The Comedy Awards, on Comedy Central, are more irreverent than most awards shows, but tastefulness still interferes.

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Critic’s Notebook: The Comedy Awards on Comedy Central

After four years since his last movie, Chris Tucker is starting a comedy tour and planning some films. Where’s he been? “I’ve been here,” he says, “I’ve been living.”

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Back Again, Whether or Not He Was Away

“Jon Benjamin Has a Van,” and indeed he does: a windowless blue number that is meant to conjure up images of creeps and perverts and other van owners meant to be generally avoided. With a garish paint job featuring Benjamin as a nude cherub with a reporter’s microphone, the van is ostensibly set loose with a mission to bring back humorous stories in this disappointingly unfunny series premiering Tuesday night on Comedy Central. This is the sort of show Comedy Central could actually use to complement its fake-news lineup. If Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert function as rough analogues to Walter Cronkite and Bill O’Reilly (and in fact have audiences that rely on them to filter the real news into something more ironically palatable), then what about a full-time Charles Kuralt on the road? Read full article > >

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TV review: On Comedy Central, ‘Jon Benjamin Has a Van,’ but not much else

Two days after getting nicked for pulling his punches when covering a news conference by pal Rep. Anthony Weiner, TV’s most influential fake newscaster, Jon Stewart, not only dived into the dirty deep end with the rest of the media — he made himself the star of the story. A million years ago — last week — Weiner (D-N.Y.) was denying that he sent a lewd photo of himself to a college-age woman on Twitter. He was suggesting his computer had been hacked, and he was insisting that he wasn’t sure whether the crotch in question belonged to him. On Comedy Central’s “ The Daily Show ,” Stewart mostly covered the story then by comically bemoaning how tough it all was, having to make comedy at the expense of a friend. Read full article > >

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The TV Column: Jon Stewart pulls a deft reversal with cutting Weiner satire

This is a Book Review. More precisely, this is a Book Review of “This Is a Book,” a work so wryly titled because comedian Demetri Martin mines the very nomenclature of things for askew humor, joyfully toying with the meanings and associations and sounds of words themselves. That is why he likes “boob.” This is a Defining Style. Martin will flash a few anatomical hahas — one must oblige one’s core Comedy Central demographic — but he likes “boob” mainly as a fast-punchline palindrome. Besides two-way spellings, he also trains his relentlessly inventive brain on acronyms and epigrams, graphs and rules of grammar, charts and doodle art. Language is his plaything — fodder to be prodded and poked and twisted till it yields bent-perspective laughs. Read full article > >

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This is a linguistic hoot: Demetri Martin’s ‘This Is a Book’

This is a Book Review. More precisely, this is a Book Review of “This Is a Book,” a work so wryly titled because comedian Demetri Martin mines the very nomenclature of things for askew humor, joyfully toying with the meanings and associations and sounds of words themselves. That is why he likes “boob.” This is a Defining Style. Martin will flash a few anatomical hahas — one must oblige one’s core Comedy Central demographic — but he likes “boob” mainly as a fast-punchline palindrome. Besides two-way spellings, he also trains his relentlessly inventive brain on acronyms and epigrams, graphs and rules of grammar, charts and doodle art. Language is his plaything — fodder to be prodded and poked and twisted till it yields bent-perspective laughs. Read full article > >

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This is a linguistic hoot: Demetri Martin’s ‘This Is a Book’

Twenty years in, Comedy Central is still the TV leader in comedy, its endurance the result of talent-spotting and demographic marketing.

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True to Mission, Comedy Central Still Strong at 20

Guess they have the Tea Party to thank for this one. Comedy Central’s The Daily Show made ratings history this past month, becoming the first late-night talk show in the past decade to rank No. 1 in the adult demo for an entire month other than Jay…

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The Daily Show Beats Out Leno, Letterman

Comedy Central funnymen Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will hold rallies on the National Mall Saturday, putting a satirical spin on partisan politics three days before midterm elections.

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Stewart, Colbert lead lighthearted rally

Comedy Central hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will hold the “Rally to Restore Sanity” and the “March to Keep Fear Alive” on the National Mall on Saturday, with thousands expected to flood in from across the country.

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‘Sanity’ supporters flocking to D.C.

The Marine Corps’ race organizers will not share their Port a Potties with participants in Comedy Central’s rallies on Halloween weekend.

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Runners and Rallies Will Not Share Toilets

Revenge is a dish best served humorously. Following Rick Sanchez’s rant against Jon Stewart-including labeling the Daily Show host a “bigot”-that got him fired from his anchor position at CNN, Stewart retaliated Saturday evening during Comedy Central’s…

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Jon Stewart Mocks Rick Sanchez

Mr. Sanchez called Jon Stewart of Comedy Central a bigot and made contentious remarks about Jews in the media.

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CNN Fires Rick Sanchez for Remarks in Interview