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⭐⭐⭐½ This is one of those 3½-star shows that’ll earn more stars as Torres gets deeper into Fringe. It’s not not a dead parents show. But Torres, a stand-up whose TV credits include performances on both Conan and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, does take us back to his …
There’s a new episode of “The Set Up” from Team Coco Originals, and it’s the 12th in an ongoing series, so a great time as any to check in with the webseries in which J.P. Buck, the longtime comedy booker and producer for CONAN, sits down with stand-up comedians to revisit their …
Shane Torres knows his name could have turned out a lot worse if his first name were Spanish and his last name Irish, and not the other way around. As Torres joked on The Late Show, he also finds himself making more odd noises as he gets older, and feels …
The Comedy Central Originals YouTube channel officially went live today. It’s where you can now find all of the network’s webseries and digital one-off content. Coinciding with this CC-change, the network also announced it’s premiering Emily Heller’s first one-hour special, Ice Thickeners, this Friday exclusively online via the recently launched …
Shane Torres returned to Conan on Monday night, and if you’ve heard this bit off of his new album, which already has gone viral, now you can watch it, too. Torres has a bone to pick with people who have a bone to pick with Guy Fieri. Roll the clip! …
Formerly known as Comedy Central Presents, and later The Half Hour, Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… will deliver 13 new half-hours of stand-up comedy from up-and-comers, coming at you in back-to-back episodes late Friday nights this fall starting Sept. 15, 2017. This season, filmed like last year in New Orleans, features Adam Cayton-Holland, Anthony …
This article was written by Jake Fromm (@jakefromm), a standup comedian and co-host of Green, a comedy podcast where green comedians ask better comedians how to get better. If you want to hear more in-depth advice from some of the comedians quoted below on topics like writing for TV and performing on …
Remember when seemingly every comedian who ever called him or herself a comedian taped half-hour submissions earlier over the winter? They started finding out from Comedy Central last week, and here’s the full list of stand-ups recording what’s now being called Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… These first 14 half-hours also …
Fuse is filming a new stand-up showcase series this weekend in Irvine fronted by YouTube star Jimmy Tatro. Uproarious features 30 up-and-coming comedians from both old-school stand-up and new-school social media with both elements included in the series, hosted by Tatro, who himself has attracted 2.5 million subscribers to his …
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “enjoying yourself?” Shane Torres has some thoughts on that, and they don’t typically revolve around a mall’s food court, but in this situation, they definitely did. Here’s more from Torres in his debut performance on Tuesday’s Conan. Roll the clip!
