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If you clicked on my Google calendar, you’d see that Human Giant (Aziz Ansari, Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel) are busy rehearsing sketches at the UCB Theatre in NYC tonight and next Monday night for a live stage sketch tour of the USA. Advanced tix to the UCB rehearsals are …
Sara Benincasa got a gig this year contributing to MTV’s 2008 Choose or Lose campaign coverage, which means we’re sure to see plenty of comedians weigh in with opinions on the election. Here, she sits down with Stella (yes, Michael Showalter, David Wain and Michael Ian Black, together again) to …
Shortly after, or perhaps during (?) his late show Friday night, Aries Spears (Note: His Web site warns it’ "may be inappropriate for children under 18," and the initial home page has him pictured grabbing a woman’s ass! This may come in handy, so to speak, later in this sentence, …
As we start to learn the names of those stand-up comedians picked for Comedy Central’s Live At Gotham tapings next month, we see a fairly definite pattern emerging from the early picks. To make it to Gotham, it seems, one must first have survived the battles of 2007’s Comedy Central …
Fans of Tim and Eric will be happy to know that cities and dates for Tim and Eric’s Awesome Tour this spring have been lined up. So far, it looks like this… April 21: Cambridge, MA, TT The Bears April 22: New York City, Highline Ballroom April 23: Minneapolis, North …
Another Friday, another double dose of new Comedy Central Presents half-hour specials. Tonight, it’s Eugene Mirman and Jordan Rubin (10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., Eastern). Present for both tapings, I somehow managed to barely take any notes during Rubin’s set. Except for this line: "Audience loved Jordan’s ‘energy.’" That’s good, …
(Note: If you’re looking for Nick Thune’s Missed Connections comedy song, as several readers who reach this post via Google search already have done so, then you need to click here for my report on his Comedy Central half-hour) If kids say the darnedest things, then Craigslist ads must be …
Did you know there’s an Underground Brooklyn Comedy Festival happening this Friday and Saturday? I almost didn’t know. That’s how underground it is. Nate Sloan (alter ego of friendly fellow comedy blog The Apiary, or is that the alter ego of Nate? anyhoosiers, let’s break out of this parenthetical device …
All Hip Hop reported today that Bill Cosby would be releasing his own rap album, titled State of Emergency. They quote unnamed sources and say Cosby’s rapping would be an extension of his recent speeches criticizing the black community for its failings in parenting, teen pregnancy, crime and education. I …
Scott Bateman, who animated the ECNY Awards nomination reels, here illuminates a track from Eugene Mirman‘s CD, En Garde, Society! Mirman’s Comedy Central Presents debuts on Friday, in which you can see him for real. Except he’ll be on television. Which means you cannot touch him for real. Enjoy.