At the end of 2009 (when we were still Punchline Magazine), we named him a Comic to Watch. And he's since made us look like...
Ask a comedian for advice, and more likely than not, you’ll get a joke. Editor Eric Spitznagel at The Believer knows this, so he and Amy Sedaris started a humor/advice column and called it “Sedaratives.” In each issue of the magazine, “Sedaratives” is taken over by a...
If it seems like to you in the last few years there's been an amazing increase in the amount of comedians publishing books, it's probably more than just a feeling. And for the most part, they've been quite successful. Comedy Central, always looking to be ahead of the curve, is...
