Nicole Campos

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Ready, Set, Laug

Chances are if you are a die-hard comedy fan, you love all forms of comedy regardless of the format, so long as it gives you a good hard case of the shits and giggles. Some fans do prefer certain formats to others, of course; stand-up, for example, is favored by......
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A Spider-Man That Doesn't Bite

Last year, while Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was still struggling with cast injuries and technical problems delaying its big splashy Broadway launch, some enterprising Off-Broadway writers and actors decided enough was enough. "In response to big wasteful Broadway money-sucking mega-musicals that emphasize spectacle over story," they said, "we launched......
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Two White Chicks Sitting Around Talking Funny

Amy Poehler's steady rise from the only female member of the O.G. Upright Citizens' Brigade, to cult comedy mainstay, to longtime SNL lynchpin and now the star of one of TV's most critically acclaimed sitcoms has rarely seen her deliver a performance where she was off her game. Hell, she......
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Clip Art

The U.K. team of Adam & Joe have been beloved by an entire generation of young, pop culture–savvy comedy fans for some time now, from their irreverent Channel 4 series in the 1990s through to their recent, hilarious radio programs on BBC 6 Music. While Joe Cornish earned considerable acclaim......
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He Was a Nerd Before You Were a Nerd

It's been just shy of two years since Chris Hardwick teamed up with pals Jonah Ray and Matt Mira and launched the Nerdist podcast. It almost immediately became an iTunes sensation and since then Hardwick's experiment in geeky comedy has expanded into a veritable nerd empire. Nerdist Industries' reach includes......
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Best Worst Movie

Watching movies doesn't have to be a communal experience. Hell, sometimes a really great movie is best watched on your own, in case it's awesomely downbeat and puts you in a self-reflective funk, or just makes you ugly-cry like a toddler for hours. Bad movies, though? Bad movies are totally......
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Proops On

Greg Proops has been a cult comedy fave for nearly two decades now, as popular overseas (original U.K. Whose Line Is It Anyway? cast, w00t!) as he is here among comedy nerds. Equally prolific as a standup, voice-over artist and TV panelist as he is for the improv comedy that......
Jon Bernthal

San Diego Comic-Con 2011: The Walking Dead is Back, With A Vengeance

At last year's San Diego Comic-Con, The Walking Dead hadn't yet debuted on AMC. Of huge interest to comics fans and zombie aficionados, filmmaker (and now showrunner) Frank Darabont's epic based on Robert Kirkman's acclaimed Image graphic novel series was a popular draw, if not quite the must-see hot-ticket that......