Tag: COMEDY
Wednesday afternoon marks the final 24 hours of a now-viral Kickstarter campaign to erect a museum for figure skaters Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan in a Brooklyn apartment hallway. With the modest goal of $75 having been met and far surpassed, the museum is already underway. The museum’s proprietors are Matt Harkins and Viviana Olen, […]
New York comedian Chris Gethard, whose 30-minute show debuts at Fusion in May, is already enlisting the help of his viewers. In a new video, Gethard, sans shirt, asks his fans to send in kitschy crap from their homes so the set of The Chris Gethard Show feels like an authentic basement. “I want it […]
Comedian and Cosmo writer Lane Moore has turned hunting for love on Tinder into a spectator event with her monthly Knitting Factory show “Tinder Live!” For Valentine’s Day, the cast of Orange is the New Black dropped in for a visit. They were pretty into it. Beth Fowler, known to you and I as Sister […]
After raising funds on Kickstarter, David Cross is embarking on the second part of his cinematic experiment and directorial debut, Hits. The actor’s new comedy is now available for download on BitTorrent and the model is pay-what-you-can. It also launched in 52 theaters following the same pay model. Cross’s film was more or less panned […]
Snapchat is coming out with a webseries. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that the daughters of film director Steven Spielberg and producer John Goldwyn will write and star in a show called — wait for it — Literally Can’t Even. It will be a comedic take on the lives writing partners Sasha Spielberg (coming off […]
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who supported the Eric Garner protests and has admitted to smoking weed, continues to be a man of the people. On Tuesday afternoon, he performed a dramatic reading of an Onion article that gently mocked his preparedness for a storm that never arrived in New York City. Mayor de Blasio just […]
Comedian Louis C.K. was superb at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night, the second show of his tour at the legendary venue. Not surprisingly, it was packed. After all, who else can joke about how he’d choke his crying baby on a plane in order to appease fellow passengers — or illustrate how he’d finger a […]
Another celebrities has taken to Kickstarter, but before you rolls your eyes, know that this is a “first of its kind” experiment by comedian David Cross. In other words, this project may be well worth your money. Cross is gearing up to release dark comedy Hits, his directorial debut that stars Matt Walsh, James Adomian, […]
After pretty much everyone mocked them, the president scolded them, and some even offered to screen the movie for them, it seems that Sony executives have backtracked from their original stance of having “no plans” to release The Interview. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Sony CEO Michael Lynton said, “We would still like the public […]
After its whirlwind courtship with Comedy Central ended with heartache, The Chris Gethard Show is getting all romantical with another cable network. The show, self-described as “the most bizarre and often saddest talk show in New York City,” currently broadcasts from Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s small Hell’s Kitchen studio on Wednesday nights with an internet livestream. […]
