Original surviving cast of Good Times looks to Kickstarter for a reunion movie
by Does a Good Times reunion sound DYN-O-MITE to you? The surviving original cast members — John Amos (father James Evans, Sr.), Jimmie Walker (J.J.), Bern …
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Jonah Ray to host new reboot of MST3K, joined by Patton Oswalt, Felicia Day, Baron Vaughn, Hampton Yount
MST3K will come back with a brand-new cast, Kickstarted by 30,000 fans already to the tune of $3.5 million and counting. Original creator and star …
Kevin Pollak’s Misery Loves Comedy documentary: From Kickstarter to Sundance to distribution deal!
Even before its world premiere this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, Kevin Pollak’s TV misery (spoiler alert!) can be pushed aside for joy and …
Sponsor A Comedian
Why go to Kickstarter when you can appeal directly to everyone? Comedian Jarret Berenstein takes it to the next level by making himself a full-fledged …
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Kickstarting generations, genders of stand-up comedy: Moms Mabley, in a new HBO documentary by Whoopi Goldberg
She had played Carnegie Hall, headlined the Apollo with Cab Calloway for decades, but in 1967, Dick Smothers introduced her to a whole new audience, …
“On The Cusp, Off The Cuff,” a documentary film about improv comedians in NYC and the UCB
Improv. Say that one word in comedy circles and you’ll see a multitude of reactions. OK. Mostly likely one of three: Love. Hate. Indifference. Or …
“How Do I Land?” Kurt Brauohler’s Cloud Project is a humor lesson in skywriting, gift of absurdity
On March 23, 2013, a funny thing happened in the sky above Los Angeles. A skywriting plane wrote letters in cloud form amid the blue …
Jeff Schimmel relaunches Kickstarter tribute to Robert Schimmel, this time as an eBook
Not all Kickstarters are created equal. While “The Veronica Mars Movie Project” by the TV show’s creator, Rob Thomas, and Hollywood studio Warner Bros. roped …
Jeff Schimmel launches Kickstarter to produce documentary on his brother, the late Robert Schimmel
Robert Schimmel “wanted to be the next Barry Manilow, for some unknown reason,” according to his younger brother, Jeff. Instead, Robert wrote the jokes that …
Skinja: The movie that started out as a joke. Literally.
“Meet Skinja. She’s a stripper by night, ninja by later that night.” That’s a joke. Well, it started out as a joke in a longer …