Taping Comedy Central’s “Mash Up” special: Swan song for Blerds, or potentially its phoenix rising
by Earlier in the 2000s, a group of Chicago stand-up comedians began working together to make their careers a little more innovative and in tunes with …
Category: Interviews
NY1’s Pat Kiernan moderates a panel on Twitter and comedy, then shares what he enjoys about it
The two-day 140 Characters Conference in New York City ended its first full day of sessions yesterday with a panel on Twitter and comedy, moderated …
IFC’s Dan Pasternack on what the cable channel’s rebranding means: more alt-comedy on cable TV
Dan Pasternack became IFC's VP of Development and Production in February, in a press release from the cable channel that noted IFC had "restructured its original programming …
Brian Posehn on “Farts and Weiner Jokes,” singing, parenting, the Sarah Silverman Program and more
Brian Posehn's new CD, Farts and Weiner Jokes, comes out later this month, but Posehn will be signing and selling copies early to fans who …
Iliza Shlesinger puts up with more questions about Last Comic Standing and sexuality in comedy
Iliza Shlesinger is in New York City this weekend co-headlining at Comix with Kyle Cease. It's not as odd a pairing as when I saw …
John Mulaney on SNL, March Madness and headlining his first NYC weekend at Carolines
Georgetown is back in the NCAA men's basketball tournament, and comedian John Mulaney is pulling for his alma mater, albeit from far away, as he's …
Leslie Jones, aka Big Les, may be a “Problem Child,” but knows when to take Katt Williams’ advice
Memphis native Leslie Jones, aka Big Les, began doing comedy more than two decades ago when she was a student at Colorado State, but only …
Tom Green loves Internet broadcasting from his home, but hits the road for his first stand-up tour
Tom Green has enjoyed a lengthy career on the fringes, and sometimes the cutting edges, of broadcast comedy, from his cable access show in Canada, …
Executive producer Andrew Steele says HBO’s “Funny or Die Presents” is “true to us”
When the clock strikes midnight tomorrow night, and Friday blends into Saturday, TV viewers tuned into HBO will think they're time-traveling Lost-style, as psychedelic 1960s …
Americans will learn who Danny Bhoy is in 2010, but when exactly is “Subject to Change”
Scotland gave birth to curling, so I thought it somewhat appropriate that I was watching Winter Olympics curling action yesterday when I spoke with Scottish …