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Comedy Headlines for 11/15/12
by What’s happening in the comedy world now… Comedy Bang! Bang! is ending its 10-year-run as a live stand-up showcase in Los Angeles with a big …
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29 Steps to Getting Hollywood to Greenlight Your Feature Film
By Joshua Marston, writer/director of Maria Full of Grace, and director of recent episodes of Newsroom and The Good Wife. Neither that movie nor those …
Election Day 2012: Six years closer to “Idiocracy”?
A few days ago, actor Terry Crews popped up in a new series of videos on Funny or Die in character as President Camacho. Not …
Eddie Pepitone, “The Bitter Buddha,” on measuring his own success
It’s Eddie Pepitone’s birthday today. Happy birthday, Eddie! With a new documentary out about him, The Bitter Buddha, Pepitone (photographed above by Mindy Tucker) is …
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Comedy Headlines for 11/1/12
What’s happening in the comedy world now… When you first heard of Charlie Sheen’s 10-episode that could become 100-episode deal with FX for Anger Management, …
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Comedy Headlines for 10/26/12
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Adam Sandler is moving his moving-pictures business from Sony to Paramount — at least for his next trick, …
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Eddie Pepitone is “The Bitter Buddha” [documentary review]
We here may be called The Comic’s Comic. But what does that title even mean? And who embodies it? The given standard holds that a …
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Comedy Headlines for 10/22/12
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Stephen Colbert revealed he’ll have a cameo in the upcoming movie trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit. Or will …
As not seen on TV: A documentary about Channel 101
There’s a new documentary about Channel 101 which premiered at the inaugural RIOT LA Alternative Comedy Festival earlier this month. For those of you who …
Mike Epps to play Richard Pryor in biopic — but not about Pryor
Mike Epps will play Richard Pryor on the big screen, after all. It just won’t be in a movie about the legendary stand-up comedian and …