The first U.S. trailer for Ricky Gervais' upcoming comedy The Invention of Lying has finally hit that series of tubes we lovingly call the Internets, and it looks pretty excellent. ... Read More

In another of an increasingly growing number of recent celebrity passings, comedian Fred Travalena died Sunday after battling cancer for seven years. Known as "the man of a thousand faces," Travalena ... Read More

The great Louis C.K. posted over in the forums at A Special Thing about the pilot he's shooting for FX this week. C.K. describes the show as "autobiographical" and suggests it ... Read More

Wow! What a fantastic week for new comedy releases. We can choose between Steve Martin's latest effort to sell his soul and tarnish his legacy, a straight-to-DVD family comedy starring ... Read More

So, that's it. The first-ever Just for Laughs Chicago Festival wrapped up after five days, over 70 shows and over 100 comedians. On the last day of the fest, comedy ... Read More

Day four of the Just for Laughs Chicago Festival was the first without any shows I was really looking forward to. I like Lisa Lampanelli and I think she's funny, ... Read More

Day Three of the 2009 Just for Laughs Chicago festival (I'm sorry...what I meant to say was "TBS Presents A Very Funny Festival: Just for Laughs Chicago") brought my most-anticipated ... Read More

Day two of the 2009 Just for Laughs Chicago Festival was an improvement over the first day, largely thanks to bigger, better lineups and some higher-profile shows. Of course, in ... Read More

The first-ever Just for Laughs Chicago kicked off Wednesday, and I was fortunate enough to take in a pair of shows at the Lakeshore Theater: Jon Lajoie's "Live as Fuck" ... Read More

Hey, everyone. It's new release Tuesday again, with another fairly spare offering of comedy releases. My favorite release today is the new volume of Three Stooges shorts. Even though we're ... Read More

I had the fortune of seeing 30 Rock star and "World Champion" Judah Friedlander at the Chicago Improv this weekend, and in the incredibly brief moments I was able to ... Read More

Hot off his hugely successful one-man, off-Broadway show Sleepwalk with Me (for which he received an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), comedian Mike Birbiglia has announced that he will embark ... Read More

Via Paul F. Tompkins' Twitter page: The newly-remodeled, Tompkins-hosted Best Week Ever will be disappearing off VH1's schedule until 2010, at which point the entire staff may or may not ... Read More

Anyone who doesn't understand why Patton Oswalt is my favorite stand-up comic ought to have been quickly silenced by his appearance on the new Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien last ... Read More

At this point, this year's Comedy Festival in Las Vegas better be something pretty spectacular, or I suspect the upcoming Just for Laughs Chicago Festival is going to put it ... Read More

Comedy Central has announced that it has renewed the stand-up/sketch series Important Things with Demetri Martin for a second season. In my initial review of the show, I remarked that it ... Read More

Another fairly slow week for new comedy releases. A couple of movies and the first stand-up special from Chicago comic Sebastian Maniscalco. I guess it's noteworthy that two of the ... Read More