Voice Choices
April 24, 2013Sarah schleps over to Jersey
Film
March 20, 2013Columns
January 23, 2013The comic wears her (dark) heart on her (gastric) sleeve
Voice Choices
December 5, 2012Eight holy nights
of Yo la Tengo
Voice Choices
September 12, 2012The weirdest comedy festival we know returns
Blogs
June 27, 2012In Take This Waltz, Michelle Williams gives a superb, textured performance as a married woman who's straying from the comfy confines of her domestic life, with potentially damaging results.
Sarah Silverman is also good as her sister-in-law, an alcoholic who occasionally gets loosened up enough to s ... More >>
Voice Choices
March 7, 2012The cast of Bob's Burgers
kicks off its second season
Blogs
March 5, 2012The Secret Policeman's Ball: Coldplay, Mumford & Sons, Russell Brand, Eddie Izzard, and many others
Radio City Music Hall
Sunday, March 4
Better than: Watching the Lohan Saturday Night Live on DVR.
Going to a live show that's actually meant to be broadcast on television can be a deadly propositio ... More >>
Blogs
November 3, 2011We often receive advance copies of forthcoming books here at the office. Today we got The Last Holiday, memoir of recently deceased Gil Scott-Heron, which is coming out in January 2012. These are the people quoted on the back: Chuck D, Eminem, and...Sarah Silverman.
Yes, Sarah Silverman.
Nick Mu ... More >>
Blogs
October 27, 2011Which is a sort of snarky way of saying that tickets for this year's Eight Nights of Hannukah celebration go on sale tomorrow at noon. For those unfamiliar with the tradition, every year Yo La Tengo brings together a bunch of friends whose identities "will not be divulged until the last possi ... More >>
Voice Choices
October 26, 2011New York Comedy Festival tortures us
Blogs
September 12, 2011Danielle Ate The Sandwich
Red Horse Cafe
Saturday, September 10
Better than: Sitting through YouTube comedy sketches.
Danielle Ate The Sandwich is a young woman in thick-rimmed glasses from Colorado. She plays acoustic guitar, and sometimes the ukulele. If you purchase her self-titled debut album, ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2011My newest book, Fork on the Left, Knife in The Back, has an official pub date of September 1, but one of my millions of fans (shut up) has alerted me to the fact that it's available on Amazon and in fact she was just told her copy shipped right away.
It's a preemie baby, and such a cutie!
Blogs
August 2, 2011Today's batch of femme joke hurlers are a smart and sassy gaggle of politically incorrect yet ultimately liberating beauties.
Your fave from these choices?
*Joan Rivers
Hilarious, scathing, on target, and up to date, she makes me wet myself every time.
*Wanda Sykes
A sassy motor mouth a ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2011Urlesque is officially closing up shop today. In an appropriate goodbye post, Jason Newman strung together the most popular memes of the last three years into a video backed by "The End of The Road" by Boyz II Men. Can you identify all of the memes in the video? Don't worry, we've got you covered wi ... More >>
Art
April 13, 2011A show of contemporary photos takes on our age's 'gilded toxicity'
Film
March 23, 2011Blogs
March 10, 2011
Food is becoming quite the trendy subject matter for web series these days. First there was news of Foodies, the web series that premiered last night and which seeks to ridicule all those who love sea urchin ceviche. Now College Humor has Always Open which features actor David Koechner chatting ... More >>
Columns
February 9, 2011I dance, I chat with Brooke Shields, I learn about female private parts
Columns
January 19, 2011Voice Choices
December 1, 2010Voice Choices
November 24, 2010Blogs
October 6, 2010A brief interlude between dirty jokes. Pics by Rob, more below.Marnie Stern
The Rock Shop
Tuesday, October 5
Better than: Most Sarah Silverman routines
Marnie Stern talks about vaginas a lot. Maybe you knew this. Tonight we are celebrating the release of her pretty great new album (self-tit ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 1, 2010A star-studded celebration of literature
Voice Choices
April 13, 2010Sarah Silverman shares her secrets
Blogs
October 15, 2009
Sarah Silverman's suggestion for feeding "grossy, sick, emaciated people from all over the world" is simple enough: Sell the Vatican. The Catholic League, a U.S. Catholic civil rights organization, has responded by denouncing the comedienne for her "obscene" and "filthy diatribe," adding that such ... More >>
Columns
September 29, 2009Blogs
July 16, 2009
Emmy-nominated The Family Guy featuring Emmy-nominated Seth MacFarlane.
For us the joy of the Emmy Nominations, announced this morning, is in the less-well-known categories. We see that there are only two shows, for instance, up for Outstanding Children's Nonfiction Program: Grandpa, Do You Know ... More >>
Columns
July 15, 2009Columns
June 3, 2009This barb doll keeps going and going and going
Voice Choices
October 22, 2008Find refuge in a few hours of certifiably funny stand-up
Blogs
October 3, 2008Voice Choices
April 1, 2008The truth about Janeane Garofalo
Voice Choices
March 25, 2008Comedian Brian Posehn’s pretty cool for a dork
Film
August 28, 2007News
January 30, 2007Blogs
January 23, 2007Film
January 23, 2007News
January 23, 2007NYC Life
January 16, 2007Talking vaginas, retards, testicles, dicks, douchebags, and George W. Bush with the Comedy Central star
Blogs
September 1, 2006NYC Life
August 29, 2006And other shocking revelations from this year's Video Music Awards
Columns
December 13, 2005Columns
November 8, 2005Film
November 1, 2005Film
November 1, 2005Film
July 19, 2005Columns
May 31, 2005Art
August 24, 2004NYC Life
May 28, 2002- More >>
