Abercrombie & Fitch's CEO might want only "cool, good-looking people" to wear his brand's clothes, and his stores' anti-plus size policy is definitely making people upset this week. Except the most popular response so far — getting back at A&F by handing out its clothes to homeless people and filming them for all the Internet to see — isn't exactly the answer.
The entertainment industry's looking pretty experimental these days, with the announcement of a new five-day-long comedy festival on Twitter. Yes, there is a hashtag involved.
While it can be tough to keep track of the actually exciting news amidst all the panels and tweets from both the interactive and film parts of the festival, well, there might be a Trainspotting sequel! And people have seen the new Arrested Development episodes now!
The criticism is still raining down on the Oscar host — "sexist" and "racist" and "worst ever" are not uncommon from all over today. But was he funny? Some professional funny people seem to think so.
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With nine days to go until Election Day, political satirists are doing everything they can to squeeze every last laugh out of the campaigns, but Mitt Romney refuses to be the butt of anybody's joke.
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What irked us so much about Ben and Kate wasn't so much Ben and Kate as a standalone show, per se, but rather the bigger whole that it represents. Meaning, boy oh boy are we getting sick of these single-camera comedies about quirky people doin' quirky things.
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If it the business model isn't broke, don't fix it. Just copy it, like Aziz Ansari did today, riffing off of fellow comedian Louis C.K.'s million-dollar idea.
Comedian Louis C.K.'s bold "experiment" to produce a concert video and only make it available online has paid off handsomely, as he announced that he turned a profit on the special in just 12 hours.
... is pretty much every woman, according to recent discussions of women and comedy
Cats, Somalis, Republicans and Utahans make Sept. 19 a special, tiresome day
Someone on a message board for al-Qaeda sympathizers had called for his tongue to be cut out
Paul Rudd gets most of the dialogue, but the producer's slow burn is what registers
Why the video of Hanks dancing isn't as surprising as the Web thinks it is
Pitchfork posted the interview the morning Ryan Dunn died in a car accident
On the campaign trail, he pretends waitresses are grabby, tells a corny joke
That's out of the 28 comedy acts performing at the festival this year
Not that their concerns will stop it from making a ton of money this weekend
How much? "A big, big number" after taking in $10.4 million last night
A comedy tiff over who coined,"Afterbirthers demand to see Obama's placenta"
The Webby Award nominees were announced today
Critics thrilled funny TV writer also funny book writer
He especially disliked Vice President Joe Biden's pre-speech backslapping
Two weeks after quake, a series of Twitter puns is getting laughs in Japan
His cameo in 30 Rock wins approval, self-referential as it was
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