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Just a few quick thoughts on the debut episode of HBO’s Down & Dirty with Jim Norton, which premiered over the weekend and airs again late tonight. In the theater, you could barely hear Lemmy from Motorhead, and not a lick of his theme song, but everything comes through a-OK …
So you know that Saturday Night Live is going live in primetime for the next few Thursdays (Oct. 9, Oct. 16, Oct. 23) before Election Day (also Monday, Nov. 3, aka Election Eve). But you’re wondering, can you get a ticket? Well, maybe. Stand-by tickets will be handed out, just …
The final three episodes of web series, Penelope: Princess of Pets, finally went online at Super Deluxe this morning. Will Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal fulfill their mission and save the world? Probably, but probably not before more wacky misadventures ensue. It’s not safe for work, but then again, would …
On today’s edition of The Today Show on the NBC television network, co-anchor Ann Curry showed us all what it’d look like if she tried stand-up comedy. Or, well, she teased Actually, as readers of this site know, Curry performed on a Monday in July in Carolines to a packed …
Saturday Night Live creator/executive producer/guru Lorne Michaels and a panel including longtime politically-minded SNL writer James Downey, current head writer Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler recently discussed the funny and sometimes very influential nature of presidential politics parodied on the show, from the beginnings of Chevy Chase tripping up Gerald …
If you had thought that Comedy Central’s new Chocolate News would be a black version of The Daily Show, then this trailer should disabuse you of that notion. It looks more like a hybrid of Daily Show and Chappelle’s Show, with David Alan Grier at the helm and playing multiple …
Steve White won the 2008 San Francisco Comedy Competition, which ended Saturday night. White returned to stand-up after several years of acting. Here are the overall results and a note from producer Jon Fox, wholly reblogged from the fine friends at SFstandup.com. 1. Steve White 2. Derick Lengwenus 3. Tyler …
With four consecutive live shows to begin the fall season in 2008, you might have expected this week’s Saturday Night Live to slip a little bit. Or perhaps they’d save the best for last? Instead, we learned that the show should have absolutely no problem with its new mission for …
Sure, most everyone is talking politics and Wall Street, but the news also makes it a great time for comedy, and there’s plenty of new stand-up and sketch comedy on TV this weekend, with the debut tonight at midnight of Down and Dirty with Jim Norton on HBO, Louis C.K.’s …
The 2008 edition of New York City’s Underground Comedy Festival begins tonight and continues through Oct. 12 in several venues around Manhattan. Highlights on Sunday include a private event, Comedy Fights Cancer, for patients at Memorial Sloan Kettering in the afternoon, the highly self-important New York’s Funniest Reporter show at …