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SiriusXM radio’s Raw Dog Comedy Channel will get a little more upright on Saturday nights, as it adds a weekly hourlong live radio show from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The shows aren’t exactly live, but they will be recorded in front of the UCB’s usual live audiences in New …
The summer blockbuster movie season usually brings about at least one box-office smash that also destroys at least one major city (or at least makes it seem that way, thanks to special effects), and more often than not, the city that gets plowed over is New York City. Robbie Collier …
Chris Hardwick is having a very productive 2011, and his growing Nerdist Industries empire now has newsletter publisher GeekChicDaily as a partner in that expansion. ‚ÄúI envision a Nerdtopia where video games are free, Cheetos are currency, and robot concubines sate our sexual thirsts. I am confident that Peter Levin, his …
Tom Rhodes has been a world traveler for several years now — he was living in Amsterdam when I met him almost a decade ago — but back in 1995, he had the long hair that you remember from his NBC sitcom Mr. Rhodes, and a lanky frame. Rhodes recently …
The inaugural Critics' Choice Television Awards announced their first slate of nominees today, and for those of you who bemoan the ritualistic snubbing of great TV comedies such as Louie, Community, Parks and Rec and Archer, well, no snubbing here! But the "critics" – who include correspondents from Extra, Access Hollywood, …
Stand-up comedian Ben Bailey — who has won an Emmy for his work hosting the Discovery Channel game show, Cash Cab — has added a second TV trivia game show to his resume. This time, Bailey is going primetime network, as NBC announced today that he'll be the host of …
For his role in the independent feature film, Stags, Jesse Joyce plays a brooding, alcoholic stand-up comedian. A real stretch, right? As Joyce readily tells his comedy club audiences, he no longer drinks. But he still can act drunk in the movies! Stags has its world premiere tonight at the …
A special two-DVD edition of the 2010 documentary, American: The Bill Hicks Story, finally arrives in America on Tuesday, June 7, 2011. And one lucky reader of The Comic's Comic can win it for free! The two-disc set includes more than five hours of extras, rarely seen footage, plus footage from …
Comedy Central was tooting its horn today, announcing that May 2011 ratings vaulted The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report to the top of the late-night heap – among all 11 broadcast network and cable channel offerings — in several key demographics. And they had the raw data …
Patton Oswalt wrote an essay titled "A Bit Dis-Remembered," exploring one of his famous older bits — on the Stella D'Oro Breakfast Treats, and his reaction to the old TV commercial for them. He went back to look at the ad, and how much it had resonated with him and how well …