The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In Case You Missed It! Comedic icon Bill Murray — famously without an online presence or an offline management/representation system to deal with all of us, and infamously famous for showing up in the most likely and unlikely of places — combined both of these traits to do the most …
How would you open a musical stage production about the inner workings of stand-up comedy? Jason Saenz and Jake Young have opened theirs with this little number, “How’d You Get That Show?” Two things to note off the top: Saenz and Young first performed this song live a few months …
Well, this is going to be interesting. As interesting as finding out how and who at FX decided upon which photos of Jim Norton and Lindy West to use? Who knows… Ready or not, though, late-night TV talk shows will offer something audiences haven’t seen much of in a generation …
Erin Judge is a stand-up comedian who appeared on Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham. Judge tours everywhere with her Pink Collar Comedy Tour and also co-produces The Afterlife, a monthly comedy showcase in New York City. This is republished from her blog, So Make It Up, with the author’s permission. it’d be nicer if …
Look out, Comedy Central and IFC. Watch it, Leno, Letterman, Kimmel and Conan. FX officially is slicing right up the middle with its announcement today of an all-new comedy network/channel on cable, branded FXX — complete with a slew of renewals for its existing comedy series and an upgrade of …
Hey, comedy fans! I thought I’d roll out a new weekly feature to improve The Comic’s Comic’s comedy comedy coverage coverage. It’s called the Monday Open Comedy Thread, or, you didn’t even need to guess it because it’s in the headline: MOCT. Each Monday, I’ll post a short video talking …
Have you ever looked at YouTube and seen people you’ve never heard of rack up millions of views and wonder, how did that happen? How could that happen for me? Well, you may be in luck. Maybe. YouTube has launched a new development and mentoring program called YouTube Next Comic. …
A new season of SNL also brings other comedians out of the woodwork to say, “Hey, I did that comedy sketch first!” When it’s an absurd topic, you might have a case to make. When it’s the idea that a dying soldier would have terrible choices for his last request …
Over the summer, Gary Rudoren (co-author of Comedy By The Numbers) told me he had a brilliant idea for another comedy book. Rudoren wanted to publish an oral history of the Upright Citizens Brigade. But he said he was too busy for it. Turns out I was too busy to …
As the 2011 New York Television Festival hits its own homestretch this weekend, it has announced a new initiative with Comedy Central that seeks original comedy pilots and scripts, with the top submission receiving a $7,500 development deal from the network next year. “The NYTVF is thrilled to partner with …
