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Dave Chappelle hasn't made another TV series since leaving Comedy Central behind five years ago, nor has he starred in a big-screen movie recently. So he must have disappeared, according to CNN, which devoted a "Where Are They Now?" segment to Chappelle this week. Where is he now? If CNN …
Earlier this month, The Comic's Comic told you how IFC was not only acquiring the rebroadcast rights to The Larry Sanders Show, Mr. Show, and The Ben Stiller Show, but also buttressing them with new interviews with stars of all of those instant classic comedies with Comedy Death-Ray's Scott Aukerman. …
Are you snowed in or know someone who is? I have good news for you, in the form of two new sneak previews of The Onion's two new series, which debut in a couple of weeks on Comedy Central and IFC. Onion SportsDome debuts Jan. 11, 2011, on Comedy Central, …
Back in 1981, HBO put Pee-wee Herman on the pop-culture map by airing his first stage production from Los Angeles. Now that Pee-wee's 2010 comeback has come completely full circle with a successful Broadway run, the pay-cable network will be broadcasting his new take on the Playhouse, three decades later. …
If you saw this ad for The PIT and wondered, hey, that looks familiar, that's because of course it does. The PIT calling its new East Side venue in Gramercy "PIT East: The Beast" is more than a little bit curious since The Upright Citizens Brigade is hard at work …
When I saw this poster for Pauly Shore's "Vegas Is My Oyster" show at Palms Las Vegas, I didn't quite know what to make of it. OK. So. Obviously Pauly isn't carrying the show, because he's getting help from Andy Dick, April Macie, Tom Green, Dave Navarro (wait a second, …
What more do you need to know? The HBO series that compiles Funny or Die videos returns in January 2011, and you and I can only hope that they do a better job of putting funny things together so it's more funny and less dying, because dying is no fun. …
A new documentary debuting tonight on PBS isn't particularly meant to be funny. The Calling follows seven young Americans as they follow their religious faiths to serve humanity. But in a side project called What's Your Calling?, the filmmakers have expanded the idea to just about anyone and everyone to …
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While books and blogs continue to perpetuate the "Late-Night Wars," the people who actually host late-night TV in the late-late night continue to provide evidence that all is well in the world still. At least well past midnight, where Jimmy Fallon and Craig Ferguson are concerned. Fallon and Ferguson have …