Approaching the precipice of ending his decade long run as a late night talk show host at The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson imparted some advice to late night newbie Seth Meyers while on Late Night with Seth Meyers.
For the most part, Craig stresses that there will be a point where you go crazy.
(via Cartoon Brew)
If you were looking for another reason to love the fantastic Rick & Morty on Adult Swim, we’ve got one. The animators behind Rick & Morty just recently unionized on their own through the Animation Guild. This is important considering many of Adult Swim’s cartoons surprisingly aren’t unionized.
The crew will now get a standard hourly wage, health coverage, pensions, etc. This undoubtedly will lead to a more productive team at Rick & Morty and one hell of a second season.
With Sept. 24th, the premiere date of the new season of Key & Peele, just around the corner, Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are making the rounds on talk shows.
CBS Sunday Morning News did a great segment on them that gets into their motivations behind what they do and how Key & Peele specifically handle race and touchy topics their own very progressive way. Watch it here.
HBO has set the return for The Comeback with Lisa Kudrow for November, which isn’t too far away, if you think about it.
Well, if there’s more teasers like this one, perhaps it will be less than hundreds of hours until the brand new season premiere of The Comeback.
ON THE HORIZON
The Noble Experiment @ Silverlake Lounge Sat. Sept. 20th 7PM FREE
The Walsh Brothers @ UCB Theatre Sat. Sept. 27th MIDNIGHT $5
COMEDY CRAWL
Comedy Central’s “@midnight w/Chris Hardwick” @ Hollywood Center Studios 3:15PM/7:15PM FREE w/RSVP
The Good Luck 4 Year Anniversary @ The Good Luck Bar 7:30PM FREE
Not Safe For Work @ Westside Comedy Theater 8PM FREE
Pints & Puns @ Angel City Brewery 8PM FREE
The Super Serious Show @ The Virgil 8PM $7 in adv., $10 at door
Nate Bargatze @ Comedy & Magic Club 8PM $15/2 item min.
Meltdown @ Nerdmelt Showroom 8:30PM $8 (stand by only)
Pete Holmes Living at Largo @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 8:30PM $30
Facebook @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
OPEN MIC RUN
THE COMEDY STORE PATIO 8433 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 4PM/Ends 6PM/Lottery/4 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Josh Martin
FLAPPERS BURBANK 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/3 min./No purchase necessary
ICE HOUSE STAGE 2 24 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena, CA/Sign-up 5:30PM/Starts 6PM/4 min./Lottery/No purchase necessary
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO. 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/Ends 8PM/First come, first served/One item min.
SAL COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
CORK’S LOUNGE 5043 Van Nuys Blvd., Sherman Oaks, CA/For spot 7PM-8:30PM must sign up in advance at jaketaveren@monkeyheadconcepts.biz/For spots 8:30PM-10PM sign-up at venue before pre-booked show/First come, first served/No purchase necessary/Hosted by Danielle Arce
PALADINO’S 6101 Reseda Blvd., Tarzana, CA/Starts 7PM/Ends 9PM/First come, first served/7 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Thomas Fraser
OPEN MICHELLE @ WILDE THISTLE 3456 Motor Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/Female performers only/5-7 min./One item min.
THE GRANDVIEW MARKET 12210 Venice Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 6:45PM/Mixed mic/4 min. for comics/1 song musicians/No purchase necessary/Hosted by Monika Scott and Morgan Jay
ZOEY’S CAFE 185 E. Santa Clara, Ventura, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/First come, first served/10 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Samantha Ross
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/mixed mic
LIQUID ZOO 7214 Sepulveda Blvd., Van Nuys, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM w/one drink min./Starts 9PM/first come, first served/7 min.
O’HARA’S BAR 1000 Gayley Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/Lottery/3-5 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Justin Williams
THE OYSTER HOUSE 12446 Moorpark St., Studio City, CA/Starts 10PM/Ends 1AM/First come, first served/5 min./Hosted by Gary Carver
ECHOES UNDER SUNSET 1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts 10:30PM/First come, first served/1 item min.
KARMA LOUNGE 3954 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 10:30PM/Mixed mic/5 min./Lottery/25 spots only/No purchase necessary/Hosted by Adam Feuerberg
THE LEXINGTON 129 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts 11PM/Lottery/5 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Geoffrey Feldman
HOUSE OF TACOS 5616 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 9PM/First come, first served/No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts 11:30PM/First come, first served
Jason Schwartzman gets to play a caustic, self-obsessed writer in Alex Ross Perry‘s Listen Up Philip with Elisabeth Moss putting up with him as his girlfriend and Jonathan Pryce as a witty, manipulative mentor.
Sound fun? It sure looks like it in this trailer. It’s due out for a limited release on Oct. 17th.
When she was on SNL, Nasim Pedrad was the go to player to impersonate Kim Kardashian, even though, often, she wanted to impersonate the likes of Aziz Ansari.
So, when chatting with Conan O’Brien last night, Nasim told the story of how her sketch where she impersonated Aziz got cut and her worries over discussing her Kim impression with Kim Kardashian herself.
Though you might have seen Rob Delaney on “@midnight” on TVs here in America, Delaney is overseas with a sitcom that he’s been working on with Sharon Horgan called Catastrophe.
Picked up for a season at Channel 4, it follows Delaney and Horgan as a couple that decides to give the family thing a go when Horgan becomes pregnant.
Here’s Rob Delaney himself giving more detail to the show. Hopefully, it’ll make it across the pond in one form or another so us Yanks can watch it.
This November, Chris Gethard is making it a “House Show November”.
If you live within 4 hours of NYC, then you have a chance to get Chris Gethard and some of his funniest compatriots do a stand up show at your very own home, no matter what the set up is or if you normally host parties there or not.
Don’t record anything, keep the show free, make sure at least ten people show up, and you might have one hell of a great night with Gethard and company.
Get all the details and contact info here.
Weeks ago, Jennifer Lawrence’s private pictures were wrongly hacked and stolen. As it was a crime and an horrid invasion of privacy, comedy group The Cotillion Girls have something to say where they want to correct this injustice, sort of.
Watch and listen to their message here.
IFC is giving a third season to Maron based on the life of Marc Maron and his podcast WTF with Marc Maron. The season premiere is set for sometime in spring next year, but WTF will be continuing on if you need that to fill in that gap of time.
Perhaps, they’ll have an episode that’s based on Marc interviewing director Kevin MacDonald when he was expecting Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald.
The second season of Broad City isn’t coming until Jan. 2015, so we’ve got a few months to kill before that comes around.
Luckily, there’s an accompanying web series “Hack Into Broad City” that should give you the Abbi and Ilana fix you’ve been craving.
(via Deadline)
Not only has Netflix set up the return of Judd Apatow at the head of his own TV show (remember Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared?) with a nice top billing of Gillian Jacobs and Paul Rust, but they’re not wasting any more time in development by ordering Love straight to series and doubling down with two seasons.
Currently, there are few details about Love other than it will explore the sort of fragile, counterintuitive relationships that Apatow loves delving into.
So, with that, Netflix must know something great that we all don’t know with two seasons ordered.
ON THE HORIZON
Part Two! The Sequel Show @ Nerdmelt Showroom Thurs. Sept. 18th 9PM $8 in adv., $10 at door
Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction @ The Virgil Sun. Sept. 21st 8PM FREE
COMEDY CRAWL
Comedy Central’s “@midnight w/Chris Hardwick” @ Hollywood Center Studios 3:15PM FREE w/RSVP
This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir @ Cheetah’s 6:30PM/9PM FREE w/RSVP
Doug Loves Movies @ UCB Theatre 7PM FREE
The Good Luck 4 Year Anniversary @ Good Luck Bar 8PM FREE
Comedy Night @ Best Fish Taco in Ensenada 8PM FREE
Rise Up! @ Three Clubs 8PM FREE
Marc Maron @ Steve Allen Theater 8PM $8 (stand by only)
Put Your Hands Together @ UCB Theatre 8PM $5
Sleepaway Camp @ Downtown Independent Theater 9PM FREE
Victory Lap @ The Virgil 9PM FREE
Judd Apatow & Friends @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 9PM $40-$100 (stand by only)
Babe Island @ Bigfoot Lodge 9PM FREE
What’s New @ Nerdmelt Showroom 9PM $5
We’re Having Fun Here @ The Palace Restaurant 9PM FREE
Roast Battle @ The Comedy Store Belly Room MIDNIGHT FREE
OPEN MIC RUN
FLAPPERS BURBANK 102 E. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/Stand-up, sketch, improv all welcome/5 min.
GRINDHOUSE CAFE 1051 N. Havenhurst Dr., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/First come, first served/5 min./Hosted by Steve Hernandez and Paul Laier
HOLLYWOOD IMPROV 8162 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5:30PM/Starts 5:45PM/Lottery/20 spots available
AMSTERDAM CAFE 10905 Magnolia Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM
THE OTHER DOOR 10437 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/To get a booked spot, email mouthypants@gmail.com by Monday at 5 PM/20 names will be chosen at random/Sign-up for 20 lottery spots starts at 7:30 at the show/Go to facebook.com/mouthypantscomedy for more details
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO. 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/Ends 8PM/First come, first served/One item min.
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
KIBITZ ROOM @ CANTER’S 419 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5:30PM/Starts 6PM/Ends 7:30PM/Lottery/6 min. w/$5 purchase, 3 min./without/Hosted by Burt Teplitzky and Danny McDermott
SOLO TAPAS 6250 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/Ends 9PM/7 spots/Lottery/3 min./Mixed in with booked spots/Hosted by Rasheed Stephens and Alex Duong
THE MOTH @ LOS GLOBOS 3040 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Doors at 7PM/Starts at 7:30PM/Stories only on theme of “taboos”/Lottery/5 min./10 spots only/$8 cover
CAFE UNURBAN 3301 W. Pico Blvd., Santa Monica, CA/Starts 9PM/Sign-up is lottery/No purchase necessary
COFFEE GALLERY 2029 Lake Ave., Altadena, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/lottery/5 min.
PEDONE’S PIZZA 1332 Hermosa Ave., Hermosa Beach, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 7:45PM/Ends 9:30PM/5-7min.
33 TAPS 6263 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:30PM/First come, first served/4-6 min./No purchase necessary/Hosted by Doug Dixon and April O’Connor
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Starts 8PM/mixed mic
THE LEXINGTON 129 E. 3rd St., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 9PM/Starts 10:30PM after booked show/Ends 12AM/No purchase necessary
PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 9:45PM after booked show/Lottery
ECHOES UNDER SUNSET 1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 10PM/First come, first served/4 min./1 item min.
VOILA ART GALLERY 518 N. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Starts MIDNIGHT/Follows booked show/No purchase necessary
THE COMEDY STORE BELLY ROOM 8433 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 11PM/Lottery/3 min./No purchase necessary/Roast battle between 2 comedians at end/Hosted by Brian Moses and Rell Battle
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts 11:30PM/First come, first served
HBO is setting to close out the year strong with their comedy specials. They just scored their highest rated comedy special with Bill Maher’s Live From D.C. in five years and they’re about to premiere Jerrod Carmichael’s first televised appearance in the form of an hour stand-up special next month.
Here’s a new trailer for Jerrod Carmichael’s Love at the Store directed by Spike Lee.
Please mark Sat. Oct. 4th 10PM on wherever you remind yourself to do/watch things so you won’t forget to watch.
Some of the best/worst times at karaoke are when overly excited people sign up for a song only knowing the chorus of the song. Inevitably, there’s a lot of mumbling, stumbling, and overall bewilderment between choruses.
That’s exactly what Kristen Wiig and Ellen DeGeneres did with Frozen’s hit song Let It Go (you might have seen Paul Scheer lipsync it on Mexican late night earlier) by butchering it beautifully on Ellen.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
The team behind all of those Greatest Events in Television History specials at Adult Swim are finally getting a first look deal.
Adam and Naomi Scott’s Gettin’ Rad Productions are locked in to a two year first look deal that will look to develop TV shows at Universal TV.
Also, this is probably the first time a TV deal was given to a production company whose founder describes the name as “both stupid and aspirational”.
Adam Devine’s House Party returned last week on Comedy Central for its second season as well as a big ol’ crazy house party down in New Orleans.
In the midst of all of that, the hilarious Ian Karmel told a great joke on exactly why he thinks if there really was a God, he’d be weird. Watch it here, but think twice before you try to tell a religion joke at a house party.
(via Deadline)
Following the announcement of the return of Michael Che, stand-up comedian Pete Davidson, who you probably saw do stand-up on Kimmel earlier this year, is set to be the only new cast member on the 40th season of Saturday Night Live, premiering later this month.
Additionally, Michael Patrick O’Brien who was featured in the cast last year is returning this season as a writer, leaving SNL with less three less players than last year.
However, as SNL casted Sasheer Zamata midseason, don’t think that all of this is written in stone.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
After leading their late night offerings for years, Jimmy Kimmel along with Carson Daly has just sold a comedy project to ABC. Kimmel will write the pilot himself that follows a VJ that loses it all, which loosely follows the life of former MTV VJ Daly.
Interestingly, though they’re on different networks, Daly and Kimmel have been longtime friends since their time together at the radio station KROQ here in LA.
This week on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver got to delve into something that hits a closer to home for him as it deals with the fate of Great Britain.
After hundreds of years, Scotland is now voting on its independence from Great Britain and Oliver expertly and hilariously presents both sides.
Watch, learn, laugh, and repeat right here.
(via Vulture)
In a recent chat with Vulture, Jemaine Clement, after the Internet (us included) thought it might be the return of Flight of the Conchords, finally lays out what exactly he’s working on for HBO.
He and Taika Waititi, who are having a nice run with their movie What We Do In The Shadows are writing an anthology series where each episode will be completely different from each other except for the players that will be cast.
The 4 episodes that were ordered only have a script commitment and have a chance that they won’t be made.
So, now that you know that, cross your fingers that all of this comes to fruition.
From 11:20-25:23 of this episode of Estrella TV’s Noches Con Platanito’s, which is, from what we can gather, a Mexican version of The Tonight Show with a host dressed up as a clown the entire time, Paul Scheer and Nadine Velazquez from The League were guests.
While Nadine speaks Spanish, Paul really doesn’t and they didn’t give him a translator. Also, apparently, they get away with a whole lot more bizarre, crazy stuff on Mexican late night than they do on American late night.
Also, you get to see Paul give an inspired lipsyncing performance of “Let It Go” from Frozen.
ON THE HORIZON
Stripped Stories @ UCB Theatre Thurs. Sept. 18th 8PM $10
W Kamau Bell “Oh, Everything!” @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre Tues. Sept. 23rd 8:30PM $25
COMEDY CRAWL
Comedy Central’s “@midnight w/Chris Hardwick” @ Hollywood Center Studios 3:15PM FREE w/RSVP
This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir @ Cheetah’s 6:30PM/9PM FREE w/RSVP
Greg Proops Film Club: Groundhog Day @ Cinefamily 7:30PM $12
The Good Luck 4 Year Anniversary Show @ Good Luck Bar 7:30PM FREE
The Goddamn Comedy Jam @ The Lyric Theatre 8PM $5
Cindy Crawford Comedy Show @ MiMoDa 8PM $10 suggested donation
Hot Tub with Kurt Braunohler & Kristen Schaal 8PM $5 in adv., $8 at door
This SHOW Will Require Dinosaurs @ Comedy Central Stages 8PM FREE w/RSVP
This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir @ Cheetah’s Club 9PM FREE w/RSVP
The Business LA @ Little Joy 9PM FREE
FRINGE with JC Coccoli @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
Round 2 @ El Cid 10:30PM $5
Crash Test @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5
OPEN MIC RUN
NERDMELT SHOWROOM 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/Lottery/No purchase necessary
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/5 min./First come, first served
SARDO’S 259 N. Pass Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/Ends 8:30PM/7 min./First come, first served/15 guaranteed spots/1 drink min.
ROCKPAPER COFFEE 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 6PM/End 8PM/First come, first served/One item min.
IO WEST 6366 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:15PM/Starts 6:30PM/Ends 8PM/Lottery/3-5 min.
ANCHOR BAR 2675 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa, CA/Starts 7PM/Sign-up at evan@dudelyjones.com/4-5 min.
THE WAREHOUSE LOUNGE 4499 Admiralty Way, Marina Del Rey, CA/Starts 7PM/Ends 7:45PM/First come, first served/5 min./8 spots only/No purchase necessary
THE GOOD NIGHT 10721 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 7:45PM/Ends 9:30PM/Lottery/3-5 min./1 item min./Hosted by Ever Mainaird, Lisa Laureta, Ryan Walker, and Caitlin Bergh
ECHOES UNDER SUNSET 1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:15PM/Lottery/One item min./Hosted by Jay Weingarten
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 7:30PM/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
BREWDOG PUB 8300 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 7:45PM/Starts 8PM/First come, first served/5-7 min./Hosted by Pamela/1 item min.
THE PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8:45PM/Starts 9PM/3 min./Lottery/1 item min./Hosted by Meg Swertlow, Wanjiko Eke, Chloe McGovern
JAKE’S 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA/Sign-up 9:30PM/Starts 10PM/Lottery/3 min./No purchase necessary
No longer will it just be Montreal and Toronto that get the upside of having a Just For Laughs Comedy Festival every year. From Nov. 5th-16th three separate comedy tours across Atlantic, Central, and Western Canada will be running all under JFL’s banner.
The Western Canada JFL tour will be particularly great with Demetri Martin, Jon Dore, Levi MacDougall, and Todd Glass.
Get your tickets here.