Tag: COMEDY
Negin Farsad and Dean Obeidallah, comedians and documentary filmmakers behind the movie The Muslims Are Coming, are fighting back against conservative activist Pamela Geller’s hateful subway ads with the best weapon in their arsenal: humor. They’re pasting up posters in subway stations with messages like “FACT: Grownup Muslims can do more pushups than baby Muslims,” […]
Years after we saw Elaine dancing, or as George called it, a “full body dry heave set to music,” comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus reveals the backstory about her amazing dance moves in Seinfeld during a talk at the 92Y. Sadly, she didn’t feel inspired to offer another performance (at least not in the footage above), but […]
For years, the Soul Glo Project was a regular production at Upright Citizens Brigade, championed by longtime improvisor Keisha Zollar. However, the next few shows will be in Harlem, where Zollar hopes to foster an indie improv scene similar to those in parts of Brooklyn, Queens and Lower Manhattan. “I’m trying to develop the comedy […]
It’s one of the myriad minor frustrations of apartment life: the people who live upstairs from you are so loud. It sounds like they’re rolling bowling balls or popping hundreds of balloons or clanking chains. In this sketch, though, Above Average reveals the secret: They really are doing all those things, creating an annoying sound […]
New York City’s street art scene is, in a certain light, very silly. Though there are many legitimate artists, it’s also full of pretentious blowhards with more opinions than brains. A lot of the art is bad, and a lot of the people are walking cliches. In this video originally posted on Brooklyn Really, filmmaker […]
Reddit user abadmon31 spotted a poster parodying the famous “Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar” ads and shared a snap on Tuesday. “Dan Smith Will Give You His Guitar,” the poster reads, with the caption, “I’m fucking done, dude.” Reached for comment, a weary-sounding but friendly Dan Smith asked, “Is it the one where I […]
Know that every time you consult some dumb weather app, you are wasting a wonderful opportunity to instead get your weather report from Predator. A new site by comedian, writer and producer Christian Lynch and Jeff Greco called Carl Weathers’ Weather tells you the weather the way Carl Weathers would. Whether the weather’s hot or […]
The lights go down, and a narrator in an Obi-Wan robe begins telling a story about a surprise party for Han Solo. The big reveal: Luke Skywalker is pregnant. With Han’s baby. Then there’s a choreographed dance number to Big Sean’s “Dance (A$$)” featuring aggressive booty-popping from a woman in a Chewbacca costume. It’s sort […]
The folks at Above Average have created an apt parody of strategy board game Settlers of Catan, mocking the gentrifiers who are effectively Columbus-ing Brooklyn. Instead of building communities with resources of lumber, wool, grain, brick and ore, players must conquer existing lands with coffee, bicycles, vinyl, skinny jeans and kale. The first person to […]
Comedian Patrice O’Neal died in 2011, and now his former fiancee Von Decarlo and producer/director Mark Farrell have launched an Indiegogo campaign to crowdfund a documentary about his life and work called Better Than You – The Official Patrice O’Neal Documentary. The producers told Indiewire: We want to do this movie the way Patrice led […]
