Earlier today The Onion's CEO Steve Hannah issued an apology for an Oscars-night tweet from the satirical newspaper's official Twitter feed, wherein 9-year-old actress Quvenzhané Wallis (nominated in the lead actress category for her work in Beasts of the Southern Wild) was...
UPDATE: 2:10 pm EST -- The Onion has apologized. The full statement is below: On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the tweet that was circulated last night during the Oscars. It...
Thanks to the fine folks at ThingX.com, true comedy fans get to watch Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington (aka Neil Hamburger) cover the Oscars. Check out the live feed below! Be sure to subscribe to the weekly Laughspin Podcast on iTunes or on SoundCloud for all the...
I don't want to give anything away in this video -- Part 2 of the Between Two Ferns Oscar special (Part One is here) -- but I'd just like to say that I hope Zach Galifianakis and Bradley Cooper can put their differences aside so that they can deliver yet another slightly...
With the 85th Academy Awards just around the corner -- Feb. 24 to be precise -- it makes sense that Zach Galifianakis would sit down with some of this year's Oscar nominees, right? Wrong. Of course not. And that's why this special edition of Between Two Ferns is...
Many of us tuned in last tonight to watch the 84th Annual Academy Awards ceremony (even if only to #TweetRoast it live). Billy Crystal hosted the ceremony for the ninth time, returning after an eight-year hiatus. After recanting Eddie Murphy as host (and Brett Ratner as the...
Last September Jeffrey Ross showed up to Comedy Central’s Roast of Charlie Sheen costumed as Muammar Gaddafi, walking the red carpet with two, um, lovely ladies. Last night, professional prankster Sacha Baron Cohen arrived to the Oscars red carpet donned as General Aladeen,...
Days before the Oscars, the Academy had banned Sacha Baron Cohen from showing up to the event as the character of his upcoming flick, The Dictator. Then the Academy was all, like, "eh, what's the worst that could happen?" Well, if you consider it "the worst," we suppose Cohen...
Hey, remember that time when the motion picture academy announced that none other than comedy icon Eddie Murphy was set to host this year's Oscars? But then Murphy's buddy, director Brett Ratner -- who was set to produce the Oscars -- said a bunch of absurd shit on television...
