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Have Yourself a Harry Shearer Christmas

Dick Jokes for Jesus: Comedy Bang Bang's Nativity Pageant Taught Us the True Meaning of Christmas

See also: *Our Slideshow on Comedy Bang Bang's Nativity Pageant *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles Some folks will tell you that the War on Christmas begins every Black Friday -- a day when faithless, mouth-breathing hordes descend upon shopping malls in an orgy of consumerism that ope ... More >>

Suburban White Fake Rapping Dads Are the Worst

Gangsta rap jokes are almost as old as gangsta rap itself, with seminal hip-hop comedies CB4 and Fear of a Black Hat dropping in 1994. There are probably earlier examples in song; indeed, short of hair metal, few musical genres are more ripe for parody. Since then gangsta rap gags have not abated, ... More >>

Q & A With Jelly Belly Inventor David Klein: On Getting His Jelly Belly Due, His New Line of Jelly Beans The Astro Pop Connection

If you've never heard of local candy maker David Klein, it's likely because the inventor of the Jelly Belly sold the rights the formula a few unfortunate years too soon -- perhaps not surprising for a guy who signs emails with dangling consonants ("thankssssssssssss"), talks like he is on a constant ... More >>

The Big Squeeze

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

*Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16

See also: *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music, be it rock, pop, dance, or rap, sprang from genres pioneered by black musicians, to be all caucasian about your songs is to, literally, betr ... More >>

Nerdy Nerd Nerdfaced Nerdery: Chris Hardwick and Peter Levin Launch Nerdist Channel on You Tube

Nerd. What was once a word used to assert adolescent alpha male dominance over the guy who would eventually become your boss is now a nearly complete empire run by the once-oppressed. Unlike the Habsburg, Incan or Qing, this one has its own channel on YouTube, complete with Weird Al , Neil Patrick ... More >>

'Weird Al' Yankovic Chats About Justin Bieber, Lynwood and Career Longevity, at Gallery 1988

The line stretched out the door and onto the balmy L.A. streets on Friday at Gallery 1988: Melrose, one of the two spaces set up by Jensen Karp to showcase pop culture-inspired art. Fans waited patiently for a chance to look at and buy work from "Is This Thing On? 2, The Weird Year," with with artis ... More >>

Victoria Jackson's Excellent Tea Party Adventure

The Funniest Third Thursday of the Month

Mary J. Blige, Larry Carlton, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Also, Peanut Butter Wolf, Lucy Woodward, Chromeo and others

Marc Maron on KCRW: LA Weekly's Ultimate Guide to the Top 10 Comedy Podcasts

Doug SadlerHost Howard Kremer, guest Zach Galifianakis and co-host Kulap Vilaysack fart up, err chart up the room on the podcast Who Charted?​ As the Buggles once forecasted in their 1980s pop single: "Video Killed the Radio Star." Today, it's more accurate to say that the podcast resurrecte ... More >>

Nine Things You Didn't Know About Weird Al

​Piece by Sam Bloch An Evening With "Weird Al" Yankovic The Grammy Museum 7-25-2011 Better Than... A lost evening on Wikipedia. After 30 years in the music industry, Lynwood's own "Weird Al" Yankovic sat down yesterday at LA Live's Grammy Museum for a candid look back at his career. Talking ... More >>

Will the Hilarious Lame Rap Video Ever Die? (Sorry, Whole Foods Parking Lot)

​ Will the hilarious lame rap video ever die? No offense to the L.A. guys who did the amusing "Whole Foods Parking Lot", or to the legendary Weird Al Yankovic, who has a new album out. But it's becoming clear that there's a formula to stuff like this. Would-be viral video stars are catching ... More >>

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Top 10 Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds of 2010 (Part 1)

Top Ten Bizarre and Awesome Musician Twitter Feeds

L.A. Animation Festival

Cartoons that make you go hmmm

Nightranger's Wild Ride

Margaret Cho Sings! New Foul-Video from Album "Cho Dependant"

Margaret Cho's sassy humor often veers on the nasty, even the scandalous, but what's really shocking about her new CD, Cho Dependent, out next week, isn't the explicitness of tunes like "Your Dick," "My Puss," and "Gimme Your Seed," or even the super-stellar list of musicians who join her on each tr ... More >>

Echo Park's accordion alchemists Very Be Careful Now in 3-D!!!!

Echo Park's accordion alchemists Very Be Careful Now in 3-D!!!!

Weird Al Yankovic & Madonna? The Steamy Affair Revealed

Weird Al Yankovic & Madonna? The Steamy Affair Revealed

Top 10 Songs About Food (But Not Buildings)

Books about food; art about food; movies about food. What about songs about food? Here's 10 songs to put on your foodie playlist. For this list--which is in no particular order--children's songs, instrumentals and songs using food as a euphemism for, em, other activities, have been excluded. Also d ... More >>

Wait. What? Jackson Browne, Inara George, and Fran Drescher at the Million Dollar Theater?

Wait. What? Jackson Browne, Inara George, and Fran Drescher at the Million Dollar Theater?

A Night of Pixies Covers: Black Francis, Weird Al, Tenacious D, Flea, Others Shred the Echoplex for "Winston Calling"

Little Winston Bertrand is not quite ten months old, and already he's received probably the most spectacular Christmas present any kid is likely to get this season: Last night's supreme lineup of alt-rock giants at the Echo, lead by the mighty Black Francis and The Pixies (well, three-quarters of th ... More >>

Wait. What? Weird Al Joins Black Francis, Tenacious D and more Tuesday for 'Winston Calling' Benefit

Wait. What? Weird Al Joins Black Francis, Tenacious D and more Tuesday 'Winston Calling' Benefit

Kids’ Rock

Bauhaus' David J. Wants To Be Your Wedding DJ (When Not Busy Helping Buddies Black Francis and Alan Moore)

Jenine De Shazer/www.davidjonline.com​Hey brides! We know you've been preparing your wedding for over a year, that everything is just like you imagined through your princessy girlhood, and that you've successfully altered yourself so you don't have to alter the Vera Wang. Still, wanna make you ... More >>

Muy Caliente Summer Edition

Movie Reviews: Burma VJ, Up, What Goes Up

Also, Departures, Drag Me to Hell, Dance Flick

SXSSXSW Day 4/Days Late (Pt. 1): On Rap/Rock, The Legacy of the Beasties, and Asher Roth Vs. The Knux

Other than freshman Delta Sigma Theta rushes at Cal-State Chico, no substrata of the American population has worse taste in rock than rappers. Sure, your little brother likes Fall Out Boy, but eventually, he's going to grow up and discover The Clash, then weed, then hopefully Junior Murvin and Lee ... More >>

Interview: Margaret Cho Talks "Fingerbang" at Largo

Austin YoungL.A. Weekly got a chance to talk with Margaret Cho about "Fingerbang," her upcoming March 24 musical show at Largo, before she headed over to South by Southwest last week. With an album of comedic songs in the works, Cho has been learning the guitar and working with an eclectic collectio ... More >>

The Breast of Times: Go Topless Protest Day

And other things to do in L.A., August 22-28

Fest-ish Fun

Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim

Dyspeptic duo

Hark! the Harry Shearer Sings

What to do in Los Angeles this week

All Hail the Cheese

A former Silversun Pickup transforms himself into a MILF-loving, Velveeta-sounding party man

Dancing On the Moon

Looking for the meaning of “alternative” with a pair of L.A.’s newest comedy impresarios

(Powdered) Sugar Walls

The Grammy parties and the pod people

Oops! Year-Ended Again!

McCartney Vetoed Weird Al's Chicken Pot Pie

Well, it's been a quiet few days, involving mainly indigestion and a marathon L Word viewing session (seven episodes, back to back). So here's a funny story I heard over Thanksgiving dinner which I thought I'd share... Weird Al Yankovic is hanging out someplace, mighta been the airport, and a fan c ... More >>

Run, DMC — Run!

The Knack get nasty; “Weird Al” conquers all

Last Chance for a Full Cincinnati*!

They're Just Men From Detroit

Hard Place see sparks in L.A.

Legends: Man vs. Cat

Makeup or Breakup

Master of the Game

Kool Keith of the no-rule school