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Nick Swardson announced the end of his Comedy Central sketch comedy show, Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time, after its second season. Swardson told his Facebook friends on Tuesday night: “I regret to inform everyone Pretend Time is over. The ratings were solid but it was too expensive for the network and …
Nick Swardson’s Pretend Time begins its second season later this week on Comedy Central, and to celebrate, the network is sharing three DVDs of Nick Swardson’s stand-up special, “Seriously, Who Farted?” for The Comic’s Comic to give away to three lucky fans. Here’s how we’re going to do it. I’m …
Kevin Hart’s fans turned out for him in the opening weekend of his new stand-up concert film and documentary, Laugh at My Pain, scoring $1.91 million at the box-office. It’s the best opening-weekend performance for a stand-up comedy movie since Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat pulled in $7.37 million in August 2002. …
This week, filmmaker Cameron Crowe visited Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and reminisced with Fallon about Crowe’s semi-autobiographical 2000 film, Almost Famous. Here’s a special cut of Fallon’s audition that segues from the screen test to the actual scene of him in action with the band. Roll the clip! https://www.hulu.com/watch/276280/late-night-with-jimmy-fallon-jimmys-almost-famous-audition Fallon …
Nick Swardson is recording his performance tonight in Austin at the Paramount, and Comedy Central has agreed to air the hour special in the fall and also release it as a DVD. Congrats, Nick!
A MySpace interview that not only promotes Adam Sandler’s new film, You Don’t Mess With The Zohan, but also allows Sandler and Nick Swardson to chat about whatevers. Enjoy. Artist on Artist Adam Sandler – Nick Swardson
I spy Nick Swardson through one of the windows that peers backstage. He best start messing with some Zohan. If you know what I mean.
Comedy Central released this image today of Gay Robot, the star of Nick Swardson’s new animated series. From my interview with Swardson last May…Most reports say Gay Robot is going to get a second chance as a cartoon. True?“Yeah, Gay Robot is still alive. Comedy Central had always wanted it …
Comedy Central has revealed its list of upcoming works and pilots under the modest heading: "The Future of Comedy." Next year, prepare for a fantasy-comedy set in medieval times, "Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire," written by Peter Knight. The pilots include projects by or featuring Snoop Dogg, …
Just checking my feeds from some of my other favorite comedy sites (look on the left column here, and you’ll see the most recent postings from Comedy Central Insider, Dead-Frog, The Apiary, The Baston and Shecky Magazine, as they’re updated) and saw a couple of new and funny videos posted …
