Top Gear: The only thing funny about this clapped out show is the £14million …
Hello everyone. It’s that time of the week when I tell you why Top Gear is a clapped out, way past its sell-by date load of old drivel… and you all say it’s the greatest programme in TV history....
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Mario & Luigi: Dream Team Trailer is All About the Funny
By Joey Davidson | July 19, 2013 + Share Nintendo has released a brand new trailer for Mario Luigi: Dream Team, and this time things are about the jokes. From a block insinuating that, in Luigi’s...
View ArticleTwo one-act plays of ‘Bernice/Butterfly’ offer humor and surprising twists
In each of Nagle Jackson’s plays (he calls them a “two-part invention”), what initially appears to be a sort of meta-theatrical comedy turns out to be something else entirely. Each play takes a...
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Funny Money Or New Economy? Alternative Currency Raises Tax, Other …
Berkshares (Photo credit: Wikipedia) What if everything you knew about money was turned on its head? What if the U.S. dollars you carry in your wallet weren’t actually the currency of choice in your...
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Oprah, Funny or Die and the Grammys want to promote Obamacare
What do Oprah, Funny or Die and the Grammys have in common? All three, it turns out, have volunteered to promote Obamacare. Senior advisor Valerie Jarrett hosted a meeting Monday with a star-studded...
View ArticleThe Humor in ‘Orange Is the New Black’ is What Makes It a Good Drama
Time writer James Poniewozik asked a good question on Twitter recently: which category will Netflix put up Orange Is the New Black for next year’s Emmys, drama or comedy? The show expertly weaves...
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Review: ‘The To Do List’ Is Fantastically Feminist And Ferociously Funny
Box Office Take: Look, unless this film is seen by basically zero people over the course of its theatrical run, home viewing debut, and cable lifespan, it will be profitable. It cost just $1.2...
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Are Americans Stupid? Don’t Be Funny, Says Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton first visited the U.S. in 1970. “Hair” was big on Broadway and he was dragged along by some nuns who wanted to get up and dance on stage. “That would have been my first encounter with...
View Article‘Absurd’ cooks up humor, pain in kitchen
CAMBRIDGE — Alan Ayckbourn’s “Absurd Person Singular” is set on three successive Christmas Eves, and by identifying them in the script as “Last Christmas,” “This Christmas,” and “Next Christmas,” the...
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video explains Zimbabwe’s election ‘chaos’
Zimbabwe is in the middle of early voting right now and, so far, the presidential election is not going too well. The above video, by Nigerian-British viral video-maker Ikenna Azuike, runs through it...
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‘The To Do List’: Aubrey Plaza and Bill Hader shine in funny, raunchy coming …
View full sizeBrandy (Aubrey Plaza, left) gets some frank sexual advice from her sister Amber (Rachel Bilson) in “The To Do List.” CBS Films Cosmo or Penthouse? Where would you turn for sexual advice?...
View Article‘Richard Shaw: New Work’: Humor streak at play
Forty-five years after he graduated with an MFA from UC Davis among funk art proponents, artist Richard Shaw can’t help but move with the twists and turns, the push and pull, of the contradictions...
View ArticleIt’s funny how well Steve Martin plays bluegrass
What would the Wild and Crazy Guy have thought of this? There he was Wednesday, Steve Martin, standing on the stage of the Riverside Theater, picking a banjo and playing some soothing bluegrass music....
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Electing Anthony Weiner Isn’t As Funny As It Sounds
<!– –> <!– –> Headline from a New York Daily News article a few weeks ago: Nathan’s Fourth of July champ backs hot dog Anthony Weiner for mayor Rim-shot! The event was the...
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Larry David credits Brooklyn for influencing his humor
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Now we know exactly where Larry David‘s humor comes from. Not just the borough or the neighborhood or the street, but the exact apartment. David was on a panel for TV writers...
View ArticleMatt Hagan tops NHRA Sonoma qualifying with 2nd-quickest pass in Funny Car …
SONOMA, Calif. – Matt Hagan raced to the qualifying lead Friday night in the NHRA Sonoma Nationals with a run that matched the second-quickest and sixth-fastest passes in Funny Car history. Hagan...
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Funny Wedding Photos From Our Readers
For every gorgeous, romantic, smiling photo from your wedding day, there’s another equally amazing (but less polished) picture of something weird, hilarious or just plain awkward taking place. These...
View ArticleRoyals pitcher Ervin Santana finds outlet for humor on Twitter
What started a flip remark by Royals pitcher Ervin Santana — that the All-Star Game add dodgeball for pitchers as a counter-point to the Home Run Derby — turned into another validation to the power of...
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Michael J. Fox: Parkinson’s is frustrating and funny
There’s nothing horrifying about having Parkinson’s, insists Michael J. Fox — no “gothic nastiness” to his affliction that is the basis for many jokes in his new eponymous sitcom debuting this fall on...
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NHRA Sonoma Nationals: Funny Car’s Matt Hagan switches gears by cattle …
Click photo to enlarge SONOMA — NHRA star Matt Hagan seems to have found the perfect balance in his life. After spending his weekends with his adrenaline pumping at deafening racetracks, the Funny Car...
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