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What the world needs now is Joe Pera. Now more than ever. Thankfully, Adult Swim dedicated a quarter-hour early this morning to Pera and his musings for the latest episode in its Infomercials series (the same series that brought us Too Many Cooks). This is Joe Pera Talks You to …
Omar. Chalky. Rock. Michael Kenneth Williams will chalk up a new iconic TV character, starring as pianist Rock Banyon in the new IFC miniseries parody, The Spoils Before Dying. The cable network announced the casting today. The Spoils Before Dying comes from the same Funny or Die team that brought …
Last week, MTV debuted a silly little spoof of its own Girl Code and Guy Code comedy advice series, called “Squirrel Code.” They took footage of squirrels in the wild and dressed up puppets, gave them barely fake names (comedian Carly Aquilino or squirrel Barely Acornino! Damien Lemon becomes Dominic …
When Comedy Bang! Bang! returns to IFC tonight with its third-season premiere, we see not one, not two, but three different pairings of host Scott Aukerman and musical sidekick impresario Reggie Watts!!! “We decided to do a tribute to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, because we thought – that’s the …
Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns made a mini-movie about comedian Eugene Mirman, and what happened next will inspire you. No, wait. I’ve read so many of those danged UpworthyViralNovaBuzzFeedy clickbait-and-switch headlines that it’s seeping into my writing. No, wait. You should be inspired. That’s the whole point of those lovely …
No matter what happens on your Valentine’s Day, rest assured that it couldn’t go bad quite like it does here for NYC-based sketch group POYKPAC, as they present a couple breaking up over dinner — in a dialogue of movie titles and nothing but movie titles. 154 movie titles, in …
That “Dumb Starbucks” that opened last weekend in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles and offered free coffee drinks to customers? That was the latest bright idea of Nathan Fielder, host and brainchild of Comedy Central’s Nathan For You. Fielder revealed himself on Monday with a video and press …
Why go to Kickstarter when you can appeal directly to everyone? Comedian Jarret Berenstein takes it to the next level by making himself a full-fledged charity case, with Christina Gausas as his celebrity spokeswoman to make the pitch on his behalf. It’s really sad, the life of an aspiring stand-up …
There have been more than a few parodies of the great feature film, her, including a very special version that aired on Saturday Night Live featuring Jonah Hill, the voice of Jonah Hill and a “Superbad” cameo as the surrogate. Before that aired, though, this showed up on YouTube. It’s …
Before there was the viral video, before the Internet meme, before the Tweet and ReTweet, the Huffington Post and the Colbert Bump, there was The Onion headline. (You remember headlines, right? They’re like Tweets, only way fewer than 140 characters.) The Onion headline, now shorthand for the outrageous (and steeped …
