Musical Comedy

First Annual New York Funny Songs Fest!

Barbara Holm | Posted 05.14.2012

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June 7-11 marks the first annual New York Funny Songs Fest: a musical comedy festival in the lower eastside of New York City. My ukulele and I can't wait to go!

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WATCH: Garfunkel And Oates Get Animated

Posted 04.12.2012

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Garfunkel and Oates, the musical comedy duo composed of Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, has released a video for their song "My Apartment's Very Clean...

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2.7 "Mushy Wushy" Melody Set Me Free (2012)

Kalup Linzy | Posted 04.06.2012

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Episode 2.7 "Mushy Wushy" Melody Set Me Free (2012) James Franco on WhoSay...

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WATCH: The Best Rap Song About Petty Crimes Ever

Posted 03.16.2012

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Living in New York City is expensive; to make it you have to cut some corners from time to time. This is the song about cutting those corners. M...

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WATCH: 'Sluts' Respond To Rush Limbaugh

Posted 03.08.2012

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New York-based musical comedy duo Reformed Whores have always had a lot to say about what it means to be a modern woman. So in the wake of Rush Lim...

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First Nighter: Musical Carrie Flickers But Doesn't Flame

David Finkle | Posted 05.02.2012

Movie-goers haunted by the horror flick's final image will likely be waiting for it and dismayed when they don't get it. As they leave the theater, they'll realized they've had to settle for a not terrible but no more than mediocre version of Stephen King's prom-night nightmare inducer.

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First Nighter: NBC's Smash Is No Such Thing, Leading-Lady Katharine McPhee Is

David Finkle | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Katharine McPhee, E. Y. Harburg, Broadway, Harold Arlen, Television Series, Brian D'Arcy James, Musical Comedy, Marilyn Monroe, 'Smash, Craig Zadan, Neil Meron, Super Bowl XLVI, Steven Spielberg, Christina Aguilera, Megan Hilty, Boston Conservatory, " NBC, Anjelica Huston, Entertainment News

She's landed a role in Smash, which is about -- if you haven't seen the boob-tube promos plugging its Feb. 6 kick-off the day after the Super Bowl XLVI kick-off -- a group of B'way vets and newbies readying a tuner based on Marilyn Monroe's life.

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Lysistrata Jones at the Walter Kerr Proves That Aristophanes Still Rocks!

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Walter Kerr Theater, Patti Murin, Lysistrata Jones, Josh Segarra, Musical-Comedy, Lysistrata, Arts News

Expect that you will be so carried away that your gloves will fall out of your pockets, your hat will end up between the seats, and of all things, my theater friend ended up with the shoe of a woman in the row behind us.

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WATCH: Garfunkel & Oates Sing 'David Wain Is Sexy'

Posted 12.07.2011

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Musical comedy duo Garfunkel & Oates plus David Wain equals the sexiest song ever, right? Well, no, but it is quirky, charming and inappropriate, ...

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The Biggest Comedian You've Never Heard Of

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 11.06.2011

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The self-described "part troll" and musical comedian Bill Bailey has sold out arenas, graced the airwaves of basically every major television show in ...

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WATCH: 'Weird Al's 'Alpocalypse' Tour Coming To Your TV!

Posted 10.08.2011

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Comedy Central has announced that it's teaming up with "Weird Al" Yankovic to present his first televised concert special in a decade. Filmed during t...

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EXCLUSIVE: Reggie Watts On The Origins Of His Unique Act

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.21.2011

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People tend to remember the first time they see Reggie Watts perform. His onstage persona is so uniquely his, so off-putting and hilarious and differe...

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The Enduring Satiric Genius of Tom Lehrer

Spencer Green | Posted 06.07.2011

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Satire -- let alone musical satire -- that actually hit hard was surprising at the dawn of the Eisenhower administration, but there was an audience ready to embrace it.

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WATCH: The Ballad Of Having Tiger Blood

The Huffington Post | Carol Hartsell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just when we thought we were out, Apollo Run pulled us back in. Look, we all want to stop talking, tweeting, blogging and thinking about Charlie Shee...

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WATCH: Most Ridiculous Safe Sex Campaign Ever

Posted 05.25.2011

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UK musical comedy act The Midnight Beast has some safe sex advice for the world; whether or not it's very good advice is up to debate: Something to re...

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WATCH: 'Sex Training' With Ninja Sex Party

Posted 05.25.2011

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If you've thought to yourself recently, "Why is everyone so negative? Why can't we occasionally focus on things that are positive and nice?" then we'...

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The Scottsboro Boys: New Kander-Ebb Musical, Old Kander-Ebb Formula

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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Time was, audiences went to musicals--more often called musical comedies then--to see famous entertainers sing great songs written by first-rate lyric...

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