Day: December 29, 2009

The High Road is an amusing documentary on cable channel/network G4 that follows Doug Benson and his opening act, Graham Elwood, from Los Angeles to Boise and Spokane for road comedy gigs. You also see him walking out of a Star Trek screening in Boise to call in to Comedy Death-Ray Radio. So dedicated! It's like a spin-off of The Comedians of Comedy documentary, but just following Doug Benson and Elwood. It debuted as an hour special Monday night on G4, but airs again overnight tonight at 1 a.m. and 4 a.m., high noon Wednesday and through the weekend. Here's a clip! Even if it doesn't become more than just this hour, it'll probably get you wanting to hear more of Doug Benson's prepared and improvised remarks on pop culture and life in general. Which, for you, means you're in luck, because in 2009, Benson recorded a CD (on 4/20, obvs) and then released this fun diversion of an hourlong stand-up CD, "Unbalanced Load." He worked hard and long on his segues for you people! "I don't have a segue into the segues thing…" he notes. Although I should note that no matter how well known Benson is for being a proponent of marijuana, his track on "Segues" alone should prove that he also is proficient at joke-writing and joke-telling. If you blink your ears, you may miss his Mark...

I'm beginning to understand how someone like Nikki Finke can become an Internet crank who stays inside like a hermit and yells TOLDJA! everytime her scoops get re-reported by the "mainstream" media. For the dozen or so of you who read The Comic's Comic on a daily basis, my apologies in advance for publicizing my annoyance. But really. If your name isn't Jeff Dunham, or someone who worked on his Comedy Central "sitcom" this fall, then you read about Dunham's puppet prank series getting cancelled — or failing to get renewed — on my site a week ago. Perhaps because it was Dec. 23, the mainstream media couldn't follow through with their own reports until after Christmas and the weekend. And so it was today, the following Tuesday morning, that The Hollywood Reporter reached out and got Comedy Central to confirm my report. No link. Then the New York Times cited THR's report. Again, no link. I know they know about my site, because they've followed my scoops on TV comedy before. And Dave went to the same college I did, so he must be a good kid and it couldn't be his fault. He did give me a ReTweet today, for what that's worth. The New York Times and the trades just don't want to acknowledge that a lone Internet journalist could be scooping them on a regular...