Day: January 7, 2013

Gina Brillon, Jon Laster win one-year holding deals with NBCUniversal through 2012’s Stand-Up For Diversity

Gina Brillon, Jon Laster win one-year holding deals with NBCUniversal through 2012’s Stand-Up For Diversity

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Congrats go out to Gina Brillon and Jon Laster, who each has earned a one-year talent holding deal with NBCUniversal for winning 2012’s NBC Stand-Up For Diversity talent search. Jon Laster is from Denver but moved to NYC after college to pursue his stand-up career. You can find out more about Gina Brillon right here, as The Comic’s Comic profiled Brillon back in October in the Meet Me In New York column. Previous alumni from the NBC Stand-Up For Diversity search include Tone Bell (2011 winner, on cast of Whitney), Sheng Wang (2010 winner), Kevin Shea (2009 winner), Eric...

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From Funny or Die to Sundance to Comedy Central series: The history of “Drunk History”

From Funny or Die to Sundance to Comedy Central series: The history of “Drunk History”

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Drunk History isn’t the first webseries to become a TV series, but it is among the more celebrated ones to make the jump. Comedy Central announced over the weekend at the TCA press tour that it had ordered eight half-hour episodes of “Drunk History” to air this summer. UPDATED: The series debuted July 9, 2013! Created by Derek Waters and directed by Jeremy Konner, the “Drunk History” short films — narrated by a drunken comedian and re-enacted by famous actors — are a Gary Sanchez Production and first appeared online via YouTube before becoming part of that production house’s...

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Comedy Headlines for 1/7/12

Comedy Headlines for 1/7/12

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What’s happening in the comedy world now… Sarah Michelle Gellar is looking to bounce back with a sitcom project at 20th Century Fox, written by Shepard Boucher. Anna Faris is topping a CBS pilot from Chuck Lorre in which she’d play a single mom who sobers up in the wine country of Napa Valley. News from the TV Critics Association (TCA) winter press tour: NBC The network ordered 13 episodes of one-hour dramedy series “Camp” to air over the summer, pitching it as a cross between “Meatballs” and “Dazed and Confused.” It’s created by Liz Heldens and Peter Elkoff...

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