The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A full 117 episodes into their weekly run on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network — beamed from New York City’s public-access cable TV to viewers everywhere online — The Chris Gethard Show jokingly allowed all of its regular panelists and irregular guest characters and audience members to make big announcements on …
You’re hankering for a slice of pizza, so you slide on into your favorite spot, and just as you’re satisfying your hunger pains, what to your surprise interrupts your everything but a stand-up comedian with his or her own microphone and camera crew?! That’s what happens in the first episode …
Just in time for the 15th annual Del Close Marathon, here’s an inside behind-the-scenes look at the Upright Citizens Brigade’s signature long-form improv show and form, “ASSSSCAT.” The long-running UCB ASSSSCAT show, which helps close out DCM and packs the theaters in New York City (and now Los Angeles, too) …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… FOX has reduced its order for episodes of new midseason comedy, The Goodwin Games, from 13 episodes to a seven-episode run, which includes the pilot plus six additional episodes. It stars Becki Newton, Scott Foley and T.J. Miller. USA has cancelled Fairly Legal …
Lorne Michaels has several TV productions in addition to his mainstay, his bread and butter, his original creation, Saturday Night Live. 30 Rock. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Up All Night. Portlandia. What’s left? The Web. Broadway Video, Michaels’ production company, debuted its Above Average channel on YouTube this summer. The …
How committed is IFC to expanding its comedy brand of “Slightly Off, Always On?” The cable channel now has an Adopt-A-Comic program! First new member of the IFC family for 2012? Chris Gethard, one of the stalwart improv comedians and stand-ups from New York City’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. “This …
Authors will go to many lengths to promote books, particularly their first one. They’ll do any and all interviews. They’ll go on tour to the smallest towns and oddest retail locations. And if you’re comedian Chris Gethard, you’ll take off your shirt and take on all other authors in a …
Last night whilst watching NBC’s Thursday-night comedy lineup, this holiday commercial for Target appeared and brought Chris Gethard into my home (and probably yours). Roll it! In related news, Gethard has a new memoir/autobiographical book of essays coming out in January 2012, titled A Bad Idea I’m About to Do: …
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 …
