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The end of this candid backstage interview with Pete Holmes and Tig Notaro is possibly more awkward and funnier than 7 Minutes in Heaven with Mike O’Brien.

Whether doing panel on Kimmel, an impression of Andrew Dice Clay doing an impression of Woody Allen, doing his stand-up, his show Louie debuting Thurs. on FX 10:30PM, which the clip played on Kimmel was absolutely hilarious, on Twitter, chatting with people on Reddit, and even sending e-mails, Louis CK is absolutely worthy of selling out more than half of his shows in a day and raking in North of $4 million.

Watch the interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live now.

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Reported yesterday, writer/filmmaker Nora Ephron has passed away. If you look through her IMDB page as thousands of people are probably doing right now, you’ll realize she has quite the filmography with When Harry Met Sally… and Sleepless in Seattle. Those two films alone succinctly defined so many of the conventions of what has made a romantic comedy a romantic comedy, but in a way that didn’t want you to curse the eventual falling in love between the two leads. 

The sub genre of romantic comedies so often these get put down, and rightfully so, because many of them are unoriginal, predictable, and cardboard all the way through. We can only hope that rewatching Sleepless in Seattle or When Harry Met Sally… restores your faith and make you appreciate what has been so ripely parodied, even today.

10:30PM. FX.

If that’s not your millionth reminder, refresh the page a few more times or until you forget everything else you were supposed to do tonight besides watch Louie.

Also, CK is past selling 100,000 tickets and grossing $4.5 million and he’s on the cover of Entertainment Weekly.

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The first poster for Mike Birbiglia’s Sundance hit Sleepwalk with Me is here! The film, which confronts Birbiglia’s real-life struggles as a touring comedian with a sleepwalking affliction, premiered at Sundance in January and will headline the Just For Laughs Film Festival in Montreal next month.

Todd Barry’s Super Crazy will air on Sat. July 21st 11PM and the DVD/album release will come the following Tues. July 24th.

Also, Todd says that he is going to tour in every theater Louis CK is going to this fall on the same night and charge twice as much through Ticketmaster.

Maybe, passive aggressive remarks over social media is “super crazy” for Todd Barry?

Across the pond, Sky Atlantic HD is bringing 14 episodes of the revolutionary improvised stand-up show, Set List, that started here in Los Angeles. The picture above is their set being built at the Electric Brixton in London.

In short, this will be amazing and will air in the States at some point soon. Not only is the show itself amazing, but they’re line-ups will be just as awe worthy with both Yanks and Brits in Robin Williams, Drew Carey, Ross Noble, Russell Kane, Greg Proops, Frank Skinner, Rich Hall, Dana Gould, Reggie Watts, Todd Barry, Eddie Pepitone, Judah Friedlander, Rick Overton, and more.

Creators Troy Conrad and Paul Provenza have wrought one of the most unique comedy “arenas” in existence by having performers improvise stand-up material on the spot based off of never before seen, bizarre topics such as “genocide note”, “castration addiction”, “snow white supremacist”, and more. The television version will feature 3 comics going through their “set list” magically coming up with material right then and there along with clips from behind the scenes and in the green room without, as we’re happy to report, a language restriction.

Set List has played all over the world a numerous festivals and regularly throughout some of LA’s best comedy venues (UCB, Nerdist Theater). If you no idea what we’re talking about then watch this sizzle reel, then follow them on Twitter and/or Tumblr and see the purest version of how comedians’ brains work. They’ll be doing episodes in San Francisco next month and in LA as well.

By the way, we should probably mention this is one of our favorite shows to see.

Conan sent Billy Eichner to Israel to discuss pressing foreign policy issues as well as Madonna opening her tour in Tel Aviv. Literally, Eichner yells “BRAIDS!” when hearing that Madonna will have braids during her performance. From that alone, Madonna should make her whole publicity team Billy Eichner.

Through drastically opposite in the NSFW spectrum, we are really into the trailers for Frank and Robot and Klown. 

Frank and Robot is a unique, modern take on the buddy heist comedy with, like the title promises, Frank Langella and a robot.

Klown is a Danish comedy described as superior, but more outrageous Hangover.

You watch and guess which is NSFW.

There is a coloring book filled with illustrations of Bill Murray called Thrill Murray that are decidedly harder to color than most coloring books from Belly Kids.

There will soon be a collection of humblebrags in a book, Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty, from none other than Harris Wittels.

With both of these prominently on display at your house, you’ll be the coolest person in your Louie watching party.

There are plenty of British comedians that we all should know, but Matt Kirshen is definitely a great place to start. Watch him tonight on Ferguson CBS 12:35AM.

YouTube just starting rolling out a whole boatload of original programming through their Official Comedy channel. There are several web series that both are comedy and then take a look at it, of which one of the most interesting ones thus far is Behind The Heckle. Self-explanatory from the title, comedians tell their heckling stories, but seemingly without the begging for sympathy that ran through the documentary Heckler (i.e. Seth Herzog performed in front of the birthday party of a dead girl and tried to make jokes about it). 

After rubbing himself all over the furniture on Fallon, Eric Andre keeps trying to take his shirt off in this interview with The Daily not as an audition for the Magic Mike musical. Basically, watch The Eric Andre Show on Adult Swim Sunday 12:30AM.

On this episode of Puddin, the daily live action comic strip with Eddie Pepitone, Thomas Lennon and Angela Trimbur guest star in the most unsettling, yet hilarious mention of JD Salinger’s landmark novel. Also, this episode is a treat for fans of Puddin’ as we go beyond the break room.

According to comedian and friend of Kinane’s Nate Craig, this is Kyle Kinane’s profile on a whiskey bottle with wings on a Trans Am. Why there isn’t an entire wing at a museum dedicated to where art and comedy meet is completely beyond us.

Monthly short form TV series competition, Channel 101, has it’s results in and, no surprise, favorites Gumbel and Oh Shit! come out on top.

If you have no idea what we’re talking about, please go to Channel101.com and be amazed at what do what a thriving creative community could do with television.