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+Photos Television | April 11, 2012

Eye Jabs & Head Raps: Rare Behind-the-Scenes Photos of The Three Stooges

By Josh Sanburn and Yumi Goto

In anticipation of the Farrelly Brothers' Three Stooges, TIME looks back at the original wise guys.

+Movies | March 29, 2012

Before Anchorman 2: Top Ten Will Ferrell Movies

By Stephanie Abrahams
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The comedy sequel is finally in the works. To celebrate, we look back at the funny man’s best films. Do you agree with our choices?

+Video Music | March 27, 2012

Tenacious D Is Back, With a Little Help From Their Friends

By Megan Friedman

Jack Black and Kyle Gass are returning with a new album and tour. But is there still room for a hard-rocking parody in 2012?

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Tuned In+Television | January 18, 2012

Late Show Fires Comedy Booker, Revives the Are-Women-Funny Debate (Sigh)

By James Poniewozik
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Letterman’s now-ousted booker said that too many women comics were trying to act like men, rather than being “authentic.” What does that even mean?

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Tuned In+Television | December 14, 2011

Louis CK Wins the Internet (and a Bet on Human Decency)

By James Poniewozik

The comedian gambled that he could sell a video for $5 online without copy restrictions, and people would step up and do the decent thing. Shockingly—and against a theme of his own comedy—they did.

+Movies | October 25, 2011

Lunchtime Movie Matinee: Musical Mayhem, Courtesy of the Blues Brothers

By Steven James Snyder
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It’s the lunch hour and we want to help you waste some of your precious free time. Watch the first in our daily series of afternoon movie clips.

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | March 15, 2011

Gilbert Gottfried and the Rise of Self-Twimmolation

By James Poniewozik

If you take a guy known for making outrageous jokes—like his notorious remarks at the Friars Club three weeks after 9/11—and hire him as the voice of your adorable duck mascot, you’re taking a risk. Particularly if you’re an insurance company, and you do business that may directly involve enormous tragedies. Aflac discovered that this [...]

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Tuned In+Music | February 8, 2011

Musical Comedy: Every Comic in World (Almost) in New Pornographers Video

By James Poniewozik

I try to make a point of not using this blog to simply post random videos from bands that I like. But I feel I can make an exception when the video (for The New Pornographers’ “Moves”) includes Paul Rudd, Bill Hader, Donald Glover, much of the Daily Show cast, Julie Klausner as Neko Case [...]

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Tuned In+Uncategorized | September 1, 2010

Fixing Emmy, Part 2: The Case Against Comedy and Drama

By James Poniewozik

Earlier this morning I posted about the broadcast networks’ hopes to solve the problem of their not winning enough Emmys, by any means short of actually making better shows. (Let’s not get crazy here!) Now let’s take a minute to look at an Emmy problem that actually might need fixing. Namely: does it still do [...]

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Tuned In+July 19, 2010

Dead Tree Alert: And Now, Your Moment of Men

By James Poniewozik

I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to post any more Dead Tree Alerts here. Recently, TIME stopped posting full articles from its print edition online, requiring people to buy the print or iPad editions of the magazine to read the pieces. There is—as of now—no option to buy articles or issues [...]

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Tuned In+October 2, 2009

Dead Tree Alert: Comedy Comes Back

By James Poniewozik

Sunday night, the Seinfeld-reunion arc starts on Curb Your Enthusiasm, and to greet it, I have an essay in the print TIME about the state of TV comedy 11 years later—which surprisingly, for once in a long while, is pretty good. For once in a long time, most of the best new series this year [...]