The Definitive Guide to Comedy
We’re less than a couple of weeks away from SXSW, when everybody in technology, film, music and comedy takes over downtown Austin, Texas. The comedy portion of South By Southwest takes place March 8-16, 2019. Here’s what they’ve got on tap this go around… 2019 SXSW Comedy Festival Participants Abbi …
Who’s joining Jimmy Pardo, Matt Belknap and Pat Francis for their eighth annual Pardcast-a-Thon, happening for 12 hours this Saturday live from Flappers Comedy Club in Burbank, Calif.? Among the known, announced guests:Â Jon Hamm, Sarah Silverman, Lauren Ash, Paul F. Tompkins, Scott Aukerman, Randall Park, Kumail Nanjiani, Rachel Bloom, and …
Paul F. Tompkins recently visited the Big Think, and shared his thoughts on how political correctness influences comedy. In short, tastes change, and comedians always need to adapt to changing times. “Otherwise you’re irrelevant,” Tompkins said. To wit, he also said, in part: “I would say in most cases, audiences …
What’s so special about 11 p.m. Thursdays? Thursdays are the new Fridays, or Must-See TV has shifted from primetime to late-night in 2016, because both the History channel and truTV are jumping into the comedy fray with weekly ventures in the 11 p.m. hour (Eastern/Pacific) that include throwing all sorts …
Bob Odenkirk and David Cross got the comedy band back together for four half-hour episodes of sketch comedy and an hourlong making-of special. It’s not Mr. Show. It’s not HBO. It’s W/ Bob & David on Netflix. Why isn’t Mr. Show on HBO Go or HBO NOW or anywhere officially …
Paul F. Tompkins is Crying and Driving in his latest one-hour comedy special, but those are happy tears. After all, Paul has several projects ongoing as we met up once more in 2015 — from reuniting with his Mr. Show cohorts on a new Netflix series, W/ Bob & David, …
Here’s your first look at W/ Bob & David, the new sketch comedy series reuniting Mr. Show‘s Bob Odenkirk and David Cross and their writers, co-stars and friends in this limited-edition lineup for Netflix! The four half-hour episodes and one-hour “making of” special hit Netflix on Nov. 13, 2015. On …
CollegeHumor and IFC created the hour TV special, CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of Fame, but after watching it twice over the weekend, I still cannot figure out why this exists. Both CollegeHumor and IFC enjoy reputations of existing on the fringes of mainstream comedy, but they’re not trying to make …
Your song of the summer now just got funnier. IFC and CollegeHumor are collaborating for an hour-long special on June 19 — CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of Fame, hosted by Paul F. Tompkins. Tompkins will guide us through the high and low notes of musical comedy, plus partake in interviews …
Have you been clamoring, wishing and hoping for an onscreen reunion of Mr. Show, the critical cult favorite sketch comedy series that ran on HBO from 1995-1998, starred David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, and catapulted the careers of several other heroes of your alt-comedy universe? Consider your wish already granted …
