Tag archive: COMEDY

Celebrating ten years since the Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant comedy The Office first aired in the UK, the BBC has made all the episodes, including the popular Christmas specials, available on iTunes for the first time.  Back in 2001, The Office didn’t so much as burst onto British TV screens, as quietly shuffle in. It was a slow burner. The BBC gave it hardly any publicity and broadcast it on its less-watched BBC 2 channel. Then, over the… Read More

Pretty much everything you need to know about A Good Old Fashioned Orgy can be found right there in the title. As you might expect from a comedy with “orgy” in the title, there is plenty of raunch, sex jokes a’plenty and a film that doesn’t take itself too seriously. What you may not expect is a deep and thought-provoking tale of a man coming to terms with the sudden and brutal realities of growing up. And that’s a good thing,… Read More

I have a shocking announcement to make — you may want to sit down for this. Are you seated? Do you have a glass of water nearby just in case? OK, here goes: Most of the films being made these days are not all that original. I know, crazy right? What with the Remake-o-Tron going at full spin, and the 1849 goldrush-like pursuit of any property that may someday, perhaps possibly be made into a movie, the truly original screenplays seem to have died… Read More

You know what? Let's just say this right at the start: Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil could very well be the best horror-comedy made in a long, long time. In fact, the brilliance of director Eli Craig's first feature-length film can probably be summed up best by a line Alan Tudyk's (Firefly/Serenity, Transformers: Dark of the Moon) character, Tucker, tells his best friend and fellow hillbilly, Dale (played by Reaper and Rise of the… Read More

Pandora is best known for offering customized music streams tailored to individual users via Music Genome Project technology, wherein users rate music they hear based on a variety of factors, and then Pandora rummages through its collection for music exhibiting similar traits and serves it up. Now, Pandora is expanding the idea into comedy, launching individualized comedy stations that serve up humorous material based on listeners'… Read More

Your Highness is not exactly what you would call a smart comedy. It never veers too deeply into the realm of slapstick, nor does it rely too heavily on gimmicks (unless you count male genital jokes-of which there are many), but there is a very dumb undercurrent to it. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its funny moments—it definitely has some laugh out loud parts— it just won’t win over audiences that want depth. It will, however, be a good… Read More

Turner Broadcasting, already in the broadband channel game with its CNN Pipeline and GameTap offerings, has anounced it plans to roll out an origianl comedy broadband channel dubbed Super Deluxe in January, 2007. Super Deluxe will be a free, ad-supported broadband offering featuring original comedy content from both established and up-and-coming comedy stars, as well as community features and tools to build an interactive, social… Read More

Comedy Central and Apple today announced that episodes of

In this, the first outing for South Park on mobiles, IN-FUSIO will use its proven mobile gaming pedigree to offer a range of fun and addictive mobile games through Java(tm) and ExEn(r) channels. The licence agreement gives IN-FUSIO the right to offer mobile South Park games to 27 countries including all of Western and Eastern Europe as well as China and Japan. IN-FUSIO's first mobile incarnations of South Park's Cartman, Kyle,… Read More