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The first president to speak at SXSW? Oh yeah, that's another first.

Austin's SXSW festival returns next month from Friday, March 11th through Sunday the 20th, and today they revealed the initial SXSW Comedy lineup. As usual, it's a packed lineup full of funny people -- check out the full list below:

"For me in particular it was a good season because we deal with his sexuality."

We've seen it.

Ry-guy is the mike-bearer.

Starring Amy Schumer and Melissa McCarthy, respectively. 

Photographer Charlotte Hornsby followed her for four days, from the Louisiana countryside to SXSW.

Currently doing a week of shows at SXSW in Austin, Jimmy Kimmel resurrected his "Lie Witness News" segment to ask a bunch of music festival attendees for their opinions on bands that are so cool and obscure that they're actually not real bands [...]

It’s only been on the air for two weeks, but Late Night with Seth Meyers already has a best-of reel and its own dedicated (sometimes intense) fans. A sizzle reel of interviews and clips of the new show kicked of the “Inside Late Night” panel at [...]

Jimmy Kimmel is getting ready to host another week of his late night talk show from Austin, Texas. From March 10th to March 14th, Jimmy Kimmel Live will be broadcasting new episodes in conjunction with the annual music and film festival South [...]

Going to South by Southwest? Take a break at Coach Taylor's house.

There's a rivalry brewing in Austin, Texas, between two spring comedy fests: The Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival and South by Southwest's (SXSW) comedy festival. Well, it's a bit of a one-sided rivalry, as second-year festival Moontower [...]

Austin-based film/music/comedy festival South by Southwest (or SXSW as the cool kids call it) just announced its comedy lineup, running from 3/9 to 3/16, and it's jam-packed with most of the funniest people going. There are live shows from [...]

There's an "ugliness" and a "deadness." 

Throughout Saturday Night Live's history, the  show’s cast has been largely imported from comedy training grounds like the Second City in Chicago or The Groundlings in LA, but Fred Armisen’s path to the show was a little different than most of [...]

Our critic's favorite new bands.

Here's a video interview with New Yorker cartoonist Matt Diffee, in which he discusses the business of "drawing funny" and also doodles a macrocephalic flying unicorn. It's a good shock to the system for those of us who are used to thinking [...]

A critic bears witness to a genuinely staggering level of emotional sensitivity.

They reallly jam on that thing.