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Notice something different about this video? Trick question. There actually are two things different about Michelle Buteau‘s appearance Tuesday night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: 1) The red curtains, which represent the new TV studio Ferguson started using on Monday, which means Buteau was the first stand-up comedian …
Get ready for another long-running multi-camera sex-laden sitcom from Charlie Sheen. His FX series, Anger Management, has secured its 90-episode back-order after hitting its contractual ratings targets for its first 10-episode season. FX made the announcement Wednesday. We don’t know what pre-determined ratings target the show needed to hit to …
Nothing up his Web sleeves… For his next trick, online daredevil — non-life-threatening division — Mark Malkoff has a simple request. He has invited Bill Murray over to his Queens apartment for dinner. Yes. That Bill Murray. Comedy superstar Bill Murray. All-around beloved-by-all-around Bill Murray. Ludicrous? No. Expecting Chris Bridges …
The Republican National Convention, delayed by Tropical Storm Luther’s path through the Gulf of Mexico and past the coast of Tampa as an impending hurricane, should restart officially tonight. President Obama’s “angry translator,” Luther — as portrayed by Keegan-Michael Key in this recurring sketch from the Comedy Central series Key …
If you thought comedians had launched enough podcasts for there to be a festival just for them, then you’re thinking what the fine folks at The People’s Improv Theatre in NYC were thinking. The PIT announced Monday afternoon it would host “the first-ever, first-annual” New York City Podcast Festival, starting on …
As Tropical Storm Issac threatens to hit New Orleans as a hurricane on the seventh anniversary that Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and region, it’d be wise to note that resident/satirist/musician Harry Shearer has a film you should watch, The Big Uneasy. Shearer — famous for his voice-work on The …
Flight of the Conchords released a brand-new single over the weekend. But “Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)” isn’t a typically funny song from the duo of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. No. It’s their very own “We Are The World” gone “We Are New Zealand” effort, as FOTC corralled …
The FOX NFL Sunday crew won’t have to face impersonations of themselves this fall. FOX announced during halftime of Sunday’s 49ers-Broncos game that Rob Riggle will take Frank Caliendo’s place on the network’s weekly pre-game show, beginning with the first Sunday of the NFL regular season on Sept. 9. Caliendo …
Head east from Maine and over to Nova Scotia, and there ye shall find the funniest people in all of Canada who made TV and movies in 2011. So sayeth the 2012 Canadian Comedy Awards, which gave out six awards to Halifax-based sketch group Picnicface last night during the award …
How committed is IFC to expanding its comedy brand of “Slightly Off, Always On?” The cable channel now has an Adopt-A-Comic program! First new member of the IFC family for 2012? Chris Gethard, one of the stalwart improv comedians and stand-ups from New York City’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. “This …
