29 Steps to Getting Hollywood to Greenlight Your Feature Film
by By Joshua Marston, writer/director of Maria Full of Grace, and director of recent episodes of Newsroom and The Good Wife. Neither that movie nor those …
Samuel Comroe’s late-night TV debut on Conan
Samuel Comroe made his late-night TV debut last night on Conan, thanks to Ricky Gervais, and even more specifically, thanks to Comroe winning Gervais’ Just …
Marcus Monroe wins the eighth annual Andy Kaufman Award
In what other competition but the Andy Kaufman Awards will you find a juggler competing against a ventriloquist, a street performer, two actors in character …
Comedy Headlines for 11/14/12
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Brandon T. Jackson officially has landed the lead role in the CBS TV reboot of Beverly Hills Cop …
Ellen DeGeneres addresses Kate McKinnon’s SNL impersonation of her, on “Ellen”
If you watched Saturday Night Live last weekend, then you saw Kate McKinnon impersonate Ellen DeGeneres in a sketch making light of the silliness that …
MTV2 reboots Nick Cannon’s “Wild ‘N Out”; enjoy old clips with Kevin Hart, Katt Williams, Taran Killam
In honor of MTV2’s decision to reboot Nick Cannon’s improv comedy series, Wild ‘N Out, let’s look back at some past episodes from the four …
Comedy Headlines for 11/13/12
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Lena Dunham’s Girls has yet to return for season two, but executive Judd Apatow and HBO have dropped …
Day job in primetime: Justin Silver goes “Funny For Fido,” hosts “Dogs in the City” on CBS
Comedian Justin Silver didn’t quit his day job, and he earned primetime network TV exposure because of it. While stand-up comedians have racked up TV …
Watch Comedy Central’s 2012 “Comics To Watch”
Comedy Central continued its recent tradition of hosting its own variation on a “New Faces” showcase during the New York Comedy Festival. Comedy Central calls …
Darryl Lenox on his “Blind Ambition” and reaching for the Starz
For Darryl Lenox, hindsight was 20/20. An incident in his young adult life left Lenox almost permanently and completely blind, and the comedian discusses it …