FeralAudio.com, an “artist friendly podcast collective” created by DustinMartian that has worked extensively with the famed comedy podcasts of Earwolf, is going to officially launch Mon. May 14th.
Futurama has a podcast to bide the time between now and its return on Comedy Central.
Listen to all the hijinks that was had by improv4humans at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival
Last night on late night:
Reggie Watts showed what he would do with a full band on Conan, which is, by the way, continue to be awesome…
Garry Shandling still has it on Leno
Howard Stern claimed that he was going to ruin America’s Got Talent on Fallon
Tonight on late night:
Will Ferrell and Ellie Kemper on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC 12:35AM)
W. Kamau Bell @ The Stress Factory (New Jersey) This Weekend
The Beards of Comedy throughout the Midwest in May
Kyle Kinane @ The Jukebox (Peoria, Il) Thurs. May 19th $12
Hari Kondabolu @ The Hollywood Theatre Sat. May 21st 9PM $10
Sean Patton @ The New Parish (Oakland, CA) June 6th 8PM $15 in adv., $20 at door
Patton Oswalt @ Spreckels Theatre (San Diego, CA) July 12th 8PM
Check out our interview/hang out for HAHAJK.com with the hilarious Eric Andre (Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23, The Eric Andre Show) outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland, OR during Bridgetown after his hysterical story about getting turned down by a prostitute. There’s a part two as well.
The great folks over at Gallery 1988 Melrose have curated an entire exhibition of art in real life dedicated to Internet memes. Let the .gifs begin.
(via jakefogelnest)
If we had water cooler’s in comedy, this is what we’d be talking about (hopefully).
–Mindy Kaling’s comedy got the greenlight from Fox. Considering Steve Carell has left, how worried exactly are fans of The Office now?
–Jimmy Fallon’s Guys with Kids got picked up by NBC. Still can’t outdo slow-jamming the news with Obama though.
–Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, and Nick Frost together again (on movie The World’s End). They have apocalyptic comedy on lock, wouldn’t you say?
–Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, and David Wain to team up for They Came Together. It should be a welcome parody of a genre (romantic comedy) unlike announced Scary Movie 5.
–Conan O’Brien will be on The Late Show with David Letterman. Odds are that this won’t be the historic moment in late night history that many blogs would hope it would be.
–Cougar Town to move to TBS. Not quite sure if that means the gap between cable and network comedy is coming closer or farther.
–Sundance favorite comedy Liberal Arts with Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, Richard Jenkins, and Allison Janney to be released by IFC Sept. 14th. Given the rise of Portlandia and the coming of Comedy Bang Bang and Bunk, IFC still can do movies even though no one thinks of them as the Independent Film Channel much any more.
Both Montreal and Chicago are set to be overtaken by live comedy by The Just For Laughs Comedy Arts Festival this summer before the world is let down when absolutely nothing happens in regards to it ending. From a Paul F. Tompkins fresh off his amazing 1-hr storytelling special Laboring Under Delusions to Epic Meal Time to the Muppets to Wendy Liebman to names people should know more like James Adomian, Sean Patton, and Jerrod Carmichael, JFL 2012 is shaping up to be epic (even beyond Epic Meal Time standards).
Scheduled to perform/appear in JFL Montreal:
The Muppets
Jim Gaffigan
Paul F. Tompkins
Lewis Black
Aziz Ansari
Jim Jefferies
Key & Peele
Marc Maron
Todd Barry
Hannibal Buress
Jimmy Carr
Anthony Jeselnik
Andy Kindler
Paul Provenza
Pete Holmes
Wendy Liebman
Epic Meal Time
Kristen Schaal
Eric Andre
James Adomian
Rob Delaney
Rory Scovel
Moshe Kasher
Tommy Johnagin
Sean Patton
Hari Kondabolu
Mo Mandel
Greg Behrendt
Joe Mande
Mike Lawrence
Myq Kaplan
Nick Vatterott
Jerrod Carmichael
Brian Keith Etheridge
Nikki Glaser
and more!
Scheduled to perform/appear in JFL Chicago:
Patton Oswalt
Mike Birbiglia’s My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
Stephen Merchant
John Oliver
Hannibal Buress
Kyle Kinane
Nick Offerman’s American Ham
Henson Alternative
Jeff Ross
TJ Miller’s Performance Anxiety
Kelly Carlin’s A Carlin Home Companion
and more!
If you were wondering, the 2012 New Faces are still unannounced.
Guess by “Mid May” Louis CK Means May 12th
Louis CK is going to release WORD: Live at Carnegie Hall tomorrow on Louis CK.com. Feel free to correct us if we’re wrong, but CK was going to release a special called WORD before Live at the Beacon Theater, just in case you wanted to be more stunned by his comedy special a year pace.
ON THE HORIZON
The Small Lynch Hour @ Steve Allen Theater Sat. May 12th MIDNIGHT $8
JFL Montreal Showcase @ Nerdist Theater Mon. May 14th 7PM $5
Floodlamp Open Meg[aphone] @ Verdugo Park Sat. May 19th Starts 7PM/Ends 10PM/First come, first served/No purchase necessary
COMEDY CRAWL
Drew Carey Presents The Best of the Midnight Show @ Irvine Improv 8PM/10PM $30/2 item min.
Dwayne Perkins @ Flappers Burbank 8PM/10PM $17/2 item min.
Mame That Chune @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10
Set List @ Nerdist Theater 8PM $10
Frankenmatt @ Second City Hollywood 8PM $10
Surprise with Rob and Sofiya! @ Polish Plantation 8:30PM FREE
The 12 Shiny Nickels Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $10
The Jesse Miller Talk Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10PM $5
Up Late with Adam Fisher @ Comedy Sportz LA 10:30PM $12
OPEN MIC RUN
SET LIST @ FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia, Burbank, CA/Sign-up 5PM/Starts 5:30PM/given “set list” of topics to do jokes off of/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
BROADWAY ALE HOUSE 129 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA/Starts 6PM/First come, first served/No purchase necessary
ROCKPAPER COFFEE CO 7509 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/Ends 8PM/First come, first served/5 min./one item min.
LITTLE MODERN 6476 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 6:15PM/Starts 6:30PM/lottery/10 spots only/5 min./No purchase necessary
SILVERLAKE LOUNGE 2906 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA (Silverlake)/Sign-up (lottery) 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/4 min./no purchase necessary
SUNSET GRILL 7439 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/one item min.
MAX BLOOM’S 200 N. Malden Ave., Fullerton, CA/Starts 7PM/booked show after/no purchase necessary
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/5 min./first come, first served/one drink min.
SABOR Y CULTURA 5625 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 8PM/Sign-up is a lottery/5 min. with 3 min. work-in’s/No purchase necessary
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel, past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served/coffee and bottled water available
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up 11PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/5 min./first come, first served/one drink min.
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/lottery
Will Ferrell was the lord of the tight pants on Fallon last night.
Tonight on late night:
Tommy Johnagin on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS 11:35PM)
Jenna Fischer on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (NBC 11:35PM)
Stephen Colbert on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC 12:35AM)
Anna Chlumsky and Larry King on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS 12:35AM)
The Campaign has Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis in a heated smear campaign for Congress and baby punching has never so right on.
From the directors of Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks has Paul Dano write has dream girl into reality…
The question is what multiplex tentpole will these go up against?
If you have love to read interviews, essays, articles, reviews etc. on the art form of comedy, then check out the following to nerd out/learn something/feel more comedy savvy than anyone else at the hipster party you’ll be going to tonight.
Stand Up Comedy and Mental Illness: A Conversation with Maria Bamford on Slate by David Haglund
Bobcat Goldthwait: Why Internet Commenters Hate My Movie on Huffington Post Comedy
Review of Reggie Watts “A Live in Central Park” on The Spit Take by Austin L. Ray
Parks and Recreation co-creator Mike Schur post-mortems Season 4 on HitFix by Alan Sepinwall
Eric Andre Talks His New Adult Swim Show That ABC Isn’t ‘Thrilled’ About on Huffington Post Comedy by Ross Luippold
Stereotypes and Comedy: Finding Where the Line Is on The Nerdist by Jake Kroeger
Written and created by Dan St. Germain, directed by Adam Wirtz, also featuring Christian Finnegan, Natalie Hegg, and Jordan Carlos.
Eat your heart out OLN, that is, if you don’t do that already for some late night survival show.
It’s exactly what you would want out of said sequel (right?)
This was part of the live screening of This American Life yesterday.
It’s true. Community is getting 13 more episodes for next season. So, don’t freak out when you just read someone hunting for web traffic by just making stuff up.
In other “trade” news:
–HBO & Vice Magazine developing show with help from Bill Maher and Fareed Zakaria. We can’t help but think that Bill Maher would just laugh non-stop while reading an issue of Vice.
–Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell produced by Chris Rock will premiere in August. Good move to avoid premiering against IFC’s comedy series premiere line-up in June.
–NBC also renewed 30 Rock. That won’t save them from the wrath of comedy nerds online if they ever do get rid of their Thursday line-up.
–Conan writer Deon Cole gets comedy series greenlight from TBS. TBS might be starting to become a legitimate player in the cable comedy game.
–ABC renewed Modern Family and expected to do the same with Happy Endings and Don’t Trust the B**** in Apt. 23. Modern Family might be this generation’s Married with Children whenever 90’s nostalgia gets around to Married with Children.
–Fox renewed Family Guy and American Dad. How long before South Park makes another Family Guy parody episode? Any takers?
–Ed Helms, John Krasinski, and Jenna Fischer are returning to The Office. Just make a movie already.
Don’t miss the inaugural pairing of episodes TONIGHT at 11PM for Comedy Central’s The Half Hour with the diametrically opposed, comedically, though still both very funny, Rory Scovel and Michal Palascak.
The above picture will probably the most serious Rory will be during his entire special.
It’s really hard to explain the awesomeness of Reggie Watts to people or animals or anything for that matter. If you’re alive yourself, you should stay up at 1AM tonight and watch A Live at Central Park and feel the pure goodness that reverberates from where ever Reggie is performing (we’ve watched the special and feel confident in this assessment)
ON THE HORIZON
The Eric Andre Show Season 1 Preview @ Cinefamily Mon. May 14th 7:30PM $12
Hamprom! @ Little Modern Wed. May 16th 9:30PM FREE
Dana Gould Starts a RIOT @ Fake Gallery Wed. May 30th 8PM $5
COMEDY CRAWL
Space Boners @ Silverlake Lounge 7PM FREE
Drew Carey Presents the Best of the Midnight Show @ Irvine Improv 7PM/9PM $30/2 item min.
The Donkey Show @ Dangerfield’s 3 8PM $5
Dwayne Perkins @ Flappers Burbank 8PM/10PM $17/2 item min.
The Thrilling Adventure Hour @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 8:30PM $25
Field Day @ Little Modern 10PM $3
Comedy Juice @ Ice House Stage 2 10:30PM $10/2 drink min.
Clownvis Presley @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10:30PM $5
The Tomorrow Show Presents The Small Lynch Hour @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
OPEN MIC RUN
SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Starts 2PM/feedback given at end
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/5PM to 11PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/coffee & water provided
DAILY GRIND 109 E. Union St., Pasadena, CA/Starts 5PM/First come, first served/No purchase necessary/5 min.
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/One drink min./First come, first served
DANGERFIELD’S 3 2524 ½ James M. Wood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/Lottery/3-5 min./$2 cover
THE LITTLE MODERN 6476 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6:30PM/Sign-up 6:15PM/lottery/10 spots only/5 min. each/No purchase necessary
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd and 4th St.)/Sign-up (lottery) 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/no purchase necessary/4 min.
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/lottery
If you’re not one of the 23,000+ followers on Twitter that follow @EveryTweet_Ever, it’s a Twitter account that encapsulates the nature of Twitter and how the majority of its users act/react in a very funny way. His name is Chris Serico and he’s thankful his experiment has worked.
Kelly Carlin’s A Carlin Home Companion @ Alberta Rose Theatre (Portland, OR) Sun. May 13th 7PM $18
Brent Weinbach w/DJ Douggpound @ Comedy Underground (Seattle, WA) May. 17th-20th
Nick Youssef and Nick Griffin @ The Punch Line (San Francisco, CA) May 23rd-26th
Pete Holmes @ Addison Improv (Addison, TX) July 12th-15th
If we gave you a hundred guesses as to what happens in this sketch from Women Comedy (Dave Ross, Jake Weisman, and Allen Strickland Williams) just based off the title, you wouldn’t guess correctly and still laugh pretty hard when you watch (despite being tired from all the guessing).
Tommy Johnagin’s got more than a handful of great appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and this set is certainly no different. Click picture of Johnagin in a “politician pose” to watch clip.
Out to promote his new children’s book I Am Pole (and So Can You), Stephen Colbert got sublimely absurd on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon telling everyone to get a Super PAC in order to find buried treasure, then, to only play soccer while in a bubble against Fallon.
Just watch the clips if you’re in doubt about what you just read.
–Parks and Recreation got renewed. So, the cross-generational war founded on so-called .gif based comedy" can rage on.
–Don’t Trust the B**** in Apt. 23 and Happy Endings also go renewed. Can’t wait to see Andre do a late night panel and talk about the polar opposites characters on Apt. 23 and The Eric Andre Show.
–The trailer for Anchorman 2 attached to Dictator screenings. Expect a trailer for the online trailer to be teased out by some random appearance by Ferrell.
–The director of horror comedy favorite “Tucker & Dale vs. Evil”, Eli Craig, set for next film. With this news, horror comedy as a genre will have gotten past Jennifer’s Body.
–Best Friends Forever got cancelled. We said that Facebook campaign wouldn’t help.
