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As I predicted the moment TBS signed up Conan O'Brien for late-night, the cable network has announced that it'll be taping a TBS special with Team Coco for Just For Laughs Chicago! With a catch. It's not going to be an exact replica of the Team Coco live show currently …
The Friars Club has announced the finalists among sketch and improv groups competing for cash prizes at the first FrISC competition to be held June 25-26 at the UCB Theatre in New York City. Improv groups will perform June 25; sketch groups on June 26. The winning sketch and improv …
I get so tired about people debating the topic of whether women are and/or can be funny. Yes, they can. Yes they can. Yes they can. Seriously. I think the problem is that stand-up comedy is so dominated by men, that the female numbers remain so small by comparison that …
Brian McMullen wrote in Salon today that he is putting together a McSweeney's book of self-portraits doodled by creative types, with help from author and creative type Jonathan Ames. You can give Salon 20 more page-view clicks by viewing their slideshow. I've saved you one click by sharing with you …
Mystery Team may not have made The Hangover money in 2009 — Derrick Comedy's feature-film debut earned all of $89,442 in box-office receipts from its limited distribution in cinemas, according to Box Office Mojo. I think it may have been one of the more criminally overlooked comedies of the year. …
I know that Bill Blumenreich, operator of The Wilbur Theatre (and former owner of the Comedy Connection) in Boston, has Celtics season tickets right behind press row, because I'd seen him on camera before. Well, Blumenreich decided to use his high-profile seat last night to promote Frank Caliendo, and more …
Too soon? Or just right? Either way, the Kennedy Center has announced that Tina Fey will be honored this fall with the 13th annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Fey will be feted Nov. 9, 2010, at the Kennedy Center by her peers and more in the annual event …
I received an email from "Jerry & George" telling me that they're launching new "Web-only" episodes of Seinfeld on Thursday, May 27. If that's not odd enough for you, take a look at their trailer. It seems as though after 21 years of being on the TV in new episodes …
Showing that he continues to be hip to new technology, Jimmy Fallon and his NBC Late Night crew are kicking off another first for network television tonight with "Watch Jimmy with Jimmy Week." Each night, Fallon's Late Night UStream live webcast will start about an hour before the show itself …
I saw this Videogum post and thought, well, if Netflix offers all of the half-hour Comedy Central Presents, then maybe they'd be crazy enough to offer the first three seasons of Live at Gotham and all nine seasons of Premium Blend? Why, yes, they are that crazy. Well, calm down. …