Andy Kaufman

Shaqspearean Comedy

Ten Rock Star Members of the Dead at 27 Club

​Amy Winehouse's death has inspired numerous discursive threads, including speculation about her yet-to-be-revealed cause of death, the paparazzi (and YouTube's) hyperdocumentation of her slow unraveling, and the deep tragedy of the young singer's thorny personal life. In the face of much morbid, ... More >>

Community theater comedy: Just the Funny and Confessions of a Jewish Shiksa

​Amy Winehouse's death has inspired numerous discursive threads, including speculation about her yet-to-be-revealed cause of death, the paparazzi (and YouTube's) hyperdocumentation of her slow unraveling, and the deep tragedy of the young singer's thorny personal life. In the face of much morbid, ... More >>

Foxy Shazam

​Amy Winehouse's death has inspired numerous discursive threads, including speculation about her yet-to-be-revealed cause of death, the paparazzi (and YouTube's) hyperdocumentation of her slow unraveling, and the deep tragedy of the young singer's thorny personal life. In the face of much morbid, ... More >>

Come See Famous Artist Cory Arcangel Do Standup Comedy at MOCA This Saturday

via myspace.com/coryarcangel​Working out of Brooklyn, Cory Arcangel first earned critical props for art work like 2002's Super Mario Clouds, a modded Nintendo cartridge that played nothing but a constant stream of pixilated nebulousness. (Check out the jump for a video.) And ever since, he's made ... More >>

Victoria Jackson Denies Tea Bagger Shtick is Andy Kaufman-like Performance Art

​Last time we came across our old friend Victoria Jackson we wondered if her recent embrace of all things Tea Party and claims that President Obama was a communist Anti-Christ was "all some big performance art piece." Well, Wonkette interviewed the Miami-native and asked her if she was doing an "A ... More >>

The Conchords: The Geekiest Rock Stars Ever

Last Night: Flight of the ConchordsBetter Than: All the YouTube videos fit to click.By now, fans of HBO's off-kilter, musical comedy series Flight of the Conchords know that its number is up. The Conchords themselves, the duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, walking a nearly-flawless tightrope ... More >>

Cellar Beware

Last Night: Flight of the ConchordsBetter Than: All the YouTube videos fit to click.By now, fans of HBO's off-kilter, musical comedy series Flight of the Conchords know that its number is up. The Conchords themselves, the duo of Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie, walking a nearly-flawless tightrope ... More >>

Lowest Forms

Boo hoo! Some writer we’ve never heard of made fun of us! Boo hoo hoo!

Lost & Found & Hope & Greed

Who in his right mind would bid hundreds of dollars for an abandoned suitcase, contents unknown?

BEST LOCAL BOY MADE GOOD

Ben Greenman

Hairy Plotters

Ignoble savages go ape in Human Nature

Amazing Grace

Three years after his death, Jeff Buckley continues to cultivate mystery

Good Cop, Bad Cop

Me, Myself & Irene

The Other Merry Pranksters

Sixties duo Coyle and Sharp revisited

Kulchur

How low could you go in 1999?

Ego Trip

Man on the Moon

Inside Feature

Man on the Moon

Talk Rodeo

Man on the Moon