Ever Mainard, a name of one those great Chicago comedy transplants that should be acquainted with if you’re not already, headlines the Nerdmelt Showroom for a night along with Matt McCarthy, Beth Stelling, and Lindsay Adams.
Get your tickets here.
Poster by Dave Kloc and Garrett Ross.
(via CNN)
A tunnel just North of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco has not only been renamed in honor of the beloved comedian Robin Williams, but has a delightful rainbow painted in the arch at the entrance of the tunnel.
This seems fitting for the joy and color that he brought into people’s lives as well as Robin being a way to places beyond rainbows.
Kicking off Fusion’s order of a Trump vs. Bernie special and digital series, they had Antony Atamanuik and James Adomian as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders cover the results of the primaries on Super Tuesday.
Of course, having lost Texas, Trump hated on the Lone Star state and Bernie continue to outline how many individual donations, no matter how slight, he has received.
Watch the entire livestream archived on Facebook here.
(via iDigitalTimes)
We’re guessing that will probably top a lot of what you’ll be getting as holiday gifts this year.
If everything goes as Rick and Morty co-creator Dan Harmon said at the Magic City Comic Con in Orlando, one of Adult Swim’s most fiercely beloved shows, Rick and Morty, from both Harmon and Justin Roiland, will have its third season sooner than expected.
Given everything else on Harmon’s plate of Great Minds at the History channel, Harmontown, having his hand at other things at Starburns Industries and mystery surrounding when the third season would actually return, many suspected we would all have to wait a couple of years.
Yet, an answer during a panel at this Magic City Comic Con lead to Dan revealing that season 3 will have 14 episodes and is targeted for the end of 2016.
So, with everything else going on this year, at least we’ll have that to look forward to.
Online network JASH is getting into the comedy festival game by throwing their own Jash Fesht on the weekend of Apr. 1st-3rd at Snapshot Studios in Palm Springs.
As you can see, the line-up is nicely stacked between comedy, music, and folks that blur the line of both disciplines.
Tickets are on sale now for $50-$100.
The latest episode of Great Minds with Dan Harmon, part of History channel’s Night Class, has Dan unprepared on so many levels to meet revered writer Ernest Hemingway as played by Scott Adsit.
In fact, Dan questions himself a lot next to Hemingway, making for another great episode of this show. Watch it here.
Samantha Bee is already off and running with Full Frontal and now her husband Jason Jones is getting ready to launch the TBS series that he’s starring in, The Detour. The show promises a family vacation that takes a dark turn, though under much suspicious circumstances than the National Lampoon Vacation movies, and lets chaos reign.
This promo probably just scratches the surface for how bad this family vacation. The Detour premieres on TBS on Mon. Apr. 11th.
Dave Attell is such a joke machine that catching him anywhere is kind of an imperative for comedy fans of any degree.
So, without further adieu, enjoy his latest barrage of jokes amidst his panel interview on last night’s Conan.
(via Variety/@teachersseries)
ABC seems pretty happy with their comedy slate.
Save for The Muppets, Dr. Ken, Galavant, and Last Man Standing, ABC has announced the renewal of the rest entire comedy line-up today. That includes Modern Family for its 8th season, The Middle, also for its 8th season, Fresh Off the Boat for its 3rd season, Black-ish, also for its 3rd season, and The Goldbergs for its 4th season.
Considering how quick the ax is brought down on series at other networks these days, this is a pretty big milestone for the broadcast network.
Also, TV Land’s freshman series Teachers will live to see a sophomore season.
Maybe this is a sign of the tides of cancelling new comedy series is changing? We certainly hope so.
Part earnest exploration into a potentially misunderstood subculture and part great taped segment, Nikki Glaser braves not only exposing her feet, a thing she’d rather avoid, and then going to a foot fetish party.
Salute Nikki and Not Safe for doing all the kinky work so many of us don’t have to (or, conversely, find out what we’re into) and watch what happened here.
(via Deadline)
Ready or not, Million Dollar Extreme is coming to stir up some really fun chaos.
Adult Swim continues to be the home for stuff that’s so far out there that it’s off-brand for anyone else other than Adult Swim. The latest series to come to their line-up, Million Dollar Extreme: World Peace, from Million Dollar Extreme (Sam Hyde, Nick Rochefort, and Charles Carroll) serves as a great example.
MDE are the folks responsible for one of our favorite prank TED Talks and we can only imagine what they’re going to try to pull when on cable television.
For some reason, upsetting a real porn director on a real porno shoot where you’re a porn star seems like a relatively normal day in the life of Sacha Baron Cohen.
Watch the full story told on Conan here.
Short.
Funny.
Both meanings. @TheRealDratch’s LATE NIGHT SNACK premieres Thursday at 11/10C.https://t.co/1PHTJoTXtf
The Internet is a vast place. Even when it comes to something as specific as short form comedy content, it’s an ocean full of stuff that’s hard to sort through.
So, Rachel Dratch has made it a little easer with Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack that compiles select short form comedy content including Lost Moon Radio, Austin Martinez, Cocktales with Little Esther, and more.
See what you might have missed or weren’t aware of at all when Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack premieres tonight at 11PM on TruTV.
(via Deadline)
The source material for Schitt’s Creek, The Kardashians, keep sticking around. Naturally, there’s more in the well to draw from.
Pop, the cable network that was revamped from the TV Guide Channel, is making their best bet by re-upping, for a 3rd season, the original comedy series that got Eugene Levy, Catherine O’Hara, and Chris Elliott on their programming line-up.
In case you’re not caught up, Schitt’s Creek which follows an formerly rich, obnoxious family having to live in a town they bought as a joke.
Season two is set to premiere later this month on Wed. Mar. 16th.
The UK’s renowned Jimmy Carr brings his latest hour to Largo at the Coronet Theatre on Wednesday Apr. 20th and Tuesday Apr. 26th.
Tickets are on sale for 20th and 26th now for $30.
For awhile now, we’ve been trying to imagine what the trailer for Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot with an all female set of Ghostbusters would be like, especially since it’s a pretty great team of McCarthy, McKinnon, Wiig, and Jones.
Finally, the first official trailer is here and we don’t have to imagine anymore. It should be pretty obvious, but Melissa, Kate, Kristen, and Leslie all look great together as Ghostbusters.
Not Safe with Nikki Glaser continues their run of great, kinky stunts by riffing on Jerry Seinfeld’s award winning Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but opting for sitting on vibrators instead of sitting in a car.
Nikki’s former Nikki and Sara Live and podcast You Had To Be There co-host Sara Schaefer joins in on the endeavor.
Watch what happens here.
Having short form in late night seems to be the order of the day for cable networks. Adult Swim has only grown bigger over the years, but the History channel has their Night Class and now, TruTV is showcasing short form content on Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack.
Get a taste, pun intended, of what Late Night Snack will have to offer, as picked by the one and only Rachel Dratch, with this prank Screen Test, a sketch from one of our longtime favorites, Lost Moon Radio, and a music video from NYC’s Austin Martinez dedicated to pretending to sleep.
If you’re more than intrigued like we are, watch the premiere of Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack this Thursday, Mar. 3rd at 11PM on TruTV.
From last night’s The Daily Show, here’s what is probably one of Neal Brennan’s most earnest interviews.
Though he is only mic’d with one mic, it’s a pretty good display of the range he has on his much talked about Three Mics show.
So far, Tracy Morgan, Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts, Jenny Slate, Michael Che, Jessica Williams, Chris Gethard, Gabe Liedman, Phoebe Robinson, Max Silvestri, Ian Abramson, and Jo Firestone will be present for The 3rd Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival taking place Jun. 1st-5th in Chicago.
That’s pretty swell if you ask us.
The Onion and A.V. Club have also joined forces with TruTV to present the festival this year, which seems pretty stacked.
Tickets go on sale Wed. Mar. 3rd at 8AM PST right here.
If it was never clear to you before how desperate a situation may be when sending out the very suggestive text message “You up?” to someone that you’re not seeing/dating, Man Seeking Woman hits the point home perfectly.
Even though Bob Odenkirk is now a well respected dramatic actor, It wouldn’t really be a full Bob Odenkirk late night appearance without a bizarre bit.
So, here’s what Bob and Conan came up with to make sure they checked the outside-the-box box.
Thursday, Mar. 19th at Fred Kavli Theatre at The Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Tickets are $304.00 (VIP Meet and Greet), $99.00, $79.00, $59.00.
Carmen Lynch is the latest stand-up to perform on Conan and not only does she garner applause breaks throughout, but shows that there is original way to talk about a topic that’s overly commonplace in stand-up, dating.
Coming from a personal place, Carmen along with Rust presents a unique comedic perspective on that awful thing comedians refer to as dating (amongst other manly topics), especially since her height in particular didn’t do her many favors in regard to any romantic chase.
