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The Friars Club Roast of Jack Black brought down the grand ballroom Friday afternoon at the New York Hilton, as upward of 3,000 of New York Friars Club members, dignitaries, celebrities and friends gathered to pay tribute to the actor/musician through one-liner barbs. Bob Saget served as the Roastmaster on …
File under April Fool’s Day real news: The Friars Club Comedy Film Festival is springing forward to springtime for its fifth annual celebration of comedy on film, opening in 2013 with Michael Urie’s film, He’s Way More Famous Than You. In Urie’s first feature as a director, written by Halley Feiffer …
Drunk History isn’t the first webseries to become a TV series, but it is among the more celebrated ones to make the jump. Comedy Central announced over the weekend at the TCA press tour that it had ordered eight half-hour episodes of “Drunk History” to air this summer. UPDATED: The …
Each year’s return to award season reminds us how comedy and comedians all too often are overlooked, marginalized or otherwise different enough from other performing artists such that, heck, how can anyone win, really? For every victory or nomination at the Academy Awards for individual achievement — screenplays are often …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… The Friars Club announced it will roast Jack Black in 2013. The 2013 Friars Club Roast will take place on April 5, 2013, in New York City. Over Thanksgiving weekend, “Never Not Funny” and Jimmy Pardo raised more than $108,000 during the fourth annual …
Do you need a little more Tenacious D in your life today? Have no fear. Jack Black and Kyle Gass are here. On your TVs, and now on your online videos, captured in separate performances on TBS for Conan (where they performed “Senorita”), and on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! for …
We haven’t heard much from Jack Black and Kyle Gass as the over-the-top musical duo Tenacious D since their first full-length feature film, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, failed to win over moviegoers or critics in 2006. But it’s 2012 now, and the boys have a good sense …
