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  1. ‘Andy and His Grandmother’: Andy Kaufman Is Still Trying to Mess With You […]Andy Kaufman is definitely dead. He definitely died at the too-young age of 35 years old of lung cancer in 1984. But because he was a comedian […]
  2. Kanye West’s ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Pilot Was Pre-tty, Pre-tty FascinatingOne week after a clip of Kanye West’s failed HBO comedy pilot was discovered hiding in plain sight and subsequently taken down by the TV […]
  3. Vine 5 Film Festival: The Deal With LuggageVine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  4. ‘Where’s Rodney?’ Was One of the Many Questions Raised By ‘Where’s Rodney?’“One, Poochie needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine. Two, whenever Poochie’s not on-screen, all the other characters […]
  5. Follow Friday: @ThatRamosGirl (Vanessa Ramos)Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  6. ADHD Review: ‘Axe Cop’ Drools; ‘High School USA!’ is a Teenaged ‘South […]Sneak previews of Axe Cop and High School USA! will run Sunday at 9:30 and 9:45 p.m. eastern, respectively, with all due respect, on Fox. The […]
  7. Vine 5 Film Festival: Please Don’t Remind MeVine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  8. ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ Finished? No. Actually Starting Season 2Bless the ones with the death wishes, the ones that don’t bother to try to make the familiar and well-established beats as funny or funnier […]
  9. Follow Friday: @ThePatrickWalshEverybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  10. The 11 Best ‘Comedy Bang! Bang!’ Characters and ImpersonationsAnd so here we are, the day of the second season premiere of Comedy Bang! Bang!, the television show based on the funny podcast and former live […]
  11. Vine 5 Film Festival: Shopping, Dancing, Heartbreak, Death, and Money for […]Vine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  12. Judd Apatow and Amy Poehler’s ‘Sick in the Head’ Pilot Was a Real, Funny […]“I am in New York writing a pilot for the Fox network called Sick in the Head. It’s about a very young therapist with no life experience. The […]
  13. The Best of ‘Inside Amy Schumer’s First SeasonThe reason why Inside Amy Schumer seemed to work since the show premiered, and the reason why the entire first season ended up being a success, […]
  14. Vine 5 Film Festival: Welcome SylvioVine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  15. There Was No Winner To ‘The Goodwin Games,’ But It Was Fun to PlayIt’s very rare to see the actual lifespan of a television series equal the length of time its story naturally dictated it should last. Shows […]
  16. Season One of ‘Maron’ Should Be the First of ManyMaron had a lot stacked against it. The immediate, unfair comparisons to that great show on FX that is taking this year off, for one. The fact […]
  17. Follow Friday: @MikeScollinsEverybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  18. The Vine 5 Film Festival: This Isn’t the EndVine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  19. Found: James Urbaniak Telling a Joke On ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ […]Last October, as part of Vulture and UCB Comedy’s Pop Culture Memory Lane series, all-star viner and Venture Brothers star James Urbaniak […]
  20. ‘The Michael Richards Show’: We Can Cross ‘What If Kramer Was a […]“But I could have played Kramer for the rest of my life. That character would fit into every situation. There was a great universality to the […]
  21. Season Two of ‘Veep’ Was a Funny Story About Underdog Jerks“Would it be so hard for people not to be assholes?” - Selina Meyer Veep reminds me a lot of The Larry Sanders Show, and I’m sure I’m not […]
  22. The Vine 5 Film Festival: Eggs Over My Dad Abandoning MeVine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  23. Follow Friday: @longwall26 (Jason Miller)Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  24. ‘Save Me’ Was a Show. It Ended Last Night. It Was On For Four Weeks. You […]The story of Save Me is incredibly depressing, but not unprecedented. The Anne Heche comedy was in the works since 2010 as a potential property […]
  25. 9 Funny People Who Direct Great Music VideosQuick history lesson: if a music video was funny in the 1980s, it was probably completely unintentional. In the first half of the decade, the […]
  26. The Vine 5 Film Festival: The InternshipVine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  27. ‘My Mother the Car’ Tried Too Hard To Not Be ‘My Mother the Car’Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry in […]
  28. Follow Friday: @michelleisawolf (Michelle Wolf)Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  29. For Adam Scott: 10 More Potential ‘Greatest Events In Television History’Last night, The Greatest Event in Television History returned with its second installment, possibly to rectify the earlier mistake of […]
  30. The Vine 5 Film Festival: Drugs! Grumpy Kids! Imaginary Friends!Vine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  31. Follow Friday: @Kibblesmith (Daniel Kibblesmith)Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  32. ‘The Kings of Summer’ Is a Very Nick Offerman-y ThingThe Kings of Summer opens in select cities today. It will make its way to the other, non-select cities at some point soon. Patience is a […]
  33. The Vine 5 Film Festival: Loneliness, Death, and ExerciseVine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  34. And Now the Review of One of the Greatest Comedies of All Time Which Had […]The adjectives “interesting” and “weird” mostly exist to be placeholders for how you actually felt about something you couldn’t completely […]
  35. Follow Friday: @JustAboutGlad (Alison Stevenson)Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  36. The Vine 5 Film Festival: Has Anyone On Vine Ever Even *Seen* a Chicken?Vine is a toy from Twitter that challenges users to make the most profound work ever committed to video in exactly six seconds. Or at the very […]
  37. 12 More TV Comedies That Netflix Should Resurrect From the DeadFunded by the collective prayers and wishes of the internet hive mind, with possibly some help from dubious business practices in Iraq1, […]
  38. ‘The Goodwin Games’ Might Benefit From the Time LimitThe Goodwin Games premieres tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern on Fox. Check your local cable box for confirmation. Or you can just watch the episode […]
  39. Follow Friday: Jeff Lyons (@usedwigs)Everybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  40. ‘New Girl’s Season Two Was Great, No Thanks to the ParentsNew Girl concluded their excellent second season by making one of the world’s most awful songs briefly profound. “Where do we come from? Where […]
  41. 12 Funny People on Vine Worth Watching For More Than 6 SecondsIt has been a little over one hundred days since the Vine app made its debut. While Twitter (the owner of Vine) made the transition from a […]
  42. The 47 Greatest, Most Hilarious Moments in ‘The Office’In 2003, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s original and groundbreaking The Office concluded, ready to be duplicated by other countries, […]
  43. ‘How I Met Your Mother’: Still Occasionally Funny, Frustrating as Hell I… Well… Huh… So…we didn’t meet the mother last night in “Something New”, so much as we got a look at her cute, possibly too young […]
  44. Follow Friday: @EmilyMayaMillsEverybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  45. ‘Community’s Fourth Season: Time to Graduate?So here we are, waiting to hear if there will be a fifth season of Community, or if last night’s “Advanced Introduction to Finality” was the […]
  46. ‘Buddies’: Dave Chappelle’s ‘Home Improvement’ Spinoff That Actually Got […] Sometimes TV shows drag their unfunny, uninteresting, yet highly rated feet across our living rooms for years. “Who let this happen?” we cry […]
  47. Follow Friday: @briangaarEverybody fancies themselves as some sort of wizard that can conjure up laughter by a few strokes of a keyboard, but only a few tweeters are […]
  48. ‘Maron’ Is Maron Being MaronMaron premieres tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern on IFC. The second episode, “Dead Possum”, is available on YouTube. Marc Maron and Louis C.K. […]
  49. 10 Comedy Podcasts That Would Make Great TV ShowsTV is Dead, Long Live TV. While television is rapidly decaying on the business end of things, simultaneously it is consistently evolving, more […]
  50. ‘Inside Amy Schumer’ is Much Better Than Any Awful Pun I Can Make HereInside Amy Schumer premieres tonight at 10:30 p.m. eastern on Comedy Central. Gander at your local cable box’s listings to confirm this. The […]
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