Anthony Balducci's Journal

Australian comedian Frank Woodley has brought his affection for silent film comedy to the fore on his new television series, Woodley .  ...

In 1902, Georges Méliès created a comical little film that showed a dancer running up a wall and performing handsprings in mid-air.  The ...

One of Max Linder's early films was a morbid 1906 comedy called Le Pendu , which translates as The Hanged Man . The film begins, a...

Nikki Finke, the editor of Deadline.com , ruffled a few feathers when she protested Julie Bowen scoring an Emmy win for her comedy wor...

  I enjoyed talking to Derek McLellan for his Dream Factory podcast.  We had a lively conversation about the comedians featured in Eigh...

 My latest book (and second novel) is Slaughterhouse Frome , a seriocomic science fiction story about a stressed expectant father wh...

I have commented in the past about the creative efforts of Cartoon Network's Adventure Time to introduce classic comedy routin...