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Natasha Leggero goes for the jugular last night at Comedy Works

Dressed in a slinky black cocktail dress and spunky Beatle-boots, Natasha Leggero strutted with sarcasm and sass during the first show in her four-night run at Comedy Works last night. Delivering her characteristic bitter commentary on politics and low-brow culture (sweetened by an Audrey Hepburn fo ... More >>

Natasha Leggero on Sarah Silverman, Russell Brand and poorly dressed comics

A bitter pill wrapped in a sweet cherry coating, comic Natasha Leggero is a double threat of intoxicating charm and tabloid cruelty. With her Audrey Hepburn-style and merciless observational humor, she's known to raise the I-can't-believe-she-just-said-that bar during her regular appearances on Chel ... More >>

Believe it: Netflix does TV right

Reader: Adam Carolla doesn't worship at the politically correct Church of Liberalism

"I gave an interview to some asshole out here, from some crunchy newspaper," Adam Carolla said from the Paramount stage Wednesday night. "He's probably here somewhere tonight." And he was: Josiah Hesse was in the audience as Carolla proceeded to launch a Big Mock Attack directed at Hesse's discussio ... More >>

Wreck-It-Ralph proves it's hard out there for a video-game villain -- even a Disney one

T.J. Miller talks Dane Cook, Denver comedy and eating mustard out of a can

Denver native T.J. Miller is one busy comic. But even on the same day that his new comedy series, Mash Up, premiered on Comedy Central, Miller took the time to give us a call and chat about Hollywood success and why he still misses Denver. During our conversation, Miller was on the set where he's fi ... More >>

The Humor Code, Untitled edition: Pete McGraw and Joel Warner explain funny

Scientists have long understood that farts are hilarious. What's less understood, however, is why. In all seriousness, though, actual scientists have been trying to theoretically understand humor since the time of Aristotle without much success -- until University of Colorado Boulder professor Pete ... More >>

Jerk at Work

Thirteen hottest vegetarians, in honor of Hug a Vegetarian Day

Flickr photo​As if vegetarians don't get enough kudos for being greener and more animal-friendly than their meat-eating counterparts, now they get rewarded with hugs. And who doesn't love a hug? Today is Hug a Vegetarian Day, according to PETA2. And since we've been slaving away in our cubic ... More >>

The Legend of Zelda, Louie and more new releases for this week, June 21, 2011

​Just because it's summer doesn't mean we can't all sit indoors and consume entertainment. After all, the hotter and nicer it gets outside, the more you need to just relax and unwind in front of the TV or a good book. Unfortunately, there are apparently no books being released this week, but w ... More >>

Jump through some hoops to get a free download of some Tig Notaro comedy!

Tig Notaro coming out with an album -- can you believe it?​Back when she was working as a music promoter in Denver, few probably would have believed that Tig Notaro -- who had at that point never even performed on a stage, let alone comedy -- would go on to the phenomenal amount of success she ... More >>

Marijuana patients get their humor tested by nutty professor Peter McGraw in Wired

Peter McGraw.​Last August, I detailed the strange story of Peter McGraw, a CU-Boulder professor dead set on explaining what makes things funny. Since then, the odd tale has continued: A piece I penned for Wired magazine describes McGraw's continued efforts to crack the humor code, a scholarly ... More >>

Apparently Tina Fey wrote a book and other new release surprises this week, April 4, 2011

​Generally speaking, when a celebrity writes a book, we shrug and feel sorry for everyone who purchases it. That's because celebrity books are usually egocentric cash-ins trying to make it seem like these characters on TV are less one-dimensional than we think. That said, Tina Fey's book migh ... More >>

The Musical Comedian

Tig Notaro on Denver, Sarah Silverman and hanging onto the mic for dear life

Tig Notaro has friends.​After getting her start in the inner workings of the entertainment biz as a music promoter (for a while in Denver), Tig Notaro got an itch to be onstage -- not as a musician, but as a comedian. In that respect, she's been more successful than many; she's done specials o ... More >>

Tig Notaro Is Baaaack

What makes us laugh? Professor Peter McGraw thinks he's found the answer to one of humanity's greatest questions

Sure, she's a piece of work. But there's got to be more to Joan Rivers.

Kenny Be's 2008 DNC Dream Days: One Year Later

Remember those five dreamy days last August when the 2008 Democratic National Convention made every Denver moment seem like magic? It's all such a daze. My, how things have changed.... ​ 2008 DNC Dream Daze: With 15,000 members of the media in town, journalists could be seen standing every te ... More >>

Funny People

Ladies First

CU-Boulder salutes women’s work.

Little brother scores DNC party VIP, reports to big brother via text, “This partys fuckin awesome!”

45 Second Reviews: pureNRG, Puscifer, Robyn, Santogold

Delegating Denver #33 of 56: New Hampshire

MTV's VMA Experiment is an Embarrassing Catastrophe

Tenacious D in "The Pick of Destiny"

The band gets back together, and�and�and?

Men Behaving Badly

Bad Santa meets Napoleon Dynamite in this tepid man-child comedy.

Westword's top DVD picks for the week of June 8, 2006.

Grind It Out With Pam

Now Dirtier Than Ever

Swindled Art

The Year in Film

From dirty jokes and soldiers to penguins and gays, we made our preferences known.

Crass Action

Inside the dirtiest joke ever told is a nugget of unadulterated joy.

Canine Pride

The GLBT community opens its arms to dogs.

The Bagmen Cometh

Go The Way of the Gun, and you shall be rewarded.