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Amy Schumer allowed her sometime opening act to perform the closing number this time for the first season of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer. Bridget Everett also appeared in the “Sex Tips” magazine sketch earlier in the season finale of Schumer’s series, before performing a musical number, “Titties,” at the …
Owen Benjamin‘s new special, which debuts on Comedy Central tonight and comes out in a combined CD/DVD package on July 2, finds him walking the streets of Austin, Texas, high-fiving strangers. It’s the opening for “High Five Til It Hurts.” Why Austin? “It’s such a cool city. It’s the combination …
Well, I mean. Really, now. You didn’t think the lawyer for George Zimmerman could open his defense arguments in the Trayvon Martin murder trial with a knock-knock joke and get away with it, did you? While plenty of comedians let the lawyer’s joke have it via Twitter and Facebook retorts, …
The half-hour edition of Funny or Die’s Drunk History premieres on Comedy Central on July 9, but you can watch the preview online now. In this episode, we’re treated to stories about Woodward, Bernstein and Watergate; the brothers Edwin and John Wilkes Booth; and Elvis meeting Nixon in the White …
Comedy Central has ordered NerdMelt’s flagship stand-up variety comedy showcase to series, greenlighting more episodes of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. Kent Alterman, Comedy Central’s original programming chief, said in the release: “I’m shocked to learn this show will be taped in the back of a comic book store, rather …
Comedy Central and the New York Television Festival announced today that Ben Seccombe‘s Family Bum had won the cable network’s second annual “Short Pilot Competition.” Billed as “An alcoholic homeless man wreaks havoc on the world of a ’90s TGIF-style sitcom,” Family Bum stars Clint Carmichael, Aaron Glaser, Desiree Cooper …
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… Comedy Central has a seventh summer of free comedy shows planned in the parks of New York City. Rain or shine. On June 26, 2013, Gabriel Iglesias hosts “Comedy Central Stars Under The Stars” in Central Park (near Fifth Avenue at 69th …
“Let’s just all acknowledge for a moment that this is weird. It looks weird. It feels weird. It even sounds weird. It sounds weird to me and this is my actual voice.” — John Oliver, opening his first episode as guest host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, June …
Comedy Central has unveiled a new CC: Stand-Up app for iPhones and iPads and iPod Touches. It’s free for those devices only so far at www.AppStore.com/CCStandUp. A quote from today’s press release: “At its simplest, CC: Stand-Up is a digitally distributed, pure stand-up channel, in which fans can immerse themselves for …
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… Johnny Carson is coming back to your TVs in primetime, with Conan O’Brien hosting The Tonight Show once more? Yes, yes, and here’s why and how: A remix of classic interviews called Carson on TCM bows Monday nights this summer, starting July …
