Tag: COMEDY
Here are the greatest LEGO sets you’ll never own, assuming your the type of adult who still buys LEGO sets or the type of child who reads ANIMAL. Created by Flickr user Rifiröfi, the unofficial sets depict classic scenes from Monty Python and the Whole Grail, like the fight with the Black Knight (above), the witch trial, and […]
According to Redditor JayDubz, who snapped the above photo, Tracy Morgan was driving down 7th Avenue in his Porsche, listening to his own standup. No word on when. A quick Googling (which Tracy is sure to appreciate) of the phone number on the awning in the full photo reveals Morgan was indeed on 7th, just down […]
Grown Ups 2, one of the least well-received movies of 2013, begins with Adam Sandler’s character Lenny waking up and getting pissed on by a CGI deer. Grown Ups 2, a movie hovering at 6% on Rotten Tomatoes and 20% on Metacritic, builds up to a far too elaborate ’80s-themed costume party that gets the […]
A few members of the Upright Citizens Brigade, an an institution of American comedy that has counted Amy Poehler, Adam McKay, Aziz Ansari, Nick Kroll, and Donald Glover among its members, stopped by the offices of Mother New York, ANIMAL’s benefactor. We took the opportunity to chat with them about the history of the UCB, […]
I suppose it was only a matter of time before someone rolled out a male-centric parody of your favorite television program of all time, HBO’s Girls. I would have called it Boys, but no matter–24-year-old Manhattanite Anthony DiMieri premiered Bros this week, a show about four former frat-boys and their zany antics on that weird island west of Brooklyn. The show’s […]
Scattered amid the thousands of pictures of Michael Bloomberg speaking behind a podium, the official Flickr account of the mayor’s office contains a treasure trove of strange, hilarious, and otherwise notable images. We did the hard work so you don’t have to, scanning through 10,536 photos and picking out the the greatest hits. Spider-Berg, Spider-Berg, […]
A couple of geniuses created the On1on, a parody/not-parody news site that parodies the parody news site the Onion. Confused yet? The On1on compiles real news stories that are ridiculous enough to appear on the satire site, then packages them in a format that’s nearly identical to the Onion‘s. The site appears to automatically populate with content from Reddit’s “Not The […]
Julien Nitzberg, director of cult favorite The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, created this 10-minute documentary on hero comedian Patton Oswalt. To Be Loved and Understood touches on the performer’s creative process, daily life, and struggles with depression, with a good dose of stand-up footage thrown in as well. Brought to you by the Thrash Lab, […]
The fact that the late Patrice O’Neal starts out this 30-second trailer for Women Aren’t Funny by emphatically saying that they aren’t should be all you need. Also seen in the half-minute preview: Artie Lange, Colin Quinn, Chelsea Peretti, Colin Quinn, Dane Cook and more. Bonnie McFarlane, the woman directing Women Aren’t Funny, interviewed comedian […]
