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Jo Firestone can be seen on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and The Chris Gethard Show, and heard on WFMU. Jo was recently named a New Face at the 2016 Just For Laughs Festival. And if you like puns, check out Punderdome: A Card Game for Pun Lovers, based …
Of all of the characters in Mike Birbiglia’s wonderfully true and funny film, Don’t Think Twice, Chris Gethard’s runs closest to his own. Gethard began taking improv classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade when he was only 20, and quickly became a darling of the UCB community, eventually starting a …
The second season of the Fusion edition of The Chris Gethard Show comes to a close tonight with an epic wrestling match pitting Gethard against his nemesis Vacation Jason. Plus an appearance from Jon Hamm! And the extremely expensive visions of Julio Torres? Yes, TCGS was never an ordinary call-in …
DiddyGetHard, the sequel is here! Sean Combs triumphantly walked through the “Diddy” Door to save episode two of season two of The Chris Gethard Show on Fusion, which airs tonight. Gethard famously spent a year in 2010 lobbying for the music mega-producer to appear on his underground talk show at …
We’re still five weeks away from seeing what the Fusion half-hour edition of The Chris Gethard Show will look like, but you can start getting a feel for it by reliving old episodes of TCGS tonight. Three of them, in fact! Fusion will rebroadcast half-hour highlights of the following episodes …
“We love what you do and we’re proud to be a part of it.” — That was Will Ferrell, calling in to the final live episode of The Chris Gethard Show on public-access Manhattan Neighborhood Network last week. So Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis will join Gethard as executive producers of …
The final episode of The Chris Gethard Show on MNN — Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s municipal access channel — opened tonight with the big announcement: When TCGS returns from its next hiatus in April, it’ll do so as a weekly series on Fusion. “Yes, we’re still going to book cool musical …
A full 117 episodes into their weekly run on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network — beamed from New York City’s public-access cable TV to viewers everywhere online — The Chris Gethard Show jokingly allowed all of its regular panelists and irregular guest characters and audience members to make big announcements on …
How committed is IFC to expanding its comedy brand of “Slightly Off, Always On?” The cable channel now has an Adopt-A-Comic program! First new member of the IFC family for 2012? Chris Gethard, one of the stalwart improv comedians and stand-ups from New York City’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. “This …
