This TV season, we lost “30 Rock” to early retirement, but there are still plenty of sharp, silly and surprising sitcoms on the broadcast airwaves. As the season comes to ...

I’ve spent seven years and 184 episodes waiting for the moment “How I Met Your Mother” has been building to. Every year, there are episodes that end with a montage of he...

Kyle Kinane is the voice of Comedy Central — he tells you what’s on the network during its promos — so you’d think he’d have no trouble landing his own show on the c...

I know enough about comedian Marc Maron to be classified as a stalker. I know where he lives, how many cats he has and why his two marriages failed. I know his biggest fears, ...

Someone get Michael Shannon a Webby — or whatever it is people get for outstanding achievements in Internet videos. The “Boardwalk Empire” actor’s reading of the insan...

Since “Portlandia” premiered in 2011, IFC has been reinventing itself as the home of off-beat original comedy. Last week, the network announced 11 concepts it’s consider...

The Roots will jump from “Late Night” to “The Tonight Show” when Jimmy Fallon takes over as host next year, answering the most important question raised by NBC’s lat...

Aziz Ansari has been doing interviews lately about dating rituals, turning 30 and how scared he is to have kids. Those are also some of the subjects covered in his current tou...

I’m used to turning on the TV and seeing ads that ask me to save things in need, like starving children or abused animals. I’m not used to commercials that ask me to save ...

Last week, as I prepared to interview Demetri Martin for Thursday’s Weekend Pass cover story, I was flipping through his new book of drawings, “Point Your Face at This,”...

“It’s a brand-new day on the Internet and things are gonna change!” goes the so-stupid-it’s-funny song performed by the fictional band Piss Cup in the first video from...

DC Pierson doesn’t know who I am, but he’s going to write a rap about me. The comedian and author, 28, is trying to get his new young adult novel, “Crap Kingdom,” onto...

Comedian Mike Birbiglia seems like the kind of guy you could have a conversation with. At least that’s how it felt Monday, at the first of his five sold-out shows this week ...

Eddie Pepitone, above, is the definition of “a comic’s comic.” At 54, he’s beloved and respected by his peers (names like Patton Oswalt, Marc Maron and Sarah Silverman...

As a longtime fan of Nick Kroll’s stand-up, his acting on “The League” and his podcast appearances, it’s been a treat to watch his Comedy Central sketch series “Krol...