My Pod Week: Week ending 8/03/14
by Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the …
Month: August 2014
First impressions, New Faces Unrepped at Montreal’s Just For Laughs 2014
by For all of the artificial and natural word-of-mouth buzz that happens each July in Montreal, perhaps the most likely to produce buzz event of Just …
First impressions, New Faces Characters at Montreal’s Just For Laughs 2014
I’ve been writing so much about members of The Reckoning, that I should have reckoned that another of the iO West’s improv collective would be …
Last Comic Standing 8: From a Top 5 to a Top 4
NBC’s Last Comic Standing made the penultimate cruelest cut last night, winnowing the field from five to four. The show also introduced Jay Leno as …
Jay Leno’s words of wisdom to NBC’s Top 5, Last Comic Standing 8
Jay Leno appeared briefly on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the guest mentor for season eight’s top five finalists, before they faced a studio audience …
Revisiting “The Rocky LaPorte Show,” a CBS sitcom pilot from 2000
One of the plum rewards of winning Last Comic Standing is a development deal with NBC to see if the network can make a sitcom …
Sneak peek: Full episode of IFC’s “Garfunkel and Oates”
IFC’s adaptation of musical-comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates into TV series format premieres next Thursday (Aug. 7, 2014), but you can sneak a peek of a full …
NBC renews Undateable for 10-episode second season in summer 2015
Hot off the heels of performing individually and collectively in Montreal’s Just For Laughs, the cast of Undateable received news late Thursday that NBC had …
Ron Funches on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Ron Funches is in NYC headlining Caroline’s on Broadway, and before his show on Thursday night, he stopped in to perform on The Tonight Show …
Michael Somerville on Late Show with David Letterman
Michael Somerville returned to the Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday night, and the NYC resident had tales to share from his trips on …