comedy

  • Bob Odenkirk has his own short-form show on Super Deluxe, Derek & Simon: The Show. Why did I have to find this out from Wired magazine? (0) #
    4/24/2008
  • Bored by Borat links? Too bad. Here's a fascinating interview with the three writers behind Borat, with occasional guest appearances by Sacha Baron Cohen trying to drive around L.A. As opposed to the "unscripted" label often thrown about in articles about the movie, almost every joke and scene in the movie was scripted entirely, with the writers essentially creating flowcharts of action based on the reactions of the non-actor participants. (2) #
    1/10/2007
  • Stephen Colbert, last night on The Colbert Report:
    Could being a Nielsen family kill you? Watch the entire show to find out.
    (1) #
    8/22/2006
  • With her new movie Jesus is Magic coming out, Sarah Silverman is getting a shitload of press. But I like this article the best because it tries to get at the latest movement of offensive comedy:
    ...Silverman has become an important member of a guerrilla vanguard in the culture wars that we might call the "meta-bigots"—other members include the South Park kids, Sacha Baron Cohen's "Ali G", and the now-AWOL Dave Chappelle. The meta-bigots work at social problems indirectly; instead of discussing race, rape, abortion, incest, or mass starvation, they parody our discussions of them. They manipulate stereotypes about stereotypes. It's a dangerous game: If you're humorless, distracted, or even just inordinately history-conscious, meta-bigotry can look suspiciously like actual bigotry.
    (5) #
    11/10/2005
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