The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 X feel, as that project is now absorbed into the mothership. Just as Super Deluxe once was? Yes and no. Meet the new AdultSwim.com. Same …
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.” Billed as “An alcoholic homeless man wreaks havoc on the world of a ’90s TGIF-style sitcom,” Family Bum stars Clint Carmichael, Aaron Glaser, Desiree Cooper …
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 its show, only to reveal to anyone watching MSNBC that Brand was the only person on set prepared to be on television. Seriously. How it …
“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 wouldn’t have been reason for such a fest in Chicago without The Second City‘s co-founder, Bernie Sahlins, who died at his home on Sunday. Sahlins …
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 battle with colorectal cancer. He was 58. From St. Louis, Ramey had made his home in New Orleans in recent years. He’d created “The Official …
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 City. Rain or shine. On June 26, 2013, Gabriel Iglesias hosts “Comedy Central Stars Under The Stars” in Central Park (near Fifth Avenue at 69th …
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, his wife and his five children on the TV as CBS Sunday Morning profiled him. Roll the clip! But wait. There’s more. Gaffigan also found …
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. How about seeing them on tour together?!? It’s happening over five weekends in August and September in a town or city near you in America, …
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 of it and take away lessons ourselves from it. Oswalt’s letter is an essay in three parts, covering, as the title suggests, joke thieves, heckling …
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 — Portlandia — for seasons four and five. The additional 10-episode seasons will air in early 2014 and 2015. “Portlandia has celebrated sustainable local agriculture, underemployment, …
