The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Scout Durwood grew up in the outskirts of Kansas City with dreams of becoming the next Julia Roberts. Instead, after first playing soccer and then becoming a cabaret singer, Scout’s first major screen credit came in the MTV reality dating stunt, A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. Durwood shook …
In 2015, the Oxygen network brought us Funny Girls, a look at six women in stand-up comedy climbing the show-business ladder in Hollywood. In 2016, Oxygen will bring us Living with Funny, examining six men in comedy in Hollywood — as well as the women in their lives — premiering Tuesday, …
SAG-AFTRA posted this notice over the weekend: Attention all members: SAG-AFTRA has rescinded its “no contract/no work” order regarding the series Comedians of LA and Living with Funny. SAG-AFTRA has signed a collective bargaining agreement with the production company Comedians of LA Productions to cover Comedians of LA and SAG-AFTRA is not asserting …
SAG-AFTRA has issued a “no-contract, no-work” order against L. Plummer Media, which is currently filming both Comedians of LA for Esquire and Living With Funny for the Oxygen Network simultaneously. The actors’ union notes that the production is for “a single series, produced by a single company — L. Plummer Media …
It’s OK to approach Oxygen’s Funny Girls with at least a bit of apprehension. Billed as a “docu-reality” series about six aspiring stand-up comedians too young to see the title as wordplay on the 1964 Broadway musical and 1968 movie that starred Barbra Streisand, but old enough to already know that …
At their Upfront presentations to advertisers today, the Esquire Network and Oxygen announced a first-ever joint project that will feature companion reality series shooting and airing at the same time on both cable channels — one showing the lives of stand-up comedians, the other showcasing the lives of the women …
Oxygen has been documenting the lives of six stand-up comedians in Los Angeles, living together and trying to make it in show business. But this isn’t The Real World. This is Funny Girls. And now it can be told that the stars of Funny Girls, premiering 9 p.m. Tuesday, April …
Oxygen announced a reality series on Tuesday for up-and-coming comedians that has been almost two years in the works. It still doesn’t have an official title — the working title is “Funny Girls” — nor does it have an official cast. But it’s a-coming. Funny Girls first showed up on …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Adult Swim announced a special one-off series finale on March 7 for Delocated, starring Jon Glaser. Sarah Silverman will kick off the second annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival when it returns to CineFamily in Los Angeles from Feb. 28 through March 2. Wayne Federman’s …
