Farley Elliott

It’s a wet and rainy one out there this week, so be sure to buckle up safely and take it easy to avoid any mishaps. And you’ll want to be especially careful if you’ve got a hooker in the car. AM I RIGHT, EDDIE MURPHY?! AM I RIGHT, 12 YEAR OLD CELEBRITY REFERENCE?! At any rate, we’ve all wondered how the availability of OnStar in many cars these days might lead to a loss...

One of a handful of baseball cards you can download from the HBO site. Photo courtesy HBO. Let’s assume you’re a reasonably intelligent person who also has HBO. It would be easy to assume, then (since you are reasonably intelligent) that at 10 o’clock tonight you will be watching Flight of the Conchords on your HBO-enabled viewing box of choice. Again, seems reasonable enough. Why, then, in your reasonably-sized brain, would you ever have...

The Good Neighbor guys, as you may find them walking on your block. Photo courtesy the guys themselves. Do you ever think to yourself: "man, I could really go for some good, wholesome sketch comedy". You know, sketches about imagination, pranking your gay (?) roommate, being retarded-but-not, celebrity babies having...babies... If so, look no further than right next door, because Good Neighbor has what you're begging for. You might recognize these hilarious LA-based sketch...

I Hollywould. Courtesy albertocueto via LAist Flickr page. It's been a dark and cloudy weekend. Let's try to warm things up with some comedy this week, including the always-awesome Daniel Tosh. There's some good improv this week and some really stellar sketch, as well as some untested but possibly-awesome stand up. Good luck out there, comedy comrades. And as always, email Farley to hype your own stuff. MONDAY 2/9 Crackin’ Up Comedy Hour, 8p...

Photo courtesy IFC Films. It's a reasonable assumption that a film chronicling the inner workings of an actual mob syndicate would be interesting, engaging even. You would assume, as you saunter in with your too-large Coke and your caution-orange butter popcorn that, "hey, some of this is probably going to end up on the floor, because I'm going to get startled or have to turn myself away quickly from the bloodshed and gunplay". "Hey,"...

Dan Levy is quickly becoming a known face around the comedy circuit, due in no small part to his success with the website CollegeHumor, which is an online showcase for funny videos, articles, and photographs, with a heavy bent towards (you guessed it) the college demographic. Dan has been an integral part of the multifaceted expansion of the site beyond the small corner of the web they currently occupy, and into very real comedy...

Photo courtesy jcolton via Flickr. For all of you Dane Cook fans out there, it's time to put down your retainers and ask mom and dad if it's OK to stay out late this weekend, as Dane himself will be filming a new Comedy Central piece at the Laugh Factory. This is great news for all four people who watched every episode of Tourgasm (you know who you are). Dane will be taking over...

Roberto Alomar doing what they do at iO West. Improv, if you're not familiar, is a pretty scary thing; both for the audience and the improvisors. It's sort of an agreement between the two groups who fully acknowledge that SOMETHING is going to happen, but nobody's quite sure what, and in this regard it is unique to other forms of conventional comedy. And even within improv, short-form (a series of small games - think...

Please do this to anyone with that haircut and shirt, any time, any place. Photo courtesy Magnet. More than likely, it's been a while since you've seen a kung fu movie. There were the Jackie Chan years, the Crouching Tiger times, but those are largely gone, and true martial arts ass-kickery is for the most part missing from American cinema houses. Why is this? Has the general skill level gone down? Is Parkour, the...

I barely know 'er! LOLOLOLOLOLOL. Photo via LAist Flickr Pool, by ciana13. Great stuff this week, including a 2nd Aziz Ansari show (Aziz interview here), The Lampshades in limited engagement at iO West, and the Birthday Boys at UCB. Don't miss out, and email Farley your next show! MONDAY 2/02 Garage Comedy, 9p El Cid. A crazy mix of stand up and sketch and wackiness in Silver Lake. Crash Test, 11p UCB. Huebel and...