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Michael Cera’s efforts with JASH have paid off, as the short film he starred in, Janicza Bravo’s Gregory Go Boom, won a jury award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The 17-minute short, which debuted on JASH’s YouTube channel in May 2013 during YouTube Comedy Week, stars Cera as a paraplegic …
Which popular sitcom cast from the late 1980s and early 1990s isn’t reuniting for a Super Bowl commercial on this Groundhog Day?! That’s a fairer question, now that we know that the three father figures of ABC’s Full House — Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier — have reunited …
From the official NBC policy, regarding stand-by tickets for fans who want to attend the very live broadcast of Saturday Night Live: Stand-by tickets are distributed at 7am on the 49th st. side of 30 Rockefeller Plaza on the mornings of the show. You may choose a stand-by ticket for …
Tim Carvell, the head writer of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, celebrated his last day on Thursday. Carvell left to join John Oliver as executive producer of Oliver’s new weekly talk show that’ll debut on HBO later this year. Despite writing for Stewart for 10 years, Carvell …
More than three decades before Dave Chappelle rocked Comedy Central with his portrayal of “Clayton Bigsby,” and less than a decade after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech that capped off the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights, Bill Cosby delivered a devastating …
Adam Scott unveiled the billboard today for the fourth and final edition of his 1980s TV tribute series, “The Greatest Event in Television History,” which will air this Thursday night, Jan. 23, 2014, on Adult Swim. If the photo of Scott with Paul Rudd doesn’t jog your memory, that’s a …
Super Bowl commercials are airing earlier and earlier each year. Two weeks before the big football game to decide whether the Denver Broncos or the Seattle Seahawks are the NFL champions of the 2013 season at Super Bowl XLVII, Feb. 2, 2014, in East Rutherford, N.J., we’ve already begun seeing …
New cast, new host, great show and that’s far from the most I can say about how easy it is and was to ensure that Saturday Night Live got off to a good start for 2014. How did they not think of this before? Am I talking about making Drake a …
You know how they say jazz is all about the musical notes that you don’t hear? You don’t know that? Well, now you do. That’s how and why I laughed so much at Myq Kaplan’s performance on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman. Kaplan has done Letterman, before, and …
A lot can happen in four years. Just look up at that photo, from the last time we gathered to celebrate and commiserate over the stand-up comedy competition known as Last Comic Standing on NBC. Felipe Esparza, laying amid his cash-prize winnings on the floor in the foreground as the …
