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If Louis CK writes, directs, edits and stars in his FX comedy series, Louie, then what’s left for a co-producer to do? That’s Steven Wright’s role on the show, and Wright explained how he started working with CK and what that works entails, in this appearance on Wednesday night’s Late …
For all of the talk about Amy Schumer this year, it’s worth noting that Schumer joked throughout this summer’s Oddball Festival about how little money she made off of her own blockbuster hit movie, Trainwreck. And truth be told, Schumer — nor any woman — are to be found on …
Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc may not have won Emmy Awards last night in the category they were matched up in — Jeffrey Tambor won Lead Actor in a TV Comedy for his performance in Transparent — but CK and LeBlanc and all of us are winners for rediscovering their …
The Television Academy has so many categories and nominees to honor each year that it holds two separate ceremonies, naming winners this past weekend in the Creative Arts Emmy categories — which will air on FXX on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, the night before FOX televises the main 67th Primetime …
FX Networks is making its big splash today before the TV Critics Association by announcing two new series that expands FX and FXX’s relationships with the creators of long-running critical faves Louie and Archer. Better Things, starring Pamela Adlon, will receive 10 episodes on FX, while Cassius and Clay, an …
Jon Stewart welcomed Louis CK as his final official guest on The Daily Show for his penultimate episode on Comedy Central on Wednesday night, and the two comedians quickly began reminiscing about their younger days at the Comedy Cellar, and even just last Wednesday night at the Cellar. Here is …
As Comedy Central viewers watched Jon Stewart on The Daily Show concocting a fun story about why he’d ever have a secret meeting with President Barack Obama, patrons at The Comedy Cellar in New York City were privy to an even rarer treat Wednesday night — watching Stewart onstage doing …
With a profile this week in The New York Times, do you think Andy Kindler might mention it in today’s State of the Industry address at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival? Do you think? What do you think. You’re here reading this, so you know the answer. “I was …
The mild racism bit is going to resonate and go over well. The Israel and Palestine stuff will push a lot of buttons and get you some blowback but you know that already. And you’re really going to close with the child molester bit? Wow. That’s what I told Louis …
Just in time for this week’s fifth-season premiere of Louie on FX and the upcoming seventh Star Wars movie later in 2015, Nerdist Industries presents this simple, loving tribute to both with “Chewie.” Starring Chewbacca as a stand-up comedian going through the same motions as Louis C.K., right down to …
