Tina Fey

Picture Getting Clearer With Each Losing Day and Don Mattingly Needs to Go

You don't need me hurling the "nice guys finish last" cliché anywhere near this post, but it's utterly unavoidable after the latest series of Dodger disappointments and I just can't help it. So apologies all around. Yes, Don Mattingly is a good guy, ostensibly supported "to a man" in the clubhouse ... More >>

As Live Talks Los Angeles Turns Three Years Old, Its Founder Explains What Makes a Great Conversation

Ronald Reagan may have been the Great Communicator, but Ted Habte-Gabr is obsessed with conversation. Habte-Gabr produces Live Talk Los Angeles, a series of events that pair interesting names -- often of the literary world -- for sit-down interviews in front of hundreds of people. His first event ... More >>

Improv Olympic Creates a Comedy Festival That's...Scripted?

Over the weekend, Improv Olympic became a Scripted Olympic. From Thursday through Sunday, Hollywood's iO West Theater hosted its first annual L.A. Scripted Comedy Festival, featuring a collection of talent from across the country showcasing sketch, variety, storytelling, stand up and short films. ... More >>

Admission Review: Tina Fey's Great, But the Film Doesn't Have the Marks

A Three-Stage Comedy Circus

Carl Reiner on His New Memoir, Holding Steve Martin's Baby and His Love of Zooey Deschanel

See also: *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in L.A. *12 L.A. Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week He tweets. He Tivos. He's excited about the video components included with the eBook version of his new, self-published memoir, I Remember Me. Carl Reiner may be 90, but the ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 1/7 - 1/11

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Among the topics? Secret burger menus, fair food, ostrich omelets and plenty of old guys in the desert." Top 5 Huell Howser Food Episodes: In Memoriam. "4. Eat a meatball sub any time someone thanks Harvey Weinstein." Tina ... More >>

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's Drinking Game for the Golden Globes

Those zany gal pals Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have come up for a drinking (and eating and stripping) game for the 70th Annual Golden Globes, which they will be hosting this Sunday on NBC. As Fey told the Hollywood Reporter, "When you get a bunch of people in a room who don't eat much, and you give th ... 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.

Make Us Laugh, Funny Girl!

Chaos Muppet Restaurants vs. Order Muppet Restaurants

A few weeks ago, Dahlia Lithwick wrote a piece for Slate in which she set forth The Muppet Theory of Humanity: We all can essentially be described as a Kermit or a Miss Piggy, a Bert or an Ernie, or, more generally, an Order Muppet or a Chaos Muppet. She applied this theory to everyone from Chief J ... More >>

Elite Troupes

Jersey Shoresical: A Frickin' Rock Opera Arrives in L.A., Co-Written by Danny Franzese (aka the Gay Friend in Mean Girls)

You probably know him as Damian, the flamboyant scene stealer from the 2004 film Mean Girls, where various quips ("I want my pink shirt back") earned Danny Franzese a modest cult following consisting primarily of tweens and queens. While his film cohorts Tina Fey and Lindsay Lohan graduated to 30 Ro ... More >>

Emmy Nominations Day: 10 Standard Types of Reactions From Award Show Nominees

Tina Fey got nominated this year! (Or at least we assume -- we haven't checked yet)​ Guess what? HBO dominated the Emmys again. Another way the Emmys are predictable: the nominees' reactions. Or at least how they convey their reactions. We don't really know people's real reactions -- we know ... More >>

This Headline Was Entirely Improvised!

Donald Glover: He Says Whatever He Wants

Delivery Boys

SpongeBob and Stimpy: Q&A with Voice Actors Billy West and Tom Kenny

Tom Kenny (left) and Billy West​ You know them, but you don't know them: Live Talks Los Angeles, who brought us Tina Fey and Steve Martin for a chat recently, present An Evening of 1,000 Voices With Billy West and Tom Kenny. West is best known as the voice of Philip J. Fry on Futurama and Stim ... More >>

Tina Fey and Steve Martin Discuss Comedy, Palin and Fey's New Memoir Bossypants

Jena ArdellTiny Fey and Steve Martin share a few laughs with the audience.​ "The first thing I am going to do is something that Dave Barry, the great comedy writer, said never to do unless you have medical records from a doctor and a medical report from the hospital, and that is ask a woman i ... More >>

Oh Fey, Can You Slay

IF THESE WALLS COULD LAUGH

50 Ways New York City Pretends It's Not Shitty

Hate to break it to you​The New York patriots at the Village Voice news blog -- our counterpart on America's crappier coast -- have been tooting their own horn so loud lately that we heard it all the way over here in Los Angeles. So, re: 50 Reasons to Be Pretty Damn Euphoric You Live in New Y ... More >>

Bristol Palin Accused Of Using Political Connects To Advance On 'DWTS' Despite Crap Dance Moves

OK MagazineSecond-generation MILF in red​Tea Party mascot and walking pro-choice ad Bristol Palin can't seem to catch a break. First, Mama Palin's strict hockey-mom platform ruled out an abortion. Next, Bristol had to call it quits with baby daddy when the world found out she wasn't the only ... More >>

Top 10 Women With Fruit Names

We've brought you the Top 10 Men With Meat Names and the Top 10 Men With Salad Names. But what about women? And what about fruit? Well, now is the moment for both, as pomiculture and nomenclature come together for the debut female-themed edition of our "People with Food Names" series. Of course, the ... More >>

MEGAMIND 3-D

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL! CHELSEA PERETTI

The Populist: Date Night's Shawn Levy

From Yale drama to his latest film, there's more to this multiplex master than meets the eye

Movie Reviews: Women Without Men, The Square, After.Life, Phyllis and Harold

Also, La Mission, Godspeed, Mid-August Lunch and more

"BENINCASA" IS A FUNNY NAME FOR AN AGORAPHOBIC

61st Emmys: Deja Vu All Over Again

Winner-watching with cynicism and subversion

“Bitch Is the New Black” at Honor Fraser

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

Snarking the Awful Golden Globes

... because they have zero integrity and credibility

Top 10 New TV Shows From 2008: Hillary & Barack, Gavin & Stacey, Bernard & Doris

The way we watched

Over the Weekend: Absinthe Among the Dead, Family Guy C.R.A.P., Bruce McCulloch Comedy, The Roots Live

It's funny -- every weekend in Los Angeles we promise ourselves we're going to relax, do chores, catch up on some sleep, but it never happens. Monday arrives and we're more exhausted than when the weekend began. I guess if your Friday night kicks off with The Roots live at the Palladium and an absin ... More >>

It's Her Party: Sarah Palin Rallies Fans in Carson

Jon Voight appears in support, declaring, "I'm blessed to have met John McCain"

NBC's Kath & Kim: Glamour Girls Gone Kitsch

The other O.C.

Gettin' Wiggy Wit It

It's a hairy Halloween; why don't you just comb over?

Garrett Morris

Mr. Saturday Night

Nobody’s Baby

Tina Fey’s stillborn surrogate- mommy comedy

Movie Reviews: Body of War, Four Minutes, Shotgun

Plus, Baby Mama, Deception and other April 25 releases

Will i Am Offers Obama Handjob Via Campaign Song

As the voters of Texas, Rhode Island, Vermont and Ohio filed to the polls yesterday to help decide the Democratic Party's nomination for President, will.i.am., the capitalization averse mastermind of the Black Eyed Peas continued his steadfast efforts to help elect Senator Barack Obama of Illinois ... More >>

Christina Applegate Erases Bundy Past

Samantha Who?

Mothers, Gangsters and the Usual Boobs at the Emmys

Shout outs and murmurs

Battle of the Network Stars

It’s East Coast 30 Rock against the West Coast heavyweights of Studio 60

Letters

Bad Girls

Women critics in sexually retro America

Less Sugar, More Spice

Mean Girls, though entertaining, could be meaner

The Year in Media

I'm sorry Momma

Desert Foxes