The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Hollywood isn’t the only place that recycles good ideas and is up for a reboot. Now it’s Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta that’s taking a good hard second look at Super Deluxe, the website that launched dozens of great funny webseries and one-offs in 2007 and 2008. Turner folded Super Deluxe …
Paul Scheer currently stars on the FX series, The League, co-stars on the ABC sitcom Fresh Off The Boat as well as the Hulu series, The Hotwives, which he also executive produces. Along with his longtime comedy buddy, Rob Huebel, Scheer just realized an all-star comedy showcase bus tour called …
Netflix helped take home multiple honors in the annual pay-to-play Webby Awards, with Funny or Die, CollegeHumor and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon also bringing in wins for their 2015 online efforts. Netflix’s special achievement victories came courtesy of Chelsea Peretti, named outstanding comedy performance for her stand-up special, …
After swinging his big dildo around Coachella over the weekend (you’ll have to look at Eric Andre’s Instagram for that), Eric Andre burst out of a pinata on Monday night’s Conan to make even bigger and more relevant news. There will be a fourth season of The Eric Andre Show …
Chris Wade produced this video piece for Slate on four of the people he thinks you should know in comedy who you may not always see in front of the camera. Who’d he pick out? Jonathan Krisel, writer/producer/director on such projects as IFC’s Portlandia, Comedy Central’s Kroll Show, SNL digital …
It’s labeled as an infomercial, but Too Many Cooks is unlike anything else you’d see as paid advertising on your TV at 4 a.m., let alone any of the other parody informercials that Adult Swim previously aired in its late-night programming block on Cartoon Network. If anything else on Adult …
If you’ve been to this summer’s Oddball Fest comedy tour, then you’ve probably seen Hannibal Buress saunter onstage sporting a jumpsuit with his face emblazoned across his chest, even larger than his real-life face. It’s even bolder than his previous move, releasing a single, “Gibberish Rap,” and bringing out a …
You’ve seen Tim and Eric on tour before, throwing food into the crowd and creating comic mayhem wherever they go. But what’ll happen when Oscar-nominated actor John C. Reilly joins them on the road for five weeks this fall? Well, when it’s not Reilly but his character, Dr. Steve Brule, …
If you haven’t been following Eric Andre’s Instagram feed, then here, please allow me to introduce you to it, and with it, some amazing teases to the production of season three of his bonkers late-night series, The Eric Andre Show, on Adult Swim. You can catch up with the first …
Norm Macdonald and Jim Rash will voice a cartoon series this fall solving mysteries with boxing great Mike Tyson — and that’s not the only odd buddy-buddy series coming this fall and winter to Adult Swim. The late-night bastion of the Cartoon Network unveiled its upcoming programming today (it’ll make …
