The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central unveiled its full development slate for 2011-2012, although let’s face it, we already knew about some of these upcoming series, and any/all of them won’t find it to the airwaves until 2012. Details, details. Let’s take a closer look! First, the previously announced series that have been ordered. …
Michael Palascak was on Late Late Show Ferguson, and had no problems talking about his food allergies or his experiences playing high-school football. Did you know he grew up in a small town in Indiana? Find out what that must have been like, and more. Roll the clip!
This clip of Louis CK discussing his theories on evolution is freely on YouTube, because he cut the bit from the final edit of his upcoming special, “Live at the Beacon Theater.” So sit back and enjoy it! As he wrote in the YouTube description: This is an excerpt or …
Less than a week after shuttering its four entertainment blogs and firing the staff, Yahoo! announced today that it would be launching the Yahoo! Comedy Channel in February 2012. The launch coincides with Yahoo!’s first exclusive free online broadcast of a stand-up special, “CrazyStupidPolitics: Bill Maher Live from Silicon Valley,” on …
The end of the calendar means awards season is upon us, so without further ado, let’s find out our nominees in TV comedy from both the Producers Guild of America as well as the Writers Guild of America (East and West branches). First, the WGA nominees… COMEDY SERIES 30 Rock, …
New York City sketch troupe Murderfist is known for their live stage show debauchery, so can they clean it up for a weekly video showcase on My Damn Channel? Let’s take a look at their first video, which takes us behind the scenes of the taping for the classic jingle of …
Sean Patton has been accused of looking like others, but how about like an owl? That’s what he divulged last night on Conan, in addition to quitting smoking — and, by the way — nice shout out for The Creek and The Cave! Roll the clip.
Do you have a lucky shirt for stand-up, or particularly for TV appearances? Does Henry Cho? I ask because when he popped up on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson this week, it looked like he went with the same collared shirt he wore on Ferguson last year. Perhaps it’s …
Just no. A million times no. The Farrelly Brothers went ahead and remade The Three Stooges, and even though we all asked them not to, they did it anyway. And in the first movie trailer, we see that they even found ways to make it worse than we had imagined. …
Some comedians like to push the envelope. Tig Notaro likes to push the stool. No, really. Tig showed us what she means last night on Conan. Conan seems to have found its own personality in finding comedians it likes and featuring them multiple times. Count Notaro among those favorites. Roll …
