Comedian John Evans is have a difficult time reconciling the fact that Philip Morris kills millions of people each year and are one of the most philanthropic companies in the world. Check it out

Stand-up comedian Craig Robinson will head to court Aug. 21 after being arrested for possession of Ecstasy and methamphetamine.

The comic, now best known for his role as warehouse foreman, Darrl Philbin on The Office, was stopped June 29 in Culver City, CA for a routine traffic violation when the two illegal substances were found; Robinson was also found to be under the influence of one of the drugs, though police didn’t specify which. LA County prosecutors charged Robinson with two counts of felony drug possession and one count of being under the influence.

We snagged this video from our friends at DailyComedy.com. It seems comedian Ryan Maloney is tired of the options we’re given every four years. Welcome to the Bachelor Party.

Comedian Aisha Tyler will film a one-hour Comedy Central special tomorrow at the Fillmore in San Francisco, her hometown.

During the show, Tyler will hit on a number of topics, she told the Redwood City Daily News. “I’m not a political comic. I’m a socio-political comic. So I do a lot of stuff about popular culture and the way that we relate to each other culturally, sexually and ethnically.”

Though this is Tyler’s first stand-up comedy special, Tyler’s no stranger to the public’s eye. She’s scored roles in Friends, 24, Ghost Whisperer was the host of E!’s Talk Soup and published the book Swerve: Reckless Observations of a Postmodern Girl.

Comedian Aaron Karo just announced the launch of Ruminations.com. The site is a user-generated humor site that allows members to write their own “ruminations,” defined by the site as funny observations or anecdotes less than 100 words. The best posts are voted to a prominent spot at the homepage of the site.

The site is an extension of the Ruminations theme that Karo has been establishing since 1997 in a bi-weekly email column and two books. Karo has been writing his random thoughts and observations since he was a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. A Wharton grad who left Wall Street to become a stand-up comic, Karo will make his network debut tonight when he does stand-up on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS.

By now, you surely know that Comedy Central is releasing a brand new Mitch Hedberg album Sept. 9. It’s called Do You Believe in Gosh?

“I was looking at one of Mitch’s notebooks after he died and that line was written on a page along with some other notes. I just kind of liked it,” Hedberg’s widow, comedian Lynn Shawcroft told Punchline Magazine. “It’s not a line from a joke or anything.” Click here for our previous coverage on Mitch’s album.

Punchline Magazine is giving away three copies of the album. All you need to do is write a haiku (that’s a three-line poem with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second and five again in the third) about Mitch Hedberg and send it here: contest@punchlinemagazine.com. Make sure “Mitch” is in the subject line. We will choose our three favorite ones, post them online and send those peeps a copy of the album! When you enter, please include your name and address. We will print your town, so you have to be cool with that.

Do You Believe in Gosh? is the long-awaited third album from the comedy icon, Mitch Hedberg, set for release on Comedy Central Records on Tues, Sept 9.

Recorded two months prior to his death, the album contains nearly 40 minutes of previously unreleased stand-up material. The CD captures most of the material Hedberg was working on for what would have been his next full-length album in a free-form show with a large amount of audience interaction.

Mitch Hedberg was one of the most beloved comedians and world renown for his off-kilter one-liners and inimitable style. He died in March of 2005 with nearly an album’s worth of new material he was preparing to
record later that October. While he never got a chance to record the album as he wanted, Do You Believe In Gosh? was taped live just prior to his passing and captures a large portion of his new jokes.

Happy Friday, readers. Here’s some good ‘ole poop humor from comedian Brendon Walsh to get your weekend started right.

Remember this Saturday Night Live commercial parody? No? Well, who needs a memory when you have embed code. Enjoy.

Sick of the stupid fucking Olympics? Would you like to see someone make fun of the stupid fucking Olympics? We would. So do you. We know it. Check out a bunch of stand-up comedians (you know them as the contestants on Comedy Central’s Reality Bites Back) take part in a diving event– the way it should be televised. New episode of RBB airs tonight. Check it out.

At age 80, Koishi Kimi is the comedy veteran in the region of Kansai. What most Japanese comedy fans may not know – because he doesn’t usually speak about it — is that he is a survivor of the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima.

Koishi finally agreed to speak about his experience after sixty-three years, admitting he still struggles with trying to separate himself from the disaster that killed over 100,000 people.

“I don’t like to talk about the bomb,” Koishi told the Mainichi Daily News. “It doesn’t really fit into the world of comedy.”

Koishi was an enlisted soldier in the former Imperial Army. On August 6, 1945, he was on the second floor of the army barracks near Hiroshima Castle, eating his breakfast.

“I saw a flash of light. And I remember running downstairs,” he revealed in the interview. “I looked up and there was no castle. I thought it must have been a direct hit.”

Later, Koishi was put in a truck to take him to the port at Ujina, where they were loading the injured to be treated at a nearby island. He will never forget the people he saw along the way.

“I saw people walking around with faces half burned off and their skin in tatters. A woman was lying there, and a breath of wind came along and blew her hair off like a scrap of trash.”

It was not until two weeks after the end of the war that Koishi made it back to his apartment in Osaka where his parents and older brother Itoshi Yumeji lived. His family had heard about the destruction of Hiroshima and had already had a memorial service for him. August 6 was set down as his “death anniversary”; it also happens to be his birthday.

Koishi and his brother Itoshi formed a comedy duo after the war that won them great popularity in their country. Through his comedy career, Koishi has attempted to move on.

“I tried to forget about the bomb,” Koishi explained. “I feel guilty towards the people who died. It seems inexcusable that I’m still alive.”