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The season two finale of Human Giant airs on the MTV on Tuesday, April 15, but this video has just leaked to the Internets. Rob Huebel tries his darnedest to intro a news piece for "Meth in Montana." Enjoy!
Kumail Nanjiani’s one-man show, Unpronounceable, plays at 8 p.m. April 11 and April 25 at the UCB Theatre in New York City. (Tickets: $8. Info) Some reviews of Kumail Nanjiani’s one-man show (which debuted in Chicago under the direction of Paul Provenza, and has moved with him to New York …
Tickets go on sale at noon today for the two New York City dates at Town Hall for Flight of the Conchords, so I thought I’d look and see what other comedy tours are hot sellers. Flight of the Conchords at Town Hall (NYC) May 6-7. Get tickets!Lewis Black has …
This just in. YouTube user kdlmd243, who previously has uploaded NBC promotional content for our mutual enjoyment, now provides us with five "unaired" and "uncensored" looks at the upcoming season of Last Comic Standing 6 (a tip of the hat to my friend Todd at Dead-Frog for finding this). It’s …
Around the same time that Jon Glaser’s Barack Obama-sistible song parody hit the Internets, the folks at 23/6 also decided to pluck a YouTube video from obscurity and shine a spotlight on the McCain Girls. Coincidence? The Washington Post didn’t think so, and suggested a connection in a March 24 …
The ongoing coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign has taken more than a few funny turns in the past month, and Jon Glaser is responsible for one of those turns. Here, he and his "band" Detroit Octane display their prowess for song parodies by penning and explaining their new hit …
Anyone who worried about the future of comedy on HBO after the departure of Chris Albrecht and the end of the Aspen festival can maybe take a quick sigh of relief. Sue Naegle, named HBO’s new president of HBO Entertainment yesterday and put in charge of all series programming and …
After much delay and even more prodding, Louis CK pulled back the curtain and launched a newly designed online presence. In doing so, he revealed that while filming "a far bigger part than I am qualified to do" in Ricky Gervais’ new comedy, This Side of the Truth (in production …
Last night’s special "on-air" edition of Jon Friedman’s Rejection Show featured some very fresh and updated tales of failure and humiliation from comedians. Carolyn Castiglia, castigated by not only anonymous online commenters but also on TV by Jimmy Kimmel (ABC) and Joel McHale (E!) for her performance last year on …
One thing comedians always love to mention about the New York City scene is the ability to book multiple gigs any night of the week. They don’t often mention that all of these gigs are not equal. Take Tuesday night, for example, when Daily Show correspondent John Oliver taped a …