COMEDY GENRES

Should Comedians Be Pop Culture Experts?

March 28, 2012

Pop culture.  It’s frickin’ everywhere.  It’s like too frinkin’ everywhere.  Who could keep up with it all?  No one.  We have lives and dreams and goals and other people we know.  But mention that you have no idea what happens in the Hunger Games and people look at you like you’ve never heard of bread. [...]

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Why Aren’t There More Female Comedians

March 20, 2012

We’ve made it to 200 episodes and we’re celebrating by trying to get to the bottom of a major comedy question: Why aren’t there more female comedians?  Unless you are a jerk face you know that women are just as funny as men, but there is no denying the fact that empirically there are way [...]

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Does Eddie Murphy Still Get Into The Comedy Hall Of Fame?

March 14, 2012

If the Comedy Hall of Fame was a thing* there was a time that Eddie Murphy would be a lock.  I mean, come one.  Trading Places, Beverly Hills Cop, Coming To America, SNL, Raw.  But that all ended in 1994.  Since then he has brought us Norbit, Meet Dave, The Adventures Of Pluto Nash and [...]

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The Wonders Of Pilot Season

March 7, 2012

That time is upon us again.  Pilot season.  A period of time filled with wonder, possibilities and like 50 shows that will never see the light of day.  This week we look at some of the potential comedy shows on the horizon and if they should be allowed to go from show zygote to full [...]

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Millennials – The Comedy Generation

February 22, 2012

When you hear “The Voice of a Generation”  you think Dylan or Nirvana (depending on how old you are).  But for the younger generation they’ll being saying Seinfeld or Galifianakis.  A Comedy Central report came out recently saying that for the first time the younger generation (okay the younger male generation) is increasingly defining themselves [...]

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The 80′s – The Golden Age of Comedy Movies?

February 13, 2012
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Name a classic comedy movie and odds are it was made in the 80′s.  Go ahead.  Try it…….  See.  We told you. But what was so special about the 80′s?  What made it the perfect storm decade for funny people?  Could Steve Guttenburg ever rule any other decade like he did back then?  Was Johnny [...]

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Reviewing Key & Peele

February 6, 2012
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Comedy Central brought sketch comedy back to the network last week with launch of Key and Peele.  Let’s be honest we were a little scared it was going to be MadTV light.  MadTV full strength wasn’t even that good.  So how did Key and Peele turn out?  Surprisingly pretty damn good. In this week’s episode [...]

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