The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kurt Braunohler started performing comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York City in 1998, and took an experimental filmmaking improv group to the Edinburgh Fringe long before meeting Kristen Schaal — with whom Kurt would start a variety show called Hot Tub, win awards and kudos at festivals …
Evan Shapiro had run cable TV stations IFC, Sundance Channel, and Pivot before he launched Seeso, a streaming comedy service owned by Comcast and NBCUniversal in 2016. Shapiro went independent for a couple of years after that, but in May 2019, he took the reins as president of the National …
Bashir Salahuddin and Diallo Riddle met in college and became fast friends and comedy partners. But they did not take the typical path from Harvard to Hollywood. Their scenic route through show business included making their own videos before YouTube, to web series for a shuttered HBO website, to writing …
Carolyn Taylor, Jennifer Whalen and Aurora Browne met while performing with Second City Toronto. Later, Meredith MacNeill befriended Carolyn on the set of This Hour Has 22 Minutes. These four Canadian women joined forces to create, write, executive produce and Star in their own hilarious sketch comedy series, Baroness Von …
IFC has revealed its slate of potential new comedies in development for the coming year. They include: Almost Asian, about a perpetual outsider, Katie (Katie Malia, The Mindy Project), and her desperate journey to find her identity as both a dancer and a mixed-raced millennial struggling in Los Angeles. As with the web-series …
You ever want to play Bingo and watch TV at the same time? Yeah, me neither. But IFC is betting a bunch of you bingo-lovers would just love to play bingo on TV, and so tonight, they’re doing just that, at 8 p.m. during the broadcast of Fast and the …
The difference between independent and mainstream can sometimes be easy to see, as this weekend proved once again, with Saturday afternoon’s Independent Spirit Awards on IFC followed by Sunday evening’s Academy Awards on ABC. At the indie awards, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney returned to host for a second consecutive …
IFC will become FODtv (Funny Or Die Television) on Saturday nights, starting this Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. The network announced the venture today. “IFC has been hacked, but we are not calling IT,” said Blake Callaway, EVP, Marketing and Digital Media, IFC. “FODtv takes a bit of inspiration from cable access programs, and …
Haley Joel Osment was just a kid when he made his movie debut in Forrest Gump, racked up TV appearances as Jeff Foxworthy’s sitcom son and the Murphy Brown baby growing up, and earned his first Oscar nomination at the tender age of 11 for seeing dead people in The …
Put a bird on it? How about put a painting of a bird or any other piece of artwork you may have seen on an episode of IFC’s Portlandia, on the walls of your own home or office! More than 50 pieces featured in the Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein …
