I always get really upset when a famous person dies. Not because I'm mournful, but because I'm terrible at picking people for my celebrity death pool. For example, this year I picked Suri Cruise and The Highlander. On the other hand, as he ... [Read More]

Each month the folks at Rookie Mag ask a real-life grown grown human male to answer reader questions. They call the recurring feature Ask A Grown Man. Get it? Anyway, this month’s featured grown man is none other than Paul Rudd. Fact: No one in... [Read More]

Our favorite musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates — aka Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome — are releasing a brand new album Feb. 21. And it’s title is Slippery When Moist– perhaps a nod to Bon Jovi’s 1986 breakthrough alb... [Read More]

Comedy Central has given a pilot order to Almost Vacant, created by and starring Canadian actors Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods. The project follows the misadventures of two inept friends, Jim (Woods) and Nic (Wright), as they work at a low-end budget hotel in upper New York. The two are constantly working as hard as they can to do the least amount of work, while a cast of awkward and ineffectual co-workers and friends make their lives more difficult but exponentially more interesting. [Read More]

Austin hosts plenty of festivals that keep the city weird with live music, films and comedy. SXSW is the biggest and most well-known. There's also the Fun Fun Fun Fest. But comedy always is the sideshow to the music. Comedy earns its own place in the... [Read More]

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The ANA Alliance for Family Entertainment (AFE)'s first annual writing contest winner is Megan Angelo, a journalist and aspiring screenwriter, took home the winning prize of $5,000 plus the opportunity to be mentored by TV icon John Wells for her script, O’Connell for Congress. [Read More]

Many times when actors come together on set to make a movie, they form friendships that last the rest of their lives. And sometimes, a cast member will impregnate another cast member (see Natalie Portman, Angelina Jolie). And then sometimes a cast me... [Read More]

Aussie comic Rebel Wilson and Conan O'Brien are getting into business together on a half-hour comedy at CBS that, on paper at least, appears to be one of the development season's hottest projects. The Eye has picked up a pilot for Super Fun Night, a multi-camera sitcom written by Wilson and produced by O'Brien's Conaco which will feature the Australian comic as one of three geeky female pals who challenge themselves to have, yes, "super fun" each Friday night. [Read More]

With his Showtime series "Inside Comedy" premiering tonight, Steinberg shares his thoughts about the funniest thing on TV today, Woody Allen's influence, Rickle's White House trip and why the comedy business today is not the one on which he was reared. [Read More]