New 23/6 investigation: “Exposed”
by The political parody site, 23/6, opens up an investigative reporting wing with this new series, Exposed. In the first episode, political "comedian" Barry Goldstein gets …
Tag: Mike Birbiglia
Comic Strip Marathon: The videos!
You didn’t think I sat through more than 50 hours of stand-up comedy last week and forgot to get some video of it, did you? …
Comic Strip Marathon: Post #28 Midnight mass exodus
Within the past 15 minutes, seemingly half of the capacity crowd has made their moves for the exits, following Jeffrey Ross toward the door at …
Comic Strip Marathon: Post #27 The highlight so far?
Mike Birbiglia goes onstage and immediately fills the audience in on my presence liveblogging the event. The lights go up. A couple of hundred heads …
Buzz positive for Mike Birbiglia’s CBS sitcom pilot
The early words are all good surrounding Mike Birbiglia’s sitcom for CBS. L.A. Weekly’s Nikki Finke reported last week that the network suits were "very …
Lucky Louie saved!? Louis CK inks CBS sitcom deal
Spent most of the day in a productive meeting (more on that later?) and happily returned back to my Internet to find that Louis CK …
DVD review: What I Should Have Said Was Nothing
Mike Birbiglia’s latest special, What I Should Have Said Was Nothing: Tales From My Secret Public Journal, released today. You’ve seen some of it already …
Mike Birbiglia’s TV family cast
Bob Odenkirk, Rachel Blanchard and Phil Hendrie will join the pilot for Mike Birbiglia’s potential CBS sitcom, Mike Birbiglia’s Secret Public Journal. (THR) Birbiglia stars …
CBS pilots Birbiglia’s “Secret Public Journal”
That’s the good news from the weekend. CBS ordered a scripted pilot of "Mike Birbiglia’s Secret Public Journal." I saw Birbiglia on Saturday night, when …
Behind the CCP: My First Time
Michael Showalter hosts tonight’s special Comedy Central Presents: My First Time, which explores the early jokey jokes and stand-up starts of Showalter, Michael Ian Black, …