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Comedy Central decided to celebrate this year’s International Women’s Day by releasing the cable network’s first free streaming stand-up comedy special, Emily Heller: Ice Thickeners. Heller even opens her debut hour by joking in a pre-show interview that she wanted to film before an all-female audience, then acquiesces to allow some …
The Comedy Central Originals YouTube channel officially went live today. It’s where you can now find all of the network’s webseries and digital one-off content. Coinciding with this CC-change, the network also announced it’s premiering Emily Heller’s first one-hour special, Ice Thickeners, this Friday exclusively online via the recently launched …
Emily Heller got married! Heller explains why in this performance on The Late Late Show with James Corden, the origins and nature of her relationship with her husband. Heller has a very next-gen Elayne Boosler vibe going on with this set, and I mean that as the highest compliment, of …
Matt Braunger’s routine about an elevator ride from hell has become the first animated Snapchat show for TBS and Conan’s new series, Team Coco’s Comedy Club. New animated stand-up routines will debut Sundays throughout the winter, developed specifically for Snapchat’s mobile platform. You’ll be able to catch them on Snapchat from …
Becoming an aunt has provided Emily Heller with the proper perspective on both her parents’ capacity for love, as well as her abilities in comparison with her nephew. In Heller’s most recent stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, she observed why certain children have to be kept on leashes, and how …
Comedy Central’s “The Half Hour” moves from Boston to New Orleans and officially announces the 17 comedians recording their stand-up specials this June 1-4, 2016. Congrats to Cy Amundson, Erik Bergstrom, Ahmed Bharoocha, Matthew Broussard, Naomi Ekperigin, Nate Fernald, Noah Gardenswartz, Emily Heller, Martha Kelly, Joe Machi, Drew Michael, Aparna Nancherla, …
Feminism is not popular because it’s not fun? Maybe they should come up with T-shirts as catchy as the ones you already see people wearing that support misogyny. But only after listening to horrible radio. Emily Heller explains in this stand-up performance on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Roll …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! BABY GENIUSES (Ep. 74- Pat Cassels/Eliza Skinner) “Do …
After nine years of shows on two coasts, Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal’s “Hot Tub” variety show will get the double-album treatment in both vinyl record and digital formats this fall, thanks to Kill Rock Stars. They’ll be recording shows the following two Monday nights at The Virgil in Los …
Emily Heller lets the audience know there are definite do’s and do not’s when you’re housesitting. On this set from Wednesday night’s Conan, Heller recognizes that she is an adult woman, and there are better ways to treat a cat. Perhaps she should listen to a different radio station? Roll …
