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Comedy Central won the battle for late-night viewers under 35 years old during the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Now they’re looking to take it to their “real” cable news competitors with a series of TV commercials that blast them while touting Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2012” coverage — with Jon …
Comedy Central is bringing back its “Night of Too Many Stars” benefit fund-raiser show for 2012, with Jon Stewart returning as host. The performance lineup so far includes Hannibal Buress, Bill Burr, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Amy Poehler and Seth Rogen — plus Bill O’Reilly from FOX News and Rage …
Chris Rock appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night, ostensibly to promote his new movie, 2 Days in New York, as well as sneak in a mention of the new FX talk show he’s executive producing, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. In between all of that, …
In case you missed it Sunday night, Comedy Central has put the entire half-hour special online of Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York. It’s “Between Two Ferns” as you love it, but as you’ve never seen it before. Imagine one of those silly Barbara Walters pre-Oscars interview specials, …
The Comedy Awards 2012 — second annual edition of the revived ceremonies for the comedy industry to honor working comedians and comedic actors — returns to Comedy Central on Sunday, May 6. Since the awards ceremony was taped last weekend in New York City, we already know the winners for …
As if you need to be reminded, but Funny or Die is producing a special half-hour episode of its popular webseries, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, which will premiere on Sunday, May 6, immediately before the second annual Comedy Awards on Comedy Central. The special, Between Two Ferns: A …
In case you don’t listen to the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast as soon as Earwolf releases a new one to you hounds, then here’s the news as delivered by Scott Aukerman in the third-year finale of CBB: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is going a full half-hour! On TV! …
With late-night TV pretty much done for the year (everyone’s airing repeats or is pre-empted for holiday programming for next week’s final week of 2011), we can take a step back and see who’s doing well and who didn’t make it to year’s end. How your favorite late-night talk show …
Some of the people who have joined the Occupy Wall Street movement in NYC and other cities across America may be ridiculous, but the movement is anything but. Comedians, of course, are trying to tap into the activist community to both help it and mock the system. This week, we’ve …
Living in New York City, it’s difficult to get through a September 11 without thinking about what happened that day in 2001, and yet I hadn’t planned on mentioning it here. Then I saw that two-hour documentary on CBS, 9/11: Ten Years Later, which saw two brothers filming the FDNY’s …
