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YouTube has announced its 20 semifinalists in his second Sketchies sketch comedy contest. Voting ends March 19 to whittle it down to the top 10 in the running for $25,000 in cash, $15,000 worth of production gear and an opportunity to meet with UTA Online Agents. See them all and …
What I like about Lewis Black’s new Comedy Central show, Root of All Evil: It takes the Tough Crowd formula, stand-up comedians talking smack about issues of the day, and refines it with tight focus without watering down the concept. These planned bits, the mock trial arguments, work better in …
Comedy Central released this image today of Gay Robot, the star of Nick Swardson’s new animated series. From my interview with Swardson last May…Most reports say Gay Robot is going to get a second chance as a cartoon. True?“Yeah, Gay Robot is still alive. Comedy Central had always wanted it …
And you thought Rififi was done when Invite Them Up left the building? No. Instead, Brett Gelman has taken over Wednesdays and assumed the title of President of Comedy. His "inauguration" took place last night. In a cockroach outfit. Let me try to explain. Perhaps Gelman himself said it best …
Hulu went live today for general public consumption. Haven’t had enough time to really root around, but just enough to unearth this clip from Bravo’s Inside the Actors Studio, in which Chris Rock talks about his audition for Saturday Night Live.
Looks like this spring and summer will see big changes for popular venues in both Los Angeles and Boston. Largo will close its current operations in mid-May to move into the larger Coronet Theatre in June (reports the L.A. Times). Meanwhile, Boston may see an even bigger shift from its …
Comedy Central has revealed its list of upcoming works and pilots under the modest heading: "The Future of Comedy." Next year, prepare for a fantasy-comedy set in medieval times, "Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire," written by Peter Knight. The pilots include projects by or featuring Snoop Dogg, …
Paging Hannibal Buress: I think we’ve just found your "next big blind guy." He’ll be running New York on St. Patrick’s Day.
The following comedy lesson is brought to you by Michael Showalter, The Slipper Room, the F train and Road Runner Internet service… Comedians make fun of each other all the time. Most of the time, however, the comedian poking fun and the target of the poking are good friends and …
So noted. Human Giant, 11 p.m. tonight, MTV.