UCB expands development slate with NBCUniversal’s TV, cable TV and Seeso
The Upright Citizens Brigade founders have a knack for announcing big news on the eve of their...
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Tag: Julie Klausner
Maybe See TV? The month in pilots, script commitments and development deals (Dec. 27, 2014)
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which...
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Late-night TV talk show hosts, comedians and critics remember Joan Rivers
Almost every comedian I know shared a photo and/or an anecdote about Joan Rivers tonight in the...
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Where are they now? Where will they be someday? New York City improvisers captured in The Mug Shot Journals
Keith Huang studied improvisation at The People’s Improv Theater and trained at New York...
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Comedy Central cancels Ugly Americans
Comedy Central has cancelled Ugly Americans. If this is news to you, or even more so, if you...
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The PIT to launch an annual New York City podcast festival
If you thought comedians had launched enough podcasts for there to be a festival just for them,...
Read MoreJulie Klausner’s “What’s What” on Super Deluxe
Julie Klausner and Michael Kupperman produced three shorty shorts on video for Super Deluxe, and right about now, you’re thinking, oh, I probably never saw them because I’ve stopped clicking to Super Deluxe, and even...
Read MoreWasp Cove, part two
The second live episode of Wasp Cove, the soap opera musical set in the 1980s, debuts tonight at Comix (as they say) before a live studio audience. It’s the creation of Julie Klausner and Rachel Shukert, and if last...
Read MoreFat Guy Stuck In Internet debuts
Adult Swim debuts the oddest, yet most delightful new piece of television history tonight as Gemberling becomes Fat Guy Stuck In Internet. First impression? Like a 21st century multimedia version of the camp classic movie of...
Read MoreComing soon: “Wasp Cove” live at Comix
Soap opera comedies are all the rage in 2008, aren’t they? We saw the first season of "Horrible People" earlier this year online at My Damn Channel. But how about a live production? That’s where the cast of...
Read MoreECNY Awards voting deadlines!
Today is the final day for open voting for the ECNY Awards, which used to stand for Emerging Comics of New York, but now just is ECNY to honor other kinds of comedians, sort of how KFC decided it was much more than merely...
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