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The other big comedy news in Chicago over the weekend came courtesy of Bill Murray, who jumped out of a plane with the Army to kick off the Chicago Air & Water Show. The Sun-Times and Tribune each filed reports; the Tribune’s CLTV also includes unedited videos from Army cameras …
While CNN rebroadcast its Larry King Live interview with the surviving members of the Original Kings of Comedy crew multiple times last week, that trio (D.L. Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer and Steve Harvey) and thousands more, including the mayor of Chicago, memorialized Bernie Mac on Saturday. Accounts also from The …
What did you do with your Saturday night?a) Out and aboutb) Watching the Summer Olympics coverage that included an insane 100m "Lightning" Bolt record dash, Michael Phelps getting his record eighth gold medal in swimming, and Dara Torres proving age ain’t nothing but a number?c) At home watching Eddie Griffin‘s …
Free tickets are available to this year’s Comedy Central Presents tapings in New York City, taping shows in pairs from Aug. 24-29, 2008 at the Hudson Theater. I believe Bo Burnham is setting a land-speed record by getting a half-hour TV special before he enrolls in college at NYU and …
Here’s a trend I’ve noticed this summer in online comedy videos: Comedians inserting themselves into TV and movies. It’s retro and new, all in one. Take the sketch group Summer of Tears, for instance, who imagine how characters really might react if one of their fellow high-school students was a …
Finally, after a number of roasts for non-comedians, Comedy Central has returned to salute one of our own, with the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget debuting at 10 p.m. Sunday. Here is the extended trailer: More clips after the jump.
See what happens when Greg Johnson doesn’t have a weekly comedy show to host and produce in New York City? He winds up running across the country. Naked. Wait. What? It’s "Liberation Day." (Other filming info here) Run, Greg, run! Don’t worry, it’s blurry…
For your consideration. This just surfaced online. Mottleys: "Boston’s newest comedy club!" Opening next month. I shall tell you all about it soon enough!
My friends at Gawker today created a graphic to explain the inner comedy circle of Judd Apatow, who seems to have a hand in almost every major comedy movie production in the past two years. Gawker presents Apatown:
While we all wait with bated breath to hear if anyone new has made it onto the cast of Saturday Night Live, the folks over at The Daily Show have not been shy to pull the trigger on hiring new correspondents, and I have to hand it to them. After …