The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“Let me explain something to you about the Mac man. I love who I am. I love what I have become. And most of all, I have nothing but respect for those who have followed me. I don’t do things for dollars and cents. I owe my craft to my …
Turns out Comedy Central loved Mash Up, after all. Almost a year since broadcasting the initial stand-up/film/visual comedy special from T.J. Miller and director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, Comedy Central has ordered eight new half-hour episodes of Mash Up. The original special featured Hannibal Buress, Kumail Nanjiani, Matt Braunger and Kyle Kinane. …
Comedy Central Presents is dead. Long live the new half-hour comedy special for the cable network, named, well, The Half Hour! And Comedy Central is heading up to Boston at the end of this month to tape them. But who will be featured in the inaugural season for 2012? Meet …
For its first-ever venture into the United States, Amnesty International’s Secret Policeman’s Ball certainly seems intent on making a big and funny splash across the pond when it takes place March 4, 2012, at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall. The benefit’s lineup includes comedy and music from the likes of …
The media loves a trend and we gots ourselves one now, as Jim Gaffigan announced overnight that he would sell his upcoming CD exclusively on his own website for $5, donating $1 from each sale to The Bob Woodruff Foundation for injured war veterans. Gaffigan acknowledged that the recent example …
Patrice O’Neal’s posthumous stand-up comedy CD, Mr. P, is a worthy successor to his brilliant 2011 CD/DVD, Elephant in the Room. Not that Patrice would care at all what I or anyone else had to say about it. Patrice was about the work, onstage, and being just real offstage as …
The ascension of Louis CK as America’s top comedian continues as he won the Grammy this year for Best Comedy Album for “Hilarious,” which debuted as a feature film at Sundance in January 2010 but only came out in CD form in January 2011. If for some unknown reason, you …
It may be pilot season in Hollywood for the networks, but cable operates on its own schedule, and TBS announced on Friday that it had ordered a 10-episode first season for Steve Byrne’s sitcom, Sullivan and Son, to premiere this summer. Byrne told his Facebook friends: “Hey everyone! I wanted to …
Nick Swardson announced the end of his Comedy Central sketch comedy show, Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time, after its second season. Swardson told his Facebook friends on Tuesday night: “I regret to inform everyone Pretend Time is over. The ratings were solid but it was too expensive for the network and …
Pete Holmes debuted as the talking E*Trade baby in a Super Bowl ad a couple of years ago, and his spokesbaby campaign is still going strong, and during Super Bowl XLVI, he returned with comedian Nick Cobb standing by the baby in a hospital maternity ward. Cobb appeared in his …
