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Oxygen has been documenting the lives of six stand-up comedians in Los Angeles, living together and trying to make it in show business. But this isn’t The Real World. This is Funny Girls. And now it can be told that the stars of Funny Girls, premiering 9 p.m. Tuesday, April …
Comedy Central and Jon Stewart’s Busboy Productions announced today the first all-stars booked for its biennial autism benefit, “Night of Too Many Stars: America Comes Together for Autism Programs,” and they include Bill Burr, Louis C.K., Jon Hamm, John Oliver, Paul Rudd and Amy Schumer. The 2015 edition of “Night of …
“We love what you do and we’re proud to be a part of it.” — That was Will Ferrell, calling in to the final live episode of The Chris Gethard Show on public-access Manhattan Neighborhood Network last week. So Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis will join Gethard as executive producers of …
Praise Touchdown Jesus! The Key and Peele Super Bowl Special, which debuted Friday night on Comedy Central, had only 11 days to put together topical sketches around the NFL’s title contenders, the defending Seattle Seahawks and the challengers, the New England Patriots. And yet. Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele and …
The opening monologue Seth Meyers delivered on Saturday night’s NFL Honors was everything you wished it could be and more, as Meyers roasted all of the league’s stars, Commissioner Roger Goodell, and the Super Bowl combatants: The New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks. If you’re a sports fan, you …
Comedy Central announced its latest development slate for webseries via CC:Studios, which has become more vital as a pipeline to TV this year as two previous CC:Studios projects — This Is Not Happening and Idiotsitter — have made or are making the leap from YouTube to boob tube. “I am …
My father’s family is from Boston; my comedy career began in Seattle. My alliances, therefore, remain neutral as an arbiter — at least at the start — of this Super Bowl face-off among comedians for ESPN’s “Enemy Territory.” In two days of segments for SportsCenter on your TV and online …
In case you missed it, Jemaine Clement has been at the Sundance Film Festival this week presenting a new film he stars in called People, Places, Things. Flight of the Conchords fans, however, keep wanting to know about that one thing and that one other person Clement performs with: Bret. …
The final episode of The Chris Gethard Show on MNN — Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s municipal access channel — opened tonight with the big announcement: When TCGS returns from its next hiatus in April, it’ll do so as a weekly series on Fusion. “Yes, we’re still going to book cool musical …
In case you missed it, Louis CK sent out a mass email yesterday — separate from the short missive notifying fans that his new stand-up special was now available for sale on his website, “Louis CK Live at The Comedy Store.” Here are the relevant parts, in which the 47-year-old …
