The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Short-form animation is coming to Comedy Central in 2013, as the cable network ordered up eight episodes of Triptank from Alex Bulkley and Corey Campodonico (“Robot Chicken,” “Moral Orel”). The weekly half-hour series, premiering in fall 2013, will feature animated shorts in a variety of styles — including 2D, stop-motion …
If you haven’t heard Adam Wade tell a story from his life, then you really must one of these days or nights. Wade is an 18-time winner of The Moth‘s StorySLAM. His tales often look back upon his romantic idealism and how it conflicts with and yet still manages to …
Eddie Pepitone has serious daddy issues in this new clip released from the forthcoming documentary about Pepitone, The Bitter Buddha. The film premiered at Just For Laughs Chicago last month, and also screened once last week during Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. In this clip, taken from audio of Pepitone’s …
CMT is staying in business with the “Blue Collar Comedy” crew…and Lisa Lampanelli? That’s what happened when the Country Music Television channel green-lighted a 13-episode order for the animated sitcom, Bounty Hunters, which follows Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Lampanelli as animated versions of themselves who …
Could this be the final season of The Simpsons? The animated FOX sitcom, currently in its 23rd season, finds itself in another tough round of salary negotiations with its voice actors, with 20th Century Fox Television asking the cast to take a 45% pay cut to renew their contracts. That’s from …
What if Charles Schultz’s famous cartoon strip, Peanuts, actually aged out of childhood and into puberty? That’s what The Fine Brothers imagined in their most recent video, which makes me wonder, when was the last time you saw an animated child grow up? Hello, The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park …
If you’d like to have your stories animated by a professional, then the new UCBeast show Animated Stories is for you. It makes its UCBeast debut on Oct. 13, 2011, and Animated Stories will include this story from Chris Gethard about being an evil baby. Like, really evil. October’s winner …
“Hey, we’re back!” That’s what Jonathan Katz has been saying for the past few years and past few dozen podcasts for WKATZ. But Katz’s final “audio-only podcast” for WKATZ appeared online back in January. Fast-forward to August, and now we can not only hear Katz, but see the comedian you …
Comedy Central darling Daniel Tosh has earned a second series on the cable network, spearheading an animated comedy, Brickleberry, that’s written and created by comedians Waco O’Guin and Roger Black. The network announced an order for 10 episodes to premiere early in 2012. Brickleberry is based on a group of …
