Has the thrill of Fantasy Football or simple gambling on a football game gone?
Fret not as Katie Nolan and Garbage Time has got you covered with a NFL Bingo card that ditches normal in game statistics in the squares for eventualities that come with the NFL season (some amazing and some inconvenient truths).
It’s sure to get you back into pro football on a whole new level.
Katie explains further here.
“Heathers” TV Adaptation Gets Pilot Order at TV Land
In its dive into original programming, TV Land is definitely distancing themselves, in regards to tone, content, etc., from the old reruns more and more.
The latest development for original comedy over at TV Land is the upgrade of a TV adaptation of the 1988 dark comedy Heathers from a script order to a full pilot order. Interestingly, it’ll be an anthology series as opposed to following a single group of ‘heathers’ and be written by Jason Micallef, the writer of the dark comedy Butter.
Given Winona Ryder’s recent return to the limelight from Stranger Things, we also have to imagine that she’ll make some sort of cameo.
Issa Rae has already gotten a first look deal at HBO ahead of the series premiere of her show Insecure.
That puts more anticipation on the show, which will be the latest addition to HBO comedy. Luckily, you can see a little more of what’s to come in this second, full trailer.
Again, catch the premiere on Sunday, October 9th at 10:30PM on HBO.
We guess it was inevitable that all the channels that once played music videos most of the time were going to get into original comedy programming, right?
Fuse is getting into the comedy game with their brand new show Uproarious that will mix stand-up and sketch, probably a little differently than Adam DeVine’s House Party. One Jimmy Tatro will host the show that will feature the likes of such comedy stylings that we enjoy from Jesus Trejo, Emma Willmann, and Janelle James.
Look for the series premiere of Uproarious on Fuse starting Friday, October 7th at 11PM.
This weekend’s edition of The Half Hour on Comedy Central will feature Nate Fernald and his hijinks-laden comedy.
Get a taste of his mischief here before the premiere tomorrow night at 12:30AM right after Aparna Nancherla’s half hour.
The style of Apple announcements and ads are so well defined and have been around for so long, especially when it comes to the iPhone, that a plethora of parodies have been made over several years from virtually every facet imaginable.
That’s why Above Average decided on a new approach in parodying the announcement of the iPhone 7.
What approach is that, you ask? Well, making fun of the iPhone parody sketch itself.
Archer and @midnight with Chris Hardwick, Win Interactive Media Emmys
There are so many Emmy categories that some have to be announced on separate days in advance, especially when it comes to new categories like Multiplatform Storytelling or Social TV Experience.
These awards went to Archer and @midnight with Chris Hardwick respectively and are the signs of the Emmy Awards acknowledging the changing landscape of television.
It makes you wonder when, not if, will The Streamys and Primetime Emmys have a bunch of crossover.
Tonight at 10PM on FX, Better Things, co-created by and starring Pamela Adlon will have its series premiere.
If the early buzz surrounding it is true, FX is having a really great week with the premiere of both of this and Donald Glover’s Atlanta.
Get more details and RSVP for free here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Without a doubt, Taika Waititi’s Hunt for the Wilderpeople is one of the best comedies of 2016.
If you didn’t get a chance to see it in its limited theatrical run, fret not. It’ll be on iTunes next Tuesday, September 13th, then on other VOD platforms a week after that.
This is definitely that feel good comedy you want to watch over and over, so keep next Tuesday in mind.
A brand new web series at Refinery 29′s RIOT channel attempts to tackle the very pressing issue of getting a job in the real world (i.e. one where a lot of things just don’t work out the way you want them to).
Aptly called “how to get a job.”, Mitra Jouhari (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee and Three Busy Debras) hosts and shows what really happens when people are joining the work force.
Watch this episode that shows how ill-prepared so many college graduates are as soon as they leave school and how they manage coping with that.
One Mississippi, the dramedy series that fictionalizes Tig Notaro’s life, will start streaming on Amazon in two days.
According to Tig in this behind-the-scenes look, you think you might know what’s going to happen, but you really don’t.
Watch it here.
Donald Glover’s new series Atlanta continues to buzz in the morning after its premiere and to assure that keeps on going, FX has been kind enough to put the whole first episode on YouTube for your convenience.
Thanks to Fathom Events, this might be the most special one-night only screening of Young Frankenstein other than the premiere.
On Wednesday, October 5th, Mel Brooks and longtime friend and collaborator of Gene Wilder’s will introduce, live, one of their greatest works together, Young Frankenstein screening over half a thousand theater screens around the country.
If you didn’t get to catch Brooks at Radio City Music Hall recently, this might be the next best thing.
You might just want to skip making this a great gift for someone and get it for yourself.
“Mitch Hedberg: The Complete Vinyl Collection” is executive produced by Lynn Shawcroft and includes:
-12 inch vinyl editions of all three original Comedy Central Records albums (four LPs): “Strategic Grill Locations” (double LP with bonus audio, 1999), “Mitch All Together” (2003), and “Do You Believe in Gosh?” (2008)
-36 page book with rare photos, stories by Mitch’s wife Lynn Shawcroft, and original essays by Doug Stanhope, Mike Birbiglia and Margaret Cho
-Custom USB drive with MP3s of all three albums, never-before-heard recordings, an uncut presentation of Mitch’s 1999 “Comedy Central Presents” show, and more
This Mitch Hedberg collection comes out on November 4th, but you can pre-order it here.
The great Natalie Palamides is doing an entire one woman show this Thursday and you could be the first to embark on what we’re sure will be one hell of a journey through the fabric of comedy. Also, the show is free.
More details here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Simone Giertz made a robot dog modeled after Internet star Jenna Marbles in honor of a shout out that SImone got from Marbles.
Well, she tried to make a robot dog and this is what she came up with.
As you’re probably aware, Donald Trump has spoken well of Russian President Vladimir Putin much to the dismay of many Americans, especially at the time of this election.
So, AOK took it upon themselves to highlight how bad this mutual appreciation between these two loose cannons can really be with a very mutated version of the classic song Ebony & Ivory and an accompanying animated music video that’s almost as weird as that Japanese Trump ad.
Matt Kazman is a great writer/director that you should definitely have on your radar if you don’t already.
His latest short film, Killer, is fantastic and has been very deservingly getting praise across the country in several film festivals.
You can now (and really should ASAP) watch it on Vimeo here.
10 on FX.
The rap dramedy set in Atlanta that Donald Glover has described as a “Twin Peaks with rappers” called Atlanta finally premieres tonight.
To get you in the mood, here’s a really pretty montage from the show that really shows what “Twin Peaks with rappers” might look like.
Chris Gethard’s Solo Show “Career Suicide”, Now Presented by Judd Apatow, Is Going Off-Broadway
From UCB in NYC to Edinburgh to Off-Broadway, Chris Gethard’s Career Suicide, is the latest comedian solo show to climb its way up the ladder to Off-Broadway. Apatow’s name being attached here is another sign of the growing trend of comedians hitting Off Broadway (and even actual Broadway in the case of Oh, Hello).
Look for shows to start on October 5th at The Lynn Redgrave Theater.
Bruce McCulloch: Tales of Bravery and Stupidity is on Thursday, September 15th at 7PM and tickets are $5.
You can (and should) get them here.
Amazon Studios will be footing the bill here and, in doing so, is continuing their push to be a prestige studio.
The Last Detail was a dramedic adaptation of Daryl Ponicsan’s novel of the same name by Hal Ashby back in 1973. Ponicsan wrote a follow-up in 2005 called The Last Flag, which is being adapted now by the very capable hands of Richard Linklater with Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, and Steve Carell in talks to play the roles originally played by Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, and Randy Quaid.
Those sequel fatigue might be more and more palpable for the big screen, Last Flag Flying might be one sequel worth getting on board for.
Fox Developing an X-Files Parody of Sorts ‘Ghosted’ Starring Adam Scott and Craig Robinson
A pairing of Adam Scott and Craig Robinson could be a hit in a multitude of scenarios, but this parody of Fox’s classic series X-Files from Tom Gormican is definitely intriguing.
Also, since this could potentially be on the same network as the X-Files (as well as Fringe), there can be plenty of fun pot shots at both shows as well as Fox itself.
There’s Now a $100,000 “Hey John Oliver! Back Off My Charter School!” Contest
This has to be one of the more intriguing reactions to a Last Week Tonight with John Oliver piece including that time Oliver had to shut down his church over what was being sent to him in the mail.
While people will probably never stop debating whether Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is more a civics class parading as satirical comedy show or vice versa, the issues that he deep dives into really do get some people heated.
The recent piece on how some charter schools (and Oliver is clear about ‘some’ and ‘not all’ and that he is not against charter schools as a whole) are poorly run has inevitably upset some of those on the side of charter schools. Their anger has been the fuel for this video contest that calls for a response from charter schools to respond to Oliver’s segment and will award $100,000 to the best one.
Such actions make you wonder how the public has blurred the line between of Oliver being a comedian and a journalist even though Oliver, time and time again, denies there being a “John Oliver effect”.