Ty Tyler Credit: Mark Hancock “It’s great to be associated with some fun,” said Ty Tyler, president of Tyler Media, who oversaw the format change from Radio Disney to 24/7 Comedy. “It helps put people in a good mood, and there’s certainly nothing like it in Oklahoma City.” The brainchild of 24/7 Comedy is George […]
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Comedy by the slice
<span style=" Arial” ,”sans-serif””=””> Jim Gaffigan is white. Very white. So white, he’s dubbed his current stand-up tour as “The White Bread Tour.” “I’ve heard that my style of comedy is kind of white bread, in kind of a derogatory way. So I thought it would be funny to just embrace it,” Gaffigan said. “And […]
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One Sweet sell-out
Guess whose 15 minutes aren’t quite up yet? Oklahoma City’s Sweet Brown, whose apartment-fire interview with KFOR Channel 4 made her an Internet superstar overnight. Not just anyone can parlay a life-threatening incident into an appearance on Comedy Central’s hit Tosh.0. Chicken-Fried News wasn’t bowled over by Brown’s spokesperson ad last year selling homes, but […]
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Funny or Die Presents: The Complete Second Season
Played with flawless deadpan by Steve Tom as an ersatz Leslie Nielsen, Haligan is the host of Funny or Die Presents, but also the Head of West Coast Sales & Marketing for the fictional Funny or Die Network, programming from which this sketch series is built. For season two, Haligan may have traded his sterile-white […]
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Funny business
Comedian Jay Mohr recently used his popular podcast, Mohr Stories, to call Brian Regan the funniest comedian in America. That was news to Regan. “I didn’t realize he said that, but I’m quite honored. That means a lot to me,” him said. “Compliments are always fun, but when they come from people who do what […]
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Some Guy Who Kills People
Corrigan often plays losers and underdogs, but rarely as the lead. Here, he’s ice cream parlor worker Kenny Boyd, sometimes further humiliated by having to don a costume as a mint chocolate chip cone at kids’ birthday parties. But, hey, it beats the loony bin, from which he’s newly sprung. Bullied and tormented since his […]
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Bear clod
BY PHIL BACHARACH Ted is a foul-mouthed, hooker-loving pothead prone to comments of racism, homophobia and misogyny. Ted is also a stuffed teddy bear. That’s the premise, plot and central joke of Ted, the movie-directorial debut of Seth MacFarlane, creator of TV’s animated series Family Guy. It’s a funny enough idea, but stretched mighty thin […]
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Barry spritzer
Rock has The Beatles, jazz has Miles Davis, rap has Tupac, and adult contemporary has Barry Manilow. The man who became an icon for molding “Mandy,” “Copacabana (At the Copa)” and “Can’t Smile Without You” into chunks of pop-culture history is a natural showman with a gleaming voice, penchant for flashy stage attire and a […]
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J crew
“Not everybody likes everything that I do, but I feel like it gives everybody a better view of who I am as a person, because I do so many different things,” said Henderson, who works under the moniker Cameron J. Henderson began making music when he was a junior in high school. He participated in […]
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Brad Gregg After President Obama voiced support for gay marriage, the Oklahoma Senate wasted little time passing what Tim Matheson in Animal House would have termed “a really futile and stupid gesture.” A resolution authored by Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond, and overwhelmingly passed by the Senate on May 14 reaffirmed that the Senate supports marriage […]