The Groundlings

Critic's Notebook: Drake Doremus keeps it simple and intimate

2013-01-18 16:50:00

PARK CITY, Utah — Drake Doremus is as engaging and open a filmmaker as you are likely to meet, but once he gets down to work, everything changes. "I close my sets as much as I can," the 29-year-old writer-director says. "I treat every scene like a...

SAG Awards: Melissa McCarthy, Judd Apatow talk 'Bridesmaids' noms

2011-12-14 16:37:02

Oscar nominations 2012: Groundling alums make good showing

2012-01-24 16:37:44

Theater review: 'Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 and Over' at the Matrix

2012-01-26 16:34:02

'Bridesmaids' cast learned to roll with the laughs

2011-12-01 00:00:00

Theater review: 'The Crazy Uncle Joe Show' at The Groundlings Theatre

2011-06-23 16:33:19

Kristen Wiig, so weird on 'SNL,' goes (somewhat) normal for 'Bridesmaids'

2011-05-08 00:00:00

Kristen Wiig has just come off an average Saturday night, one that required her to wear a 2-foot-high wig, shuffle lethargically around a stripper pole and bury her face in Helen Mirren's cleavage. "I was like, 'Are you cool with this? 'Cause I'm...

Theater Review: 'Groundlings State Penitentiary' at the Groundlings Theatre

2011-05-26 21:33:18

Pee-wee Herman, star of Friday's movie in park, is character who stands test of time

2013-05-16 11:04:02

The mid-1980s: It was a time before widespread use of cellphones and personal computers, and MTV had yet to lose interest in music videos. It was also a time before Paul Reubens had a rap sheet, or at least no one cared. Back then, Reubens just had Pee-...

Why folk music? Why not?

2013-02-21 10:47:00

Sneakers, drugs and everyday life. That's what Tracy Newman's albums are made of. "I usually mention tennis shoes and some kind of drug in my CDs," she said. "I was dating a guy whose tennis shoes were all over the place and I was always tripping on...

Dave Aizer

2012-11-26 13:58:00

Dave Aizer is a television host, producer and writer. Currently, he serves in all three capacities for WSFL-TV, South Florida’s CW affiliate. Dave creates content for and hosts a weekly talk show – “Inside South Florida” –...

'Stuffed and Unstrung': Improv with puppets

2012-06-07 12:42:00

However many times you may have tuned in to Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog, you never saw the funniest bits of "The Muppet Show." That's because the really good material was performed before the cameras rolled. "That was always the really funny stuff,"...

Echo Kellum grew up on the South Side, and after working in theater and commercials in Chicago he moved to L.A. in 2009 where he trained and played in the city's improv comedy scene, including Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, iO West and The Groundlings.

2012-10-18 07:08:00

"We grew up in between worlds, without a clear definition of who we are," Peele said. "In all of our racial material, there's an underlying acknowledgment of how absurd the whole idea of [seeing] these physical traits as differences between human beings is.

2011-12-28 11:16:19

Born Sept. 19, 1974, James Thomas "Jimmy" Fallon started his career as a stand-up comedian and studied at the Groundlings Theater in Los Angeles. In 2001, he released his comedy album "The Bathroom Wall" to mixed reviews.

2002-09-22 00:00:00