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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 …
Kurt Braunohler released a “Perfectly Stupid” new stand-up comedy special last month via Moment, where it’ll be available on demand exclusively until next week, when you can start watching it on demand elsewhere and purchase/stream the album. So what better time to promote it than now, presenting a small set-piece …
Not everything needs to be a period piece. On the small screen, both Marc Maron and Pete Holmes brought their recent pasts into present-day so they could have the best of both worlds for their comedic purposes in IFC’s Maron and HBO’s Crashing. Similarly, when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. …
Kurt Braunohler has a new one-hour special (and comedy album) out now thanks to Comedy Central, and he’s about to become a brand-new dad, too. Which had Braunohler thinking dad jokes on Conan, as well as about the problems with dads in America. Roll the clip. You can check out …
Wondering what to look forward to in the first three months of 2017 from Comedy Central? Wonder no more, as the network just announced its scheduling plans. Of course, the stand-up specials in the can or coming soon don’t have release dates just yet, but most everything else does. The …
Kurt Braunohler has waited tables before, because most comedians usually have worked other jobs before making a living full-time in show business, but as Braunohler joked on Monday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, he recently encountered a waitress so bad at her job, she may just …
Kurt Braunohler returned Wednesday night for another performance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and this time, the comedian shared a warning for anyone thinking of proposing marriage on a hot-air balloon ride. He has been there, and done that. Perhaps he should have tried proposing two drinks earlier. …
Last summer, comedian Kurt Braunohler jet-skiied the Mississippi River to raise money for charity and filmed it all for a Comedy Central webseries. For his latest tricked-out summer tour for Comedy Central, Braunohler is driving what appears to be a giant butt across the country. As he explained this morning: …
Kurt Braunohler began his stand-up performance on Wednesday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers by revealing a facet of his sexual behavior, which might scare off potential girlfriends and wives except for the fact that he just scored himself a new wife. So never you mind about that. On the other …
Comedy Central announced its latest development slate for webseries via CC:Studios, which has become more vital as a pipeline to TV this year as two previous CC:Studios projects — This Is Not Happening and Idiotsitter — have made or are making the leap from YouTube to boob tube. “I am …
