Taping Comedy Central’s “Mash Up” special: Swan song for Blerds, or potentially its phoenix rising
by Earlier in the 2000s, a group of Chicago stand-up comedians began working together to make their careers a little more innovative and in tunes with …
Month: April 2010
Video: What if Domino’s Pizza really took their focus group feedback seriously?
I'm heading to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in a long time this weekend to check out the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, so this …
Taping Comedy Central’s “Mash Up” special: Swan song for Blerds, or potentially its phoenix rising
Earlier in the 2000s, a group of Chicago stand-up comedians began working together to make their careers a little more innovative and in tunes with …
Comedy Central orders 7 additional episodes of “Ugly Americans”
While you were wondering if Sarah Silverman and Demetri Martin would get renewed, Comedy Central announced today it had ordered seven additional episodes of its …
Perils of comedy on Twitter. Case study: Parallel thinking, topical; see Dane Cook, Aziz Ansari
Writing comedy on Twitter carries with it some of the same perils of performing comedy in front of a live audience: The notion that the …
NY1’s Pat Kiernan moderates a panel on Twitter and comedy, then shares what he enjoys about it
The two-day 140 Characters Conference in New York City ended its first full day of sessions yesterday with a panel on Twitter and comedy, moderated …
Glee auditions inspire comedians to post sincere, fake and sincerely fake videos
The new FOX series Glee has earned critical praise and a cult-like devotion from its first season fans, and tonight's all-Madonna tribute shouldn't change that. …
Dancing with the Comedy Stars? Pamela Anderson will host a Gala at Montreal’s Just For Laughs fest
This just in! The Just For Laughs Festival announced that British Columbia native Pamela Anderson, currently starring this spring on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, …
IFC’s Dan Pasternack on what the cable channel’s rebranding means: more alt-comedy on cable TV
Dan Pasternack became IFC's VP of Development and Production in February, in a press release from the cable channel that noted IFC had "restructured its original programming …
Lizzy Caplan, Adam Scott & Martin Starr reveal how sexy vampire fad translates (or not) to the mummy
Remember when we used to be scared of vampires and not wanting to have sex with them? The current pop culture trend of sexy vampires …