The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you want to buy some solid stand-up comedy from the past couple of years, and have your purchases go to good causes, perhaps you might check out the new Humble Comedy Bundle. From the makers of Humble Bundle, the site is a limited-time-offer that allows you as a consumer …
Here’s one way to know you’re making it. You’re in a national TV commercial for a big brand, with a big star, but you’re the star of the commercial. Such is the case for stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress, who holds court on the basketball court in this new Nike commercial, …
And the winner of the first new sitcom to join the ranks of the new FXX programming lineup is…Chozen. FXX, which debuts in September as a younger, hipper offshoot of FX, ordered the animated comedy to series on Thursday. Chozen comes from Grant Dekernion, who’ll write, executive produce and star as …
What’s making news in the comedy world this week… Sundance Channel (with EW magazine) is bringing The Writers Room to TV this summer, beginning July 29. Hosted by Jim Rash (Oscar-winning screenwriter for The Descendants, actor/writer in Community), it’s six half-hour episodes of roundtable talk from TV writers — included …
Fantasy football leagues have become so widespread and commonly accepted as a hobby that it’s the focus of a long-running sitcom on FX, The League. Why not spin the concept out, and have a fantasy comedy league? That’s what the comedians at SiriusXM decided. Last Friday on “Fridays with Breuer,” …
For Conan O’Brien’s second installment of his Web-only uninterrupted talk show, “Serious Jibber-Jabber,” the front man for Team Coco on TBS welcomes writer/director/producer Judd Apatow to the table. Over the course of 69 minutes and change, we learn from Apatow that: Upon learning that one of Apatow’s first spec scripts …
The biennial Night of Too Many Stars benefit, hosted by Jon Stewart and organized by Robert Smigel, has reached new heights in 2012 for Comedy Central and for raising money toward autism research. The benefit show premieres Oct. 21, 2012, on Comedy Central, with a live phone bank taking your …
The Javits Center west of midtown Manhattan once again plays host this weekend to the annual New York edition of Comic-Con. While pop culture in the form of blockbuster movies and network TV has taken a lot of the shine away from comic books, Comic-Con — both the main San …
Eddie Izzard began his comedy career there as a rogue street performer. Demetri Martin made a name for himself there before becoming big in America. And even today, popular up-and-coming stand-up Hannibal Buress is going back there for a second consecutive summer to develop his next hour of material. There …
Hannibal Buress has a new CD and DVD coming out next week, hot off the heels of his Comedy Central special, “Animal Furnace.” To help promote it, Buress went on Conan last night. Want a taste? Roll the clip!
