The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world… Lewis Black’s limited run on Broadway, Running on Empty, opened last night. The eight performances go through Oct. 20, 2012, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. FX announced it will postpone the broadcast of season four of Louie to spring 2014. It had been planned …
Do you need a little more Tenacious D in your life today? Have no fear. Jack Black and Kyle Gass are here. On your TVs, and now on your online videos, captured in separate performances on TBS for Conan (where they performed “Senorita”), and on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! for …
IFC’s latest greatest comedy series do not debut until June, but don’t tell that to the Internet! Because IFC.com has unleashed two sample episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang! and Bunk to whet your appetites over the holiday weekend and up until June 8, 2012. In the second episode of CBB, …
In case you missed it, IFC aired a special 10-minute sneak peek at its upcoming Comedy Bang! Bang! “talk show” last night following the second-season finale of Portlandia. But since the Internet is all-knowing and all-giving, you didn’t miss it. It’s right here. Online. Waiting for you. Fans of the …
Making news at last week’s TV Critics Association winter tour, IFC announced it had ordered two new series for the summer. The first is actually a promotion for Scott Aukerman — Aukerman already has been appearing for the past year in interstitial interview segments on the cable channel under his …
It’s never too late for a bonus Christmas present, and what’s tastier than peaches and cobbler? Especially when it comes to you straight from the mouth of Reggie Watts! The Comic’s Comic exclusively presents “Peaches & Cobbler,” a track from “On Life and Quantum Entanglement,” the new live performance from …
Conan O’Brien and his late-night crew triumphantly returned to New York City this week, and Reggie Watts — who toured with Conan during his TV break way back when it wasn’t so long ago — welcomed him back to the city by performing that by-gone ditty, “The Boys are Back …
At New York Comic-Con today, Fred Armisen, Carrie Brownstein and Jonathan Krisel introduced a fresh, new clip from season two of their IFC sketch comedy show, Portlandia. The “Sanitation Twins,” Marcus and Madeline Harris, bring an expanded recycling system to Portland. Which bin should you put your fingernail clippings in? The …
Chicken restaurant chain Nando’s — known in the States as Nando’s Peri Peri — hired Reggie Watts to explore, and to let you explore, the sounds you might make just thinking about Nando’s. What’s more, they’ve created a beatbox factory called Nando’s Noise where you can mix several beats laid …
For those of you looking for a longer set from Reggie Watts to find out what everyone is talking about, then behold this session as Watts performed for Jesse Thorn's The Sound of Young America live broadcast a few weeks ago at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, Ore. Enjoy: …
