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Last year, NBC’s Last Comic Standing showcased their "best of the worst" auditions during the finale. This time around, they couldn’t even wait for the audition phase to end before giving us their so-called most outrageous tryouts. That couldn’t be a good sign, could it? They’re even teasing the "most …
The third season of Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham — the show that replaced Premium Blend as the showcase for up-and-coming stand-up comedians and put them in a more intimate comedy club setting at NYC’s Gotham Comedy Club — debuts tonight at 10 p.m. after a not-so coincidental rebroadcast of …
Did you enjoy watching Kristen Schaal strip down to her Wonder Woman costume last night on The Daily Show? (Yes) Did you wonder if she had borrowed Seth Herzog’s WW outfit to do so? (Yes, but she didn’t, which means you can buy your own Amazonian superhero costume if you …
What more appropriate way to start celebrating a world record than with a closing set from the World Champion himself, Judah Friedlander. Much much more to come!
Almost there…almost there…stay on target…stay on target. We have put 49 hours of continuous stand-up comedy in the books here at Comic Strip Live, leaving one final hour to reach the finish and a potential Guinness World Record. Christian Finnegan has already performed, and the rest of this finale bill …
Eddie Brill just handed the reins of the show back to host William Stephenson for the final "regularly scheduled" two-hour show to get us to 50 hours, and Stephenson’s voice is breaking up a bit as he gets this final audience ready and rarin’ to laugh. "We’ve already done something …
We’ve reached the Final Four hours and some odd sights and fun sounds to report. Kerri Louise brought her youngest son to the club with her in a stroller, and when the boy cried out as Louise was onstage, she chose to treat him as if he were merely the …
Heather Fink got Top Chef 4’s Spike to let her tape his crotch and groin and whatnots for her new video that hit the Internets. It’s "Boner Tape!" Whether it’s safe for work or not depends upon you…enjoy! UPDATE: Video became unavailable Friday morning. Fink herself blogged: The powers that …
If I hadn’t mentioned this before, this whole record-setting comedy show also is a fund-raiser for the troops, and comedian Robert Kelly just got back from performing on a USO tour in Iraq. Kelly said he supports the troops, certainly, but he couldn’t help them out as a soldier himself. …
I’ll be otherwise preoccupied when tonight’s latest episode of Last Comic Standing airs on NBC, so it’ll take me until Friday to give you a full report. Thankfully, though, NBC already has provided a few clips of hopefuls coming out of tonight’s audition cities in San Francisco and Toronto. Sean …