Tag: Comedy

  • Funny (real) People

    Funny People is not exactly a comedy. Itโ€™s not really a drama or romance either. Itโ€™s a little combination of all those things and thatโ€™s what makes it feel so real. In a far more true-to-life plot than anything the writers of Entourage could ever dream of, Seth Rogen plays Ira Wright, a struggling comedian…

  • Whatever Works really works

    Whatever Works is the new comedy from writer/director Woody Allen. The film takes place in New York, (did you honestly think a Woody Allen movie could take place anywhere else? Fuggetaboutit!), with Larry David as the lead, Boris Yellnikoff.

  • รœber funny or รผber gay, Brรผno gets ballsy in America

    What can be said about Sasha Baron Cohenโ€™s latest โ€œdocumentaryโ€ Brรผno? With bolder quips and tricks, Cohen continues what he does best in films based on characters he originated in Da Ali G Show.

  • Away We Go will outlast summer blockbusters

    Sam Mendes strikes gold again with his latest film, Away We Go, starring John Krasinski (TVโ€™s The Office) and Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live) and written by Dave Eggers (upcoming script for the movie version of Where the Wild Things Are) and Vendela Vida.

  • Trashwire sits down with Arj Barker at Comedy Works in Denver

    Arj Barker is best known in the USA for his role as Dave on the HBO series Flight of the Conchords, but he has also been doing stand up for over a decade and has a huge following in Australia. He has an animated online series called โ€œArj and Poopyโ€ that has been described as,…

  • Bradley Cooper on ‘The Hangover’ and evolving comedy

    Bradley Cooper on ‘The Hangover’ and evolving comedy

    Bradley Cooper has fittingly described his new film The Hangover as โ€œBachelor Party meets Mementoโ€ because the comedy takes the familiar storyline of inebriated pre-matrimony adventures and flips it around with the complexity of Christopher Nolanโ€™s acclaimed mystery. Instead of showing the drunken debauchery, the story focuses on the three main characters waking up to…

  • Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Version

    Thanks to Keith for showing me this!

  • Drunk History featuring Danny McBride

    Since I posted the episode with Michael Cera, I thought it only fitting to post this one, starring Danny McBride and narrated by Jen Kirkman. Drunk History vol. 3 – Featuring Danny McBride from Danny McBride

  • Twitter in Real Life

    See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. Thanks to Amy (AKA @DigitalRoyalty) for tweeting the link to this video

  • Chuck Vs. The Chopping Block: How creative television isn’t given a chance

    Chuck Vs. The Chopping Block: How creative television isn’t given a chance

    As I sit on the couch with my fiancรฉ, sifting though bevy of reality shows and soap operas on our DVR, I wonder to myself how television has come to this. Now, I’m not saying that reality shows are the death of television, if I were I’d be one of the pallbearers who every Tuesday,…


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