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Tag Archives: featured
Mean Cuisine
Before the Emmy-winning The Colbert Report, before the Emmy-winning The Office, before even the Emmy-winning (and Canadian Comedy Awards award-winning) The Daily Show, comedy icons Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell appeared together in this sketch. Whether it’s a commentary on people working jobs that aren’t a good fit or on the disgustingness of food (which is pretty gross when you think about it), we’ll leave that for the academics to decide.
Categorized as Smack, TV
Tagged Dana Carvey, dinner for schmucks, feature, featured, stephen colbert, steve carell, the colbert report, the daily show, The Dana Carvey Show
Crash and Fern
Zach Galifianakis‘ identical twin brother interviews thespian, two time Oscar-winner and guy who is doing stuff in Haiti, Sean Penn. Although Penn may be as enigmatic as a Mystic River, watch Galifianakis Milk this interview for all it’s worth.
Categorized as Web Shorts
Tagged Betweent Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, feature, featured, Funny or Die, Sean Penn, Zach Galifianakis
This Week’s Guest Decider: Lee Camp
This week’s “Guest Decider,” is comedian Lee Camp. Lee Camp’s rapid-fire, angrily opinionated thought-provoking stand-up recently garnered him a spot in Paul Provenza’s bestselling book of groundbreaking comics Satiristas! Camp is also a contributor to The Onion, The Huffington Post, and has performed stand-up at events featuring Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Al Gore. He was recently on Showtime’s series “The Green Room with Paul Provenza.” Camp was called one of the best New Faces at the Montreal Comedy Festival; he starred in Comedy Central’s “Fresh Debate ’08″; and he’s done comedic commentary on PBS, E!, SpikeTV, MTV and ABC’s “Good Morning America.” Lee also provided catharsis for millions of people when he went live on Fox News and called the network a “parade of propaganda and a festival of ignorance.” You can check out more of Camp’s stuff and learn where he’s performing at LeeCamp.net.
Categorized as Smack
Tagged feature, featured, Fox News, Lee Camp, Paul Provenza, Satiristas!, The Huffington Post, The Onion
Conannouncement!
In case you didn’t hear, Conan O’Brien is no longer host of The Tonight Show; instead it’s some guy who actually manages to make Conan’s Tonight Show predecessor look funny. But all joking aside (We love you Jay!) Conan’s new TBS show starts soon, and he’s just announced the name (on YouTube, no less). We don’t want to give anything away, so let’s just say it’s not not what you might think it would be.
Categorized as Smack, Web Shorts
Tagged conan, Conan O'Brien, feature, featured, The Tonight Show
Tricks Are For Kids
The Kids in the Hall, not to be confused with New Kids on the Block, also happened to be one one of the great all-boy groups of the early 90s. And, not unlike New Kids on the Block, they’ve staged a reunion. But instead of a 48 city arena tour, The Kids in the Hall have put together a new series for IFC, Death Comes To Town, currently airing. Incidentally, which one is your favorite? Mine was always Joey McIntyre, um, I mean Dave Foley. Here’s a clip from the new show…
Categorized as TV
Tagged Bruce McCulloch, Dave Foley, Death Comes to Town, feature, featured, IFC, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, New Kids on the Block, Scott Thompson, The Kids in the Hall
Teaching An Old Dog New Tricks
We all love dogs. Except for people who don’t (and do they really count as “people?”). But what’s the one thing that sucks the most about dogs? No matter how much you train them otherwise, at some point, they always die. Well, according to this video from the UCB LA’s The Midnight Show (Directed by Peter Atencio, Written by Heather Anne Campbell), which seems reliable, that may be a thing of the past.
Categorized as Web Shorts
Tagged feature, featured, Heather Anne Campbell, James Pumphrey, Michael Busch, Peter Atencio, The Midnight Show, UCB, Upright Citizens Brigade
This Week’s “Guest Decider”: Giulia Rozzi
Giulia Rozzi is a NYC based comedian, actress, writer and overall awesome gal originally from Boston. Her very personal, blunt, and animated comedy has earned her the honor of being a Boston Comedy Festival finalist, one of The Frisky’s “Top 15 Comediennes You Should Be Laughing At” and two ECNY “Best Female Stand Up” nominations. She has appeared on MTV, VH1, Italian MTV, CNN, Jimmy Kimmel and recently co-starred in the independent film “Party Like It’s A Verb.” Every month Giulia and longtime friend Margot Leitman co-host the popular and highly acclaimed sex-themed storytelling show Stripped Stories at the UCB Theatre in NYC and annually in cities across the country. As a writer Giulia blogs for Lemondrop and Shoestring Magazine, she has written for MTV, Playgirl, NY Press, Lifetimetv, Gawker, The Huffington Post, and was a contributor and associated editor of the anthology “Mortified: Real Words, Real People, Real Pathetic.” This month she released her first comedy album “A Very Petty Name” (Live at Comix), which is available on iTunes or Amazon. More at giuliarozzi.com
NY Roast
You know those annoying NY Times ads about which section brought some annoying yuppie couple together and which section keeps you hip to youth culture and blah, blah, blah? Now comic Jordan Carlos presents the NY Post version. NY Post: the #1 paper for people who don’t like their news to be smarter than them. Co-starring Jesse Ruuttila, Katharine Heller, Lynne Rosenberg, Mary Catherine Green, Matthew Maragno, Chris Grace, Jamie Kilstein, Liz Miele, Wil Petre, Molly Knefel, John Knefel, Dan St. Germain, Sean O’Connor, Charlie Kasov and Jay Nog. (Warning: Adult Language)
Categorized as Web Shorts
Tagged Charlie Kasov, Chris Grace, Dan St. Germain, feature, featured, Jamie Kilstein, Jay Nog, Jesse Ruuttila, John Knefel, Jordan Carlos, Katharine Heller, Liz Miele, Lynne Rosenberg, Mary Catherine Green, Matthew Maragno, Molly Knefel, New York Post, New York Times, sean o'connor, Wil Petre
Best Behavior
In this clip from prank show Girls Behaving Badly, comediennes Chelsea Handler and Kira Soltanovich disprove the theory (or is it just a sitcom title?) that three is company. Catch Kira Soltanovich at the next SmackDown: The Best of ComedySmack, our monthly live show at Carolines where we feature our favorite acts. This month’s show, on Weds. Sep.1st (9:30pm), is hosted by Giulia Rozzi (Stripped Stories) and includes Christian Finnegan (Comedy Central Presents), Todd Barry (Lucky Louie), Jamie Lee (Last Comic Standing), Jon Friedman (The Rejection Show), Lance Weiss (Ghandi, is that you?) and video group The Full Ginsburg. (Call Carolines at 212-757-4100 for reservations and use code word “SMACK” for $5 tickets)