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About 20 minutes into his first hourlong stand-up comedy special, Adam Devine jokes about his love for capes, and imagines wearing one for this taping but never mentioning it. Spoiler alert: He not only mentions the cape some more, but also sports it at the very end. Ta-Dah! What’s weirder …
Danny McBride will star in his third outrageous HBO comedy series soon enough. The cable giant announced Tuesday it had ordered The Righteous Gemstones to series. With his writing/directing/producing partners Jody Hill and David Gordon Green, they’ve previously released critically-acclaimed bonkers comedies Eastbound & Down and Vice Principals for HBO. …
In case you missed it over the weekend, Comedy Central debuted the first-ever televised edition of The Goddamn Comedy Jam, the live concert held monthly in Los Angeles. Comedians tell stories and stand-up jokes that relate to a song of their choosing, then belt out that song with a full …
The Goddamn Comedy Jam has been making the rounds of major North American comedy festivals for the past year (next stop: Bonnaroo!), and later this month, will film its first hourlong special for Comedy Central. The Goddamn Comedy Jam TV special will feature Pete Davidson, Adam Devine, Jim Jefferies, Natasha Leggero and …
Comedy Central has announced the premiere night and lineups for season 3 of Adam Devine’s House Party, which moved out off the Pacific Ocean to film in Hawaii! Adam Devine’s House Party returns Thursday, March 3, 2016, at 12:30 a.m. ET/PT, for a 10-episode run, set at Turtle Bay Resort in …
The things you clicked on more than anything else I posted in 2015. Without further ado… 1. Yearbook photos for Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc (as depicted in junior high and high school in Newton, Mass., where they were classmates!), which make any day a great TBT and a chance …
When Adam Devine burst into our national consciousness — not just through his starring role in Comedy Central’s Workaholics, but also through a national ad campaign and a plum role in the singing feature film Pitch Perfect — I was far from the only person to notice how Devine reminded …
The second season of Adam Devine’s House Party premieres tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30 p.m., before settling into its regular time slot, overnight Thursdays at 12:30 a.m. Eastern/Pacific (11:30 p.m. Central/Mountain). The Comic’s Comic interviewed Devine before season one of his “House Party” debuted in 2013. This year, Devine …
Comedian, actor, writer and director Jay Leggett died suddenly over the weekend, collapsing after a hunting trip with family in his native Wisconsin. Leggett was 50. Leggett, born Aug. 9, 1963, grew up in Tomahawk, Wisc. (where he died), and graduated from University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He was a product of Chicago’s legendary …
Adam Devine’s House Party debuted last week and airs late-late night on Thursday nights into Friday mornings on Comedy Central. It’s different from your typical stand-up showcase not only in its set-up — Devine invites young comedians over to his rented mansion for a big ol’ bash and films sketches …
