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Pretty Much Still Chappelle's Show

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

Why Online Comedy Fests Can't Beat Live Laughs

See also: *JASH: Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera and Friends Create a New YouTube Channel *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles "The internet is like the wild west! It's totally unregulated so we thought it would be cool to see how far we can go without any consequences." Those were Sarah S ... More >>

5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week, Including Spanish Comedy Hit El Tenorio Comico

5. Kathleen Madigan Classic sample Madigan: "My parents never noticed anything, ever. I could have been paralyzed from the waist down, and my father would have said, 'That's our lazy kid.'" Comedy & Magic Club; Thurs.-Fri., Jan. 17-18, 8 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 19, 6:45 & 9:30 p.m.

12 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles *How Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Became a (Twice a Month) Comedy Club Audiences may be more fractured than ever before, but they're also more loyal to performers who cut though the din to foster personal connections under the guise of humor. He ... More >>

10 Comedy Events We're Looking Forward to This Fall

The leaves are turning, the pumpkin lattes are over-caffeinating and the comedy calendar is packing in shows and releases like snot-nosed children onto the back of a hayride wagon. Here are a few of the upcoming highlights.

Worst Foot Forward: When Comedy Goes Wrong

Burn! 10 Questions with Jeff Ross About His New Comedy Central Show

Comic Jeff Ross' balls are as big as his mouth, which is on fire every week on his new Comedy Central show, The Burn with Jeff Ross, where he rips "the world a new asshole, one crack at a time." You probably know Ross as the Roastmaster General, the network's go-to-guy for its annual celeb roasts wh ... More >>

Reggie Watts

Jason Nash Is Married : Larry David Meets Lucy Ricardo in One of the Best Web Sitcoms You're Not Watching

"It's a funny thing with me. Things seem to go poorly when I am around them." A little bit clueless egoist (think Larry David) with a little Lucy Ricardo thrown in, Jason Nash plays more or less himself in his web series Jason Nash Is Married , soon on the Comedy Central website, in which he's a st ... More >>

Make Us Laugh, Funny Boy!

Jason Nash

Key & Peele on Comedy Central: Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele's New Sketch Series

"Did you ever have a situation where you meet somebody and you end up having a long, nerdy conversation with them?" Jordan Peele, who stars with Keegan-Michael Key in Comedy Central's new sketch show, Key & Peele, asks over the phone. It's happened to me and has likely happened to many people readi ... More >>

Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances: Popping Birthed The Moonwalk

[Editor's Note: Writer Jessica A. Koslow is a USC master's student writing her thesis on krumping. Know Your L.A. Hip-Hop Dances explores some of the most popular street dances in our city.] Popping Popping is harder than it looks: Like a robot, or even a mime, your body is stiff and you move slo ... More >>

Corporations Are Not People, L.A. City Council Unanimously Declares (Stephen Colbert Begs to Differ)

Colbert is going to be mad at the L.A. City Council.​The L.A. City Council today voted to support the idea that corporations do not share the rights of individual Americans under the U.S. Constitution. Occupy L.A. demonstrators were in the house when the council took its vote. The move come ... More >>

Stephanie Miller's Sexy Liberal Comedy Tour

Countering the right wing's fury with humor

Hey, Neighbor!

Dirt Nasty: Famous for Being (Almost) Famous

A strangely successful indie white comedy rapper conceived by former model/MTV veejay Simon Rex, who early on did porn to pay the bills? Welcome to L.A.!

Safe? Not Ansari

Jon Stewart's Rallies, Including One In L.A., Help Restore Comedy Central's Ratings

Ted SoquiComedy Central's ratings cup runneth over.​ See Ted Soqui's slideshow from the L.A. rally here. Call it the "Rally to Restore Ratings." Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear," which was based in Washington, D.C. and had a satellite event at L.A.'s MacArthur Park Saturda ... More >>

Attention, Colbert Nation: Top 7 Thoughts For Food, Courtesy Stephen Colbert

Comedy Central​ When Stephen Colbert isn't busy campaigning to be President, having a treadmill named after him in outer space, or testifying on immigration reform on Capitol Hill, he takes a few moment to address our favorite topic: food. In a recurring segment called "Thought For Food," Col ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY BOY! DOUG STANHOPE

DOUG STANHOPE

DOUG BENSON: MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY BOY!

Did An Episode Of 'South Park' Inspire New York Car Bomb?

South Park Studios​Authorities are looking into the possibility that a recent episode of Los Angeles-based animated comedy series South Park that was deemed insensitive to Islam by some Muslims could have inspired the failed car bomb in New York's Times Square over the weekend. "This vehicle ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL! MELINDA HILL

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 >>

LUENELL NEEDS KATHY GRIFFIN TICKETS

ROLLING IN THE NILES

Two Pairs of Nuts, To Be Exact

Just What We Need . . .

CRACK UP, WRITE A CHECK, GO HOME

Comic Demetri Martin on Important Things

Like trees, deserts and his yia yia

Special Jury Duty Edition! (Van Nuys Courthouse)

What to do in L.A., May 2-8

Striking TV: DVD Sets for a Season Without Writers

Berlin Alexanderplatz, Twin Peaks, Johnny Carson, Larry Sanders and more

Flavor Flav in the Roaster

“How do you embarrass a crackhead?”

Captain Hook and His Big Organ

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Can't We All Not Get Along?

Sarah Silverman finally gets her own Comedy Central show. Plus, some of our favorite Silverman clips.

Jericho's Ghosts

PBS’s newest man of Mystery!

Fucking and Sucking

Sarah Silverman

I'd Like to Thank...

Nellies On Fire

Artsters, Juggy D and the Last Bricktops

Danger-Humor

The sick, cathartic pleasures of the put-on kid show Wonder Showzen, plus the closet-anarchist boys of Stella

Echoes of the Fall

The Smithsonian’s September 11 collection

Petting the Koala

Audiences just want to cuddle enigmatic Mitch Hedberg

Laugh Factory

Edited by Kateri Butler

Dopemen

Getting a fix on Scarface and Clipse

The Merry Prankster

How a performance terrorist found his calling

Wiggin' Out

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Spurt

Toon Out

The Second Annual World Animation Celebration