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In case you still were wondering, Nick Swardson's Pretend Time will return for a second season on Comedy Central. Production is ongoing already. Shooting for a fall 2011 broadcast, but no times and dates have been announced officially. On the show's Facebook page, Swardson and company recently wrote that they'll include …
Sunday morning, I know, is a time for you kids to sleep in, or if you're even awake in those hours, you're brunching as if your lives depended upon it. Well, you do need food to survive. So there is that. But still. If you watch CBS Sunday Morning, then …
Team Coco provides full coverage of Coco, and showed it over the weekend by uploading Conan O'Brien's commencement address to the Dartmouth College class of 2011. Jokes ensue. Roll it.
Julian McCullough made his network TV debut last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and if you're curious as to why Stephen Colbert was Tweeting about it earlier, then perhaps it might behoove you to attend a taping of The Colbert Report and watch McCullough perform beforehand to warm-up …
Ben Kronberg recently sat down with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon to talk to them about their new movie, The Trip. But shortly after Brydon showcased his Bruce Springsteen impersonation, things took a turn, as one cheeky bastard called out another cheeky bastard. Roll it if you got it! …
OK, so, spoiler alert? Sacha Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles descended upon Astoria — the friendly neighborhood of Queens, NY — this week with cast and crew to film scenes for their next collaboration, the 2012 comedy, The Dictator. Paramount Pictures even released the first "official" photo from The …
Bill Burr, tour guide? In March, Burr led a driving tour around Los Angeles, where he has been living for the past couple of years when he's not on the road as a touring headliner comedian. In May, while back in New York City for a weekend of shows at …
Last night on TBS, late-night neighbors Conan O'Brien and George Lopez paid a visit to each other's talk shows, in chronological order. First, Lopez guested on Conan. Then O'Brien guested on Lopez Tonight. Logistically, it's an easy cross-promotion to pull off, as they not only work for the same network but …
You may remember seeing James Adomian on NBC's Last Comic Standing, or perhaps you remember hearing him on the Comedy Bang Bang podcast (or perhaps even still, you already know him from reading about him here on The Comic's Comic. Regardless, late-night TV audiences got to see Adomian for the …
Montreal's Just For Laughs Festival has announced its 2011 slate of programming for the concurrent Zoofest, which provides more fan-friendly pricing (a pass to all of the shows costs $39.99 CDN) and books more "alternative" acts and black-box one-person shows to the comedy confab in July 2011. Among the English-language offerings this summer… …