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What’s happening in the comedy world now… USA is developing a potential late-night talk show with Gary Sanchez Productions that would air in the midnight hour as technically the earliest of early-morning shows. It’s from creators and executive producers Owen Burke and Rob Cohen. MTV is working with Dana Min …
Scott Moran’s documentary series about the lives and work of stand-up comedians, “Modern Comedian,” will live on with a new distribution deal with PBS Digital Studios. Moran told The Comic’s Comic: “Yeah! It’s true. They approached me and made a great offer that works well for both of us so …
Comedian Scott Moran launched a new “weekly documentary Web series” on Monday called “Modern Comedian,” looking into the on- and offstage lives of stand-up comedians. Moran, from Washington State and now based in New York City, posed his first examination this week at Kurt Braunohler (above), the host of IFC’s …
It’s one thing to talk about a TV show on Twitter while it’s on. It’s another thing — or about $300 in other things — to win money to take improv comedy classes because you said something meaningful on Twitter about that TV show. That’s what IFC’s Bunk is doing …
IFC’s latest greatest comedy series do not debut until June, but don’t tell that to the Internet! Because IFC.com has unleashed two sample episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang! and Bunk to whet your appetites over the holiday weekend and up until June 8, 2012. In the second episode of CBB, …
Did you watch the debut of Money From Strangers on MTV last week? Did you miss it? Either way, you can catch up with the latest, greatest, hidden-camera comedy show as host Jeff Dye takes us behind the scenes of the premiere and gives you insight before the next episodes …
IFC made its first-ever Upfronts presentation to TV advertisers last night in New York City, and confirmed that it had ordered a 10-episode season for comedian Marc Maron based on the independent pilot he had debuted at the 2011 New York Television Festival. This marks the second new series IFC …
Not only is John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show returning to Comedy Central this year for a third season, but he and the network are taping the showcases this weekend in NYC. So if you’re in or near the city from March 10-12, 2012, you can ask for tickets to …
Making news at last week’s TV Critics Association winter tour, IFC announced it had ordered two new series for the summer. The first is actually a promotion for Scott Aukerman — Aukerman already has been appearing for the past year in interstitial interview segments on the cable channel under his …
In case you missed it last week, Comedy Central’s 2011 “Comics to Watch” showcase is online as a full, uncensored episode. Jeffrey Ross hosted from Carolines on Broadway as part of the New York Comedy Festival. Your performers, in alphabetical order, were Kevin Biggins, Kurt Braunohler, Michael Che, Emily Heller, Sam Morril, Mark Normand, Josh Rabinowitz and Daryl …
