Chris Rock

Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

Jay Mohr

The 1997 Edition Was the Best MTV Video Music Awards

Tonight is the 2012 MTV Video Music Awards. Now in its 29th year, it's had its share of memorable moments, none more so than during the 1997 broadcast. On the occasion of its 15th anniversary, here's the case for why it was the best VMA's ever televised.

2 Chainz Has The Year's Funniest, Creepiest Sexual Boast

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Formerly known as "Tity Boy," Atlanta rapper 2 Chainz is best known as a member of Ludacris' Disturbing tha Peace crewand ... More >>

10 Questions for W. Kamau Bell, Star of His New Show Totally Biased on FX, Exec Produced by Chris Rock

Julie Delpy Is Fighting Everything That's Wrong With Movies

International Pole Convention

Sundance Film Festival 2012: Chris Rock Talks to Barack Obama, and Other Random Festival Notes

After eight days in Park City, I'm back in Los Angeles; the festival continues through the weekend, with the awards announced Saturday night. Here are some notes on films I didn't get a chance to write about at length. Keep an eye out for my wrap-up of the festival in next week's print edition. 2 D ... More >>

From the Why-Didn't-I-Think-of-That Dept.

Schtick or Treat

Top 10 Songs That Namecheck Los Angeles Strip Clubs

What happens at the strip club...​ February is the month we worship upon the altar of amour -- and what better way to let Cupid's arrow fly than investing your hardly-earned dollar bills into the g-string of a bare-bottom UCLA co-ed? If you need some risque recommendations once you or your si ... More >>

What Recession? SoCal's Richest People Measure Their Money In Billions

​Even though the recession allegedly ended in June, 2009, times are still tough. Soup is a staple. Souplantation a luxury. Soup kitchens -- a necessity. But the big wheels keep on turnin'. And the ballers, they keep on ballin'. Southern California's wealthiest people aren't at the tippy top of ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Restrepo, Eyes Wide Open, The Sun Behind the Clouds

Also, Knight and Day, Raavan, The Killer Inside Me and more

David Sedaris Live at UCLA's Royce Hall

David Sedaris​Imagine paying the equivalent of your mortgage on a ticket to see the Rolling Stones and in return the seminal British band hits the stage and opens with a bunch of new songs. Then, to make matters worse, instead of making up for the lackluster beginning, Mick, Keith and company ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The City of Your Final Destination, Oceans, Five Easy Pieces

Also, Paper Man, Handmade Nation, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D and more

Movie Reviews: Exit Through the Gift Shop, Handsome Harry

Also, Letters to God, The Joneses, Who Do You Love and more

Strange Death Fellows

How do you go from In the Company of Men, to remaking The Wicker Man, to directing a Martin Lawrence/Chris Rock comedy? Neil LaBute explains himself

African-American Photography Exhibit

THE BLACK LIST GOES ON

Mega-Telethon Broadcasting From L.A., Elsewhere

CNNAnderson Cooper.​A Friday telethon to raise money for the victims of last week's earthquake in Haiti will be broadcast from Los Angeles, New York, London and Haiti, organizers announced Thursday. It will be everywhere: ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, BET, The CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, CMT, PBS, TNT, Show ... More >>

IF A MIME PERFORMS AT UCB AND EVERYONE LAUGHS, DID HE MAKE A SOUND?

Movie Reviews: Couples Retreat, The Damned United, Good Hair

Also, Paris, The Horse Boy and more

Lenny Bruce: How to Talk Dirty and Influence Auctions

It's been 43 years since "sick," "dirty" standup comedian Lenny Bruce died of a morphine overdose in Los Angeles, but his legacy lives on -- not only in the candid ways in which Americans from academia to the pulpit now feel free to discuss human behavior, or the liberating (and sometimes not so lib ... More >>

SCOTT AUKERMAN: MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!

IF A MIME PERFORMS AT UCB AND EVERYONE LAUGHS, DID HE MAKE A SOUND?

Movie reviews: House, Repo! The Genetic Opera, Also, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Also, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Dear Zachary and more

Razorback

Bonnaroo Crowd Says F*ck You Mister West and Your Awesome Awesomeness

For the dirt on Kayne's five in the morning show and why that didn't go down too well with the kids, let's check in with Sean Maloney at the Nashville Scene. Early word in the press tent was that Kanye West disappointed the 'Roo crew with an untimely, five-o-clock-in-the-fucking-morning set. Rumor ... More >>

Chris Rock Guest-Stars at the Pellicano Circus

For once Chris Rock played the straight man. From the moment he stepped into court Friday to testify at Anthony Pellicano’s racketeering trial, Rock appeared somber and apprehensive. With hands clasped behind his back, he looked like a condemned man walking to the electric chair. Rock, wearing a d ... More >>

Film Reviews

Movie Reviews: Bee Movie, Darfur Now, Primo Levi's Journey

Also Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

Film Reviews: Premonition, I Think I Love My Wife and Others

Also Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon and Tortilla Heaven

Morning Becomes Sifl & Olly

A Rock and a Hard Place

Huey and Riley, uncensored, invade basic cable; Chris Rock finds his sweet side

Live in LA

Sunset Junction August 27-28 Snoop Dogg/Red Hot Chili Peppers/Ice Cube at the Greek, August 25

Saving the Laugh Track

Is the sitcom drought coming to an end? The new contenders: Jake in Progress, The Office and Life on a Stick

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

A Considerable Town
Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77 — film . . . fashion . . . warm bodies

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

Will Chris Rock Be Oscar Dyn-O-Mite?

If Rock bombs he’ll have only himself (and maybe conservatives) to blame

Waves of Sympathy

No Laughing Matter

Bill Cosby’s demons, and ours

Death of a Bondsman

Remembering Celes King

The 'Real' Deal

The mockumentaries have it at the Fifth Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival

Chinese Baby Girls attack L.A.!

Edited by Kateri Butler

First Lady

The queen of comedy gets big laughs

Amazing Gracie

Renée Zellweger makes Neil LaBute’s dizzy Nurse Betty her own

A Whimper From Venus

Apocalyptus Interruptus

Under the Skin

The 52nd Festival de Cannes