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Speaking of great strides in 23/6 political music parodies…Detroit Octane is set to be the musical guest for the June 17 program of Late Night with Conan O’Brien. So, I suppose they’re going to perform Barack Obamasistible, then? Or do they have something new up their sleeves?
Hiding out from the heat, still, and my Google Reader points me to Videogum, who’s on top of the video situation, as always, and alerts me to the presence of a new McCain Girls video. This time, the Girls are asked to act more than they ever had before, the …
You didn’t think I sat through more than 50 hours of stand-up comedy last week and forgot to get some video of it, did you? So here’s a scattered selection of footage from the world record comedy show last week at Comic Strip Live. But first, let’s reflect on what …
Most comedians agree that once you’ve told a joke on TV, you’ve "burned" it and need to be wary of using it again and again in your live act. Which brings me to Gerry Dee. I like him. I like his jokes. But my big complaint about Dee is that …
Your TiVo or DVR is not playing tricks on you today. Gabe & Jenny’s favorite TV show, The Bill Engvall Show, will get a one-time airing tonight at 8 p.m. on the CBS television network. CBS and TBS made a marketing tit-for-tat shaky-shake deal, in which CBS plays an episode …
Tony Rock, last seen early Thursday morning entertaining Comic Strip Live patrons during the club’s world record marathon show, got some good news of his own over the weekend, as MyNetworkTV announced it had placed "The Tony Rock Project" on its fall 2008 schedule. It’ll air at 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays. …
Internet fameball Mary Rambin interviewed me around hour 48 of the Comic Strip Live 50-hour world record marathon comedy show. Rambin was very nice in person (much like her friend in fameballing, Julia Allison), which probably helps explain how they’ve gotten as far as they have already. Anyhow. This is …
Morning radio guys Opie & Anthony are great comedy fans and do a lot to support stand-up comedy. If only Opie & Anthony’s fans liked comedy. Instead, they prefer acting like idiots and booing most anyone who comes onstage, challenging stand-ups to abuse them back. O&A calls their fans pests. …
If anyone among us remembers first seeing Ant on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, we remember that he was a gay guy making a joke about boxing that got celebrity guest judge Joe Rogan all fired up and alleging joke thievery. That was oh so long ago, wasn’t it? Ant made …
Here you go, the full three-minute live audience performance from Iliza Shlesinger that earned her a ticket to the semis on this season’s Last Comic Standing.