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Trying to wrap my head around some comedy-related news to emerge last night (and no, not talking about the final minutes of Lost, though, wow). So I'm wondering how you feel about these two things that happened. First, we learned that the Farrelly Brothers and MGM finally look like they …
Anthony Jeselnik was a last-minute addition to last night's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and in doing so, became the first stand-up to perform on the show. Comedy trivia! Of course, Fallon's people knew Jeselnik was available, since he's a writer on the show, and he already has performed in …
Someday you'll find yourself Googling the phrase "I wonder what Rob Schneider has done lately," but instead you Google "I wonder what Rob Schneider looks like naked" — OK, that never happens, until it just did. Internet explosion. This will be the most NSFW thing you do today. Sometimes a …
Say the word "Trio" and you'll think of many things (but probably not about the short-lived cable network), which is why when I tell you about "Pilot Season," you'll maybe think of a real thing that happens in Hollywood each winter/spring, but you're not likely to think of the documentary …
Hours after TBS announced it'd give George Lopez the "Very Funny" network's 11 p.m. hour on Monday-Thursday nights come November 2009, Lopez himself took to the phones for his first conference call as a would-be talk show host. What have we learned already? For one thing, Lopez certainly isn't intimidated, …
Aside from the Comic Relief specials of years past, it's not often that you would have the chance to see an all-star Murderer's Row lineup of comedians live in one night's showcase. There are nights, though, when maybe if you could see into the future, you would have known that …
NYC-based stand-up comedian Matt Ruby, writer of comedy blog Sandpaper Suit, just got back from a weekend in Austin performing at SXSW. While all of the trendy people were Tweeting about it with a #sxsw here and a #sxsw there, Ruby went 2007 old-school and made his own mini-doc on …
Ready for another entrant into the late-night talk show wars? TBS announced today that George Lopez would launch his own 11 p.m. Monday-Thursday comedy chat show in November on the "Very Funny" cable network. Lopez will air against the late local newscasts, Comedy Central's Daily Show and Colbert Report, and …
On tonight's edition of Late Show with David Letterman, you'll hear Letterman say something you never thought he'd say again: "I got married." Which is why I'm mentioning it here. This is Letterman's second marriage. He and Regina Lasko have a 5-year-old son, Harry. From the home office (not the one …
The current print issue of New York magazine asked a bunch of insidery insiders in the show bidness to name their favorite funny people who have yet to make it big but coulda woulda shoulda someday, particularly if magazines such as New York would only profile them. It's like opening …