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ESPN Takes Notice of ‘Jon Daly is John Daly’

As hilarious comedian Jon Daly has had a Google problem with being often mistaken for golfer John Daly, he has done what only Jon Daly and not John Daly would do: dress up as John Daly, prosthetics, a fat suit, and all, then make a website in order to supposedly merge the two identities in the hopes that people can more easily find the comedy of Jon Daly. 

Jon Daly’s plan has gone so well that ESPN took notice. More details on whether John Daly hears about this as this story develops.

American Songwriter Is Going to Have a Comedy Issue

The magazine that delves into the craft of music, American Songwriter, dedicates an entire issue to comedy, as that’s the seemingly hip magazine thing to do right now. Covering musical comedy acts from Jimmy Fallon to Tenacious D and Brendon Small, you can get an issue now by e-mailing subscriptions@americansongwriter.com. 

Louis CK Breaks Emmy Record Which Is Only Mildly Surprising

Louis C.K. racked up seven Emmy nominations this morning between his FX series, Louie, and his comedy special, Live at the Beacon Theatre, which is definitely impressive, but aren’t we used to “definitely impressive” if not “amazing” from C.K.? He shared his thoughts on getting nominated with the NY Times noting, “That’s a lot of nominations. It feels selfish, because I was really rooting for everybody on my show.”

Yet, Louie is not nominated for Outstanding Comedy Series. Modern Family, 30 Rock, Girls, Saturday Night Live, and Parks and Recreation get plenty of love throughout the rest of the Emmy categories and even Portlandia gets nominated for writing. Above all, we know plenty of you will be checking out YouTube clips of dark horse Nurse Jackie on Showtime after reading the rest of the comedy nominations below

Outstanding Comedy Series
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Girls
Modern Family
30 Rock
Veep

Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
Lena Dunham-Girls
Melissa McCarthy-Mike and Molly
Zooey Deschanel-New Girl
Edie Falco-Nurse Jackie
Amy Poehler-Parks and Recreation
Tina Fey-30 Rock
Julia Louis-Dreyfus-Veep

Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
Jim Parsons-Big Bang Theory
Larry David-Curb Your Enthusiasm
Don Cheadle-House of Lies
Louis C.K.-Louie
Alec Baldwin-30 Rock
Jon Cryer-Two and a Half Men

Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
Mayim Bialik-The Big Bang Theory
Kathryn Joosten-Desperate Housewives
Julie Bowen-Modern Family
Sofia Vergara-Modern Family
Merritt Wever-Nurse Jackie
Kristen Wiig-Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Ed O’Neill-Modern Family
Jesse Tyler Ferguson-Modern Family
Ty Burrell-Modern Familiy
Eric Stonestreet-Modern Family
Max Greenfield-New Girl
Bill Hader-Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series
Dot-Marie Jones-Glee
Maya Rudolph-Saturday Night Live
Melissa McCarthy-Saturday Night Live
Elizabeth Banks-30 Rock
Margaret Cho-30 Rock
Kathy Bates-Two and a Half Men

Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series
Michael J. Fox-Curb Your Enthusiasm
Greg Kinnear-Modern Family
Bobby Cannavale-Nurse Jackie
Jimmy Fallon-Saturday Night Live
Will Arnett-30 Rock
Jon Hamm-30 Rock

Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series
Robert B. Weide-Curb Your Enthusiasm
Lena Dunham-Girls
Louis C.K.-Louie
Jason Winer-Modern Family
Steven Levitan-Modern Family
Jake Kasdan-New Girl

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Community-“Remedial Chaos Theory”-Chris McKenna
Girls-“Pilot”-Lena Dunham
Louie -“Pregnant”-Louis C.K.
Parks And Recreation-“The Debate”-Amy Poehler
Parks And Recreation-“Win, Lose, Or Draw”-Michael Schur

Outstanding Variety Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live 

Outstanding Special Class Programs
84th Annual Academy Awards
The 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards
The 54th Annual Grammy Awards
Herbie Hancock, Gustavo Dudamel And The LA Phil Celebrate Gershwin (Great Performances)
Louis C.K. Live At The Beacon Theatre
65th Annual Tony Awards

Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Portlandia
Real Time With Bill Maher
Saturday Night Live

Animated Program
American Dad 
The Penguins of Madagascar: The Return of The Revenge of Dr. Blowhole
Futurama
Bob’s Burgers
The Simpsons

Full list of 2012 Emmy nominations here. 

Watch the First Sketch of Nick Kroll’s Kroll Show

Ever since it was announced that Nick Kroll was going to have a sketch series on Comedy Central, Kroll Show, formerly Nick Show Kroll, it has been one of the more highly anticipated shows in production (it’ll debut early 2013). 

Here’s the first sketch entitled Chick-Fil-A vs. Chikk Club and see for yourself. 

Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David Relive How Much Time They Wasted on Seinfeld

Jerry Seinfeld’s new web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, just posted its first episode with guest Larry David. There’s no surprise here that it’s kind of like an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. 

FYF Fest Announced Comedy Line-Up

The upcoming FYF Fest in Downtown LA has just announced their comedy line-up, which has only gotten bigger each year they’ve had comedy listed near the bottom of their flyer. David Cross, Pete Holmes, Neil Hamburger, The Eric Andre Show, Maria Bamford, and much much more as you can see in the picture above will be performing in their comedy tent Sept. 1st & 2nd.

Get your passes now.

Dan Harmon’s Harmontown Officially a Podcast

If you’re not familiar with Dan Harmon’s Harmontown, it’s literally over an hour of Dan Harmon doing whatever he wants (perhaps you’d be into that), which could be stories, making Donald Glover play the role of himself while reading an e-mail from a weird relative that’s not a big fan of Community, or anything else percolating in that brilliance coffee pot of a brain from Harmon along with “comptroller” Jeff Davis. 

Now, it’s in podcast form for the Internet to enjoy. They’re already two episodes in

John Oliver’s NY Stand Up Show and Portlandia Brunch Special on Tonight

Get your DVRs set.

Both John Oliver’s NY Stand Up Show and The Portlandia Brunch Special are on tonight on Comedy Central and IFC, respectively, at 11PM. Unless you can watch things simultaneously in the Midwest and on either coast, you’re going to want to catch both, so find a way to watch one now and one later.

Two shows that will cause less of a viewing conflict, Comedy Bang Bang and Bunk will be on IFC at 10PM and 10:30PM, respectively.

Also, there’s no more conflict between Viacom and DirecTV so we can all watch John Oliver tonight at Todd Barry tomorrow in peace. 

Watch Todd Barry on Letterman Now and on Comedy Central Tonight

Todd Barry just did Letterman with a set that’s pretty much a preview of his 1 hr. special “Super Crazy” that debuts tonight on Comedy Central at 11PM. Let’s not get into specifics (i.e. where’s the mic stand during the Letterman set I’m so used to seeing Todd hold?) and just say you should just watch both.

Have Guy Branum & Alex Koll Educate/Joke About Anything You Want

The Factuary is a web series where very funny comedian Guy Branum educates the general public on anything from dubstep to Luxembourg to the rage of MIA with clever graphics and a delightful sidekick Alex Koll.

They’re now looking for what you want to learn about, but have not bothered to Google because of “epic marriage proposal fail” or whatever you type into YouTube. This could be the world’s chance to hear a really great Higgs Boson joke. Watch video for details.

Ted Alexandro’s Tuesday Night Out on Ferguson

Ted Alexandro recounts a wonderful story on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson about him going out, which does sound really vague, but we don’t want to give any of the jokes away, so just watch.

Bob Odenkirk Is Just As Famous Jim Jardashian

While appearing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last week, Bob Odenkirk was concerned that he was not getting his proper due for his illustrious acting career. So, he put a reel together show people his entire body of work. Despite most of you that are reading this here being familiar with all of Odenkirk’s work, this particular reel from a strip mall “video hut” is definitely worth a watch.

Have Paper Figurines of Your Favorite Comedians

The fine folks from across the pond at Paper People absolutely love comedy as they have made an entire series of cut out paper figurines of some of our favorite comedians including (pictured above) Bill Burr, Paul F. Tompkins, Marc Maron, and Pete Holmes as well as Moshe Kasher, Tom Segura, Brendon Walsh, Randy Liedtke & Davey Johnson, Jay Larson, Jim Jefferies, and much more.

They even have the cut out patterns for you to print out in full color so you can comedy nerd out this whole Sunday afternoon.

Just For Laughs Unveils New Faces for 2012

(Adam Cayton Holland via Portroids)

Every year, the prestigious Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Arts Festival makes its picks on who are the comedians to watch as they’ll be watched by, hopefully, millions very soon. This year, amongst three divisions (New Faces, New Faces Characters, New Faces Unrepped), we’re happy to find that many of our favorite performers that we’ve been lucky enough to see come up the ranks before this list came out made it on to JFL’s  including Ron Babcock, Adam Cayton-Holland, Emily Heller, Jamie Lee, Mike Drucker, Will Weldon, Joe Wengert, Jared Logan, Ahmed Bharoocha, and more.

The whole list is below/after the jump.

NEW FACES
David Angelo
Ron Babcock
Mike Burns
Adam Cayton- Holland
Thomas Dale
James Davis
Dominic Dierkes
Mike Drucker
Sean Flannery
Jermaine Fowler
Calise Hawkins
Emily Heller
Jamie Lee
Jared Logan
Adam Lowitt
The Lucas Brothers
Brent Morin
Josh Rabinowitz
Will Weldon
Joe Wengert

NEW FACES: CHARACTERS
Tim Baltz
Rachel Bloom
Tony Cavalero
Brendan Jennings
Lauren Lapkus
Griffin Newman
Sam Richardson
Natasha Rothwell
Greg Worswick

NEW FACES: UNREPPED
Ahmed Bharoocha
Ryan Dalton
Anthony DeVito
Annie Lederman
Joe List
Joe Machi
Nick Mullen
Brian Parise
Tommy Pope
Junior Stopka
Dave Waite 

Ben Kronberg Defends Using A Joke Notebook on Stage

In this second episode of Scott Moran’s wonderful web series, Modern Comedian, comedian Ben Kronberg is profiled, specifically into his jokes and why he often brings one of his many joke notebooks on stage, a practice highly frowned upon by many in the comedy world. Some might argue that, at the very least, he’s telling jokes, one right after the other. It’s a highly divisive issue amongst comedians and industry to say the least.

Yet, he got away with it on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.

Pre-Order Jim Hamilton’s ‘Poems About the Ocean’

For how hysterical Jim Hamilton is (he has one of our coveted tips of the hat), getting his debut album Poems About the Ocean on AST Records should be absolute necessary to any comedy fan, which you can pre-order right now. Whether you choose to pre-order or regular order, there’s also a release party this Fri. at R-Bar in LA where you will more likely than not meet other people who pre-ordered the album and discuss your favorite Jim Hamilton joke, which you’ll never get to the end of because there are so many.   

Entire NTSF:SD:SUV Comic-Con Panel

Considering Paul Scheer’s hijinks with bothering other panels at Comic-Con, it’s sort of surprising that most of the NTSF:SD:SUV panel wasn’t spent dealing with planted hecklers. Anyways, the NTSF:SD:SUV Comic-Con panel is here in it’s entirety to stream for now.