Over the weekend, Conan O’Brien and uber-popular tech news site Mashable teamed up in what will go down as one of the hippest, most creative publicity schemes of the year. It all started when O’Brien commandeered the digital pages of Mashable, ousting CEO Pete Cashmore (the...
For years, Twitter has been an excellent platform for professional and amateur comedians alike to make their quips seen in 140 characters or less. The concept of live-Tweeting an event, especially, has become an esoteric art form. To prove it, you need to look no further than...
This afternoon, Tom Scharpling, host of every comedian's favorite free-form radio program, The Best Show on WFMU and the director of some of the coolest and funniest music videos, started live Tweeting his experience at a New Jersey Starbucks, where Gov. Chris Christie sat two...
It should be no surprise to anyone that Bill Maher would make a remark pointing out the inconsistencies of Christianity. Yet, after tweeting "Wow, Jesus just fucked #TimTebow bad! And on Xmas Eve! Somewhere in hell Satan is tebowing, saying to Hitler ‘Hey, Buffalo's killing...
You might have have heard him singing his own name on Last Comic Standing a few seasons ago, you might have seen him yell at Conan O'Brien, or you might have seen him in the hit web series Puddin' but, in any case, everyone, comedy fan or no, needs to see Eddie...
Internet comedy sensation Kelly Oxford has been entertaining followers for nearly 15 years as a blogger and, most recently, as one of the most high profile Twitter stars. Her unfiltered sense of humor has garnered her praise and fans from all over the comedy world and...
As Twitter and web videos become more pervasive, new non-traditional comedy stars are emerging, building a noticeable following. In the case of recently-turned 18-year-old Shelby Fero, she has taken advantage of the groundswell in comedy on the Internet. She's built up a...
For the last few weeks, Colin Quinn’s twitter feed has mostly included offensive rants on his part, and re-tweets of his followers calling him a has-been or declaring their plan to unfollow him. But yesterday, Quinn seemed to really piss off a lot of people and made otherwise...
During Artie Lange's appearance on Late Show with David Letterman last night, he joked about how, since he's been out of the spotlight for nearly two years he's missed out on a lot of technological advances-- most notably Twitter. Well, Lange quietly joined the microblogging...
