Team Coco fan photobombs Jay Leno
When does this episode of Jaywalking air, again? A fan of Conan O'Brien meets Jay Leno, gets photo taken, has Coco FTW on his palm, posts to Facebook, gets picked up by TMZ. That pretty much sums it up.
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Stars align in Hollywood for “Night of 140 Tweets”
What happens when you get 140 performers — from the biggest names in comedy to the biggest up-and-coming funny people, mixed in with Hollywood stars and starlets, musicians, writers, children’s show makers, porn stars, and just plain clever people — put them in a 99-seat sold-out north Hollywood theater, and …
Win $10,000 for your short film: The Friars Club can make it happen for your sketch or improv team
The Friars Club has announced a contest that help take your sketch and improv teams to the next level of your careers, you know, the kind of level that could make you big enough in show business to be invited to become members of The Friars Club! To make it …
Shatner and Seth MacFarlane, animated together?!
Remember how Seth MacFarlane decided to extend his animated brand of comedy into YouTube shorts? Well, he's at it again, but this time he's in cahoots with the people from Priceline. Which means, William Shatner? Shatner has done animated comedy before. What do you mean you don't remember "The Gavones"?!? …
Jon Stewart, Louis CK doing their part for NYC public schools; something in it for you, too!
Famous funny people, they're just like us! When they have kids, they want to make sure they end up in nice schools, and if the public schools aren't cutting it, they send them to prep school! Or they try to make the public schools better. Witness Jon Stewart and Louis …
Conan O’Brien will emcee two nights at Bonnaroo! See which other comedians will be there in 2010
Conan O'Brien confirmed this morning that he and Team Coco will be touring North America this spring — more on that in a later post — but even more awesome is the news that the tour joins up with the annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Tennessee this June. Bonnaroo …
Do you have Dave? If so, watch Eugene Mirman and Phill Jupitus participate in a Comedy Exchange
Here in the States, we have Comedy Central. In Britain, they have Dave. See how we're the same and yet so different? Actually, they have a U.K. version of Comedy Central, too. So why don't we have our own Dave? Or do we, and he is in hiding. So many …
List of winners of the 6th Annual ECNY Awards
I was more than tempted to write something whiny and petulant about the ECNY Awards, but then I saw Marc Maron in a Twitter "fight" today with one of his followers about the principle of paying for art (you should definitely pay for art, whether it's a podcast, a creative …
Elephant Larry goes to the movies, via the Internet, with its own TV pilot: “The WOW”
You might remember NYC-based sketch group Elephant Larry from their original shorts such as the movie trailer for an adaptation of Minesweeper (which won an ECNY award two years ago; they're up again for best sketch group this year). With pilot season in full swing, the guys — Geoff Haggerty, …
Jerry Seinfeld just wants to be a stand-up comedian, except when he doesn’t (see: “The Marriage Ref”)
The New York Post quoted me yesterday for an article they wanted to write about how Jerry Seinfeld is also a victim of the so-called "Seinfeld curse," except my opinions didn't exactly jibe with their premise. You see, in my world-view, Jerry Seinfeld simply loves being a stand-up comedian — …