Day: July 21, 2014

Montreal’s New Faces 2014: Just For Laughs

Montreal’s New Faces 2014: Just For Laughs

Posted by | Jul 21, 2014 | |

Here they are! Well, most of them anyhow. The list the comedy world waits all year for is out — Montreal’s “New Faces” for Just For Laughs. Last year, two “New Faces” made the leap from Montreal in July to Saturday Night Live in September (Brooks Wheelan and John Milhiser). In years and comedy booms past, the industry’s agents and managers rushed even crazier into the void to represent new talents and steer them toward five- or six-figure development deals. Who will get the Montreal bump this year? 2014’s New Faces of Comedy: Alingon Mitra Brad Wenzel Drew Michael...

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Comedy Dynamics uploading entire stand-up comedy archives to new Hulu channel

Comedy Dynamics uploading entire stand-up comedy archives to new Hulu channel

Posted by | Jul 21, 2014 | |

Hulu is getting a stand-up comedy boost as its streaming options soon will boast the archived collection from New Wave Entertainment‘s stand-up special catalogue. The Comedy Dynamics channel will debut July 29 on Hulu, with specials both on the free service as well as the paid Hulu Plus subscription package. “As the largest producer of high end stand-up comedy in the U.S., we wanted to seek out a partner that had the reach and respect we feel our artists deserve. Hulu was the obvious choice,” said Brian Volk-Weiss, Comedy Dynamics President. As opposed to subscription-only Netflix or Comedy Central’s...

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FXX to launch complete 552-episode marathon of The Simpsons plus the movie

FXX to launch complete 552-episode marathon of The Simpsons plus the movie

Posted by | Jul 21, 2014 | , |

If you’re looking to join the completists who claim to have watched every episode of The Simpsons at least once, then you best prepare yourself for Aug. 21, 2014. That’s when FXX will start a marathon that airs all 25 seasons of The Simpsons in chronological order — with The Simpsons Movie airing after episode 400, then resuming until all 552 episodes have aired. That’ll conclude at midnight Sept. 1. Twelve straight, continuous days and nights of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, Maggie and the rest of Springfield. It’s all to celebrate FXX’s acquisition of the record-setting animated TV series....

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Fall Sitcoms 2014 and the rise of the BBF: Bearded Best Friend

Fall Sitcoms 2014 and the rise of the BBF: Bearded Best Friend

Posted by | Jul 21, 2014 | , |

Three isn’t just the magic number. Three also makes a trend, so what to make of the Bearded Best Friend who’ll pop up on at least three new sitcoms this fall? Note: It’d be four or more in 2014 if NBC renews Undateable (featuring Ron Funches), and if you count Al Madrigal’s character on NBC’s About A Boy when he lets it go scruffier. But most definitely Zack Pearlman (FOX’s Mulaney), John Gemberling (NBC’s Marry Me) and Henry Zebrowski (NBC’s A To Z) fit the BFF bill. And the TV critics wasted little time hoping and wishing these guys...

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Two Years Later: Caleb Medley on video, rehabbing at home after Aurora shooting

Two Years Later: Caleb Medley on video, rehabbing at home after Aurora shooting

Posted by | Jul 21, 2014 | |

Two years ago, Caleb Medley was just another aspiring stand-up comedian and Batman fan taking his wife to a midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Medley was caught in the crossfire of a massacre at that July 20, 2012, screening in Aurora, Colo., shot in the head and eye. A dozen other movie patrons died that night. Family and friends raised money for Caleb to cover both his hospital bills as well as his wife’s, and they maintained a Facebook page to update his recovery and progress. His wife, Katie, was nine months pregnant; she survived the shooting...

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