AdultSwim.com debuts new design, absorbs Thing X, and more
by There’s a new look today to AdultSwim.com. If it’s confusing to you, just think of how the fans and worker bees of the still-new Thing …
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Ben Seccombe’s “Family Bum” wins 2013 Comedy Central Short Pilot Competition
Comedy Central and the New York Television Festival announced today that Ben Seccombe‘s Family Bum had won the cable network’s second annual “Short Pilot Competition.” …
Russell Brand becomes only person on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” doing his or her job
Looks like CNN picked the right morning to relaunch its morning news program. Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, Monday’s “Morning Joe” invited comedian Russell Brand onto …
RIP Bernard “Bernie” Sahlins, The Second City’s co-founder (1922-2013)
“The TBS Just For Laughs Chicago festival wrapped up its fifth annual celebration of comedy in “the second city” over the weekend, but there probably …
RIP Rahn Ramey
Rahn Ramey, a stand-up comedian who worked the road and survived the comedy boom of the late 1980s, died on June 9 following a three-year …
Comedy Headlines for 6/17/13
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… Comedy Central has a seventh summer of free comedy shows planned in the parks of New York …
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CBS Sunday Morning profiles Jim Gaffigan for Father’s Day
Hope all of the comedians who are fathers enjoyed their Father’s Day on Sunday. Jim Gaffigan got to wake up on Sunday to see himself, …
Dave Chappelle, Flight of the Conchords to headline Funny or Die Oddball tour this summer
You’ve been waiting for another Flight of the Conchords tour for years. You’ve been waiting for a legitimate Dave Chappelle stand-up tour for years, too. …
Read Patton Oswalt’s “Closed Letter to Myself About Thievery, Heckling and Rape Jokes”
Patton Oswalt wrote “a closed letter” to himself yesterday on the Internet, which means we all can read it, hopefully identify with at least part …
IFC renews Portlandia for seasons 4-5, recruits James Carville to “Put an Emmy on It”
IFC announced yesterday that it’ll keep Fred Armisen plenty busy for his first two years post-SNL, renewing his pre-taped sketch comedy series with Carrie Brownstein …