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The Whitest Kids U’Know make their second-season splash at 11 p.m. tonight on IFC, followed by a half-hour highlights package from their first season back on FUSE. The IFC promos make much of the fact that the Whitest Kids can now be seen uncensored, and tonight’s episode certainly reminds you …
Is season six set up to be the year for the duo? Both God’s Pottery and Stone & Stone advanced last night out of New York City’s Last Comic Standing auditions and performance showcase. I’ll have much more to say on this, but wanted to get the main news out …
Two things to remember when you watch the debut tonight of Nick Thune’s half-hour Comedy Central Presents. 1) See that "bird" that flaps around in the camping background? That bird prompted three, count ’em, three reshoots just so they could get it on camera. Was it worth it? 2) Thune’s …
Michael Showalter hosts tonight’s special Comedy Central Presents: My First Time, which explores the early jokey jokes and stand-up starts of Showalter, Michael Ian Black, Mike Birbiglia and Bonnie McFarlane. Here, let Showalter explain it. During the taping back in August, Showalter explained to the audience that this show wouldn’t …
Callbacks continue today in New York City for NBC’s Last Comic Standing, with stand-ups getting interviewed and getting seen multiple times before tonight’s final performances at Gotham Comedy Club. There’s another round set for 2 p.m. In the meantime, last year’s fourth-place finisher, Amy Schumer, took a few moments last …
Jerry Seinfeld dropped in Thursday night for a surprise 25-minute set at the Comedy Cellar during the early show, didn’t stay long afterward. Just in case you were curious about such things.
The Funny or Die comedy tour, with Will Ferrell presenting Zach Galifianakis, Nick Swardson and Demetri Martin, played to a sold-out crowd last night at Ohio State University. Then, for reasons not entirely explained in this photo (nor even on her Tumblr), Martin flew back to New York City on …
Based on the past couple of Human Giant appearances outside of their UCB-NY home (well, OK, not that far outside their home, in separate visits to Rififi), I’ve borne witness to some funny stuff in the making, both for their upcoming live stage tour and their second season on MTV. …
NBC’s Last Comic Standing rolled its circus into New York City this morning, and I boycotted it. Sort of. If you read my Feb. 1 post, you’d already know that this "reality" "contest" has no intention of really helping elevate the public’s opinions and attitudes about the art of stand-up …
Comedy Central officially makes this weekend Mike Birbiglia Weekend, airing a special Comedy Central Presents My First Time (in which Birbiglia, Michael Showalter, Michael Ian Black and Bonnie McFarlane talk about their earliest forays in stand-up) on Friday night (10:30 p.m. Eastern), followed by the debut at midnight Saturday of …