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Just announced this week, both Brian Baumgartner and Craig Robinson are starring in their own series through their boss over at The Office, Greg Daniels. Baumgartner and Robinson are set to be at ABC and NBC, centered around an airline executive and musician, respectively.

Maybe this is the true beginning of the end for multi-cam sitcoms.

Reggie Watts is still hilarious, amazing, and probably a few adjectives we should just make up just for him no matter what he is wearing or what gear he is limited to. Watch his latest appearance on Conan. 

Following great panel appearances on Fallon and Letterman, Tom Hanks decided to step it up on The Colbert Report by doing a DIY Halloween costume/shameless plug of every movie he’s done including Cloud Atlas segment along with a Matt Damon cameo. 

So, he’s going to do the voice of Geoff Peterson on Ferguson next, right?

Todd Glass’ “Todd Glass Stand-Up Special” and Moshe Kasher’s “live in oakland” are available to stream on Netflix right now. Just admit it, along with Jim Jefferies special premeiring tonight, you’re staying in today/tonight and watching stand-up specials.

ON THE HORIZON
CamPAIN & Suffering @ Hollywood Improv Thurs. Nov. 1st 8PM $20/2 item min. 
SuperEgo Live @ UCB Theatre Fri. Nov. 2nd 8PM $10

COMEDY CRAWL
SF Sketchfest Showcase @ UCB Theatre 12PM FREE
Ogre Mage at Space Boners Halloween 3rd Year Anniversary @ Silverlake Lounge 7PM FREE
Channel 101 Screening @ Downtown Independent Theater 8PM/10PM FREE
Karen Rontowski @ Flappers Burbank 8PM/10PM $20/2 item min.
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only)
Sessions with Scott @ Dangerfield’s 3 8:30PM $5
Thirtysomethingminutes with James Adomian and John Roy @ Nerdist Showroom 10PM $10
Who Charted LIVE 100th Episode @ UCB Theatre 10PM $10
Guy Branum Presents Talk Show The Game Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10:30PM $5
The Tomorrow Show w/Ron Lynch Presents Five Minutes or Die Halloween Edition @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
The Walsh Brothers @ UCB Theatre MIDNIGHT $5 

OPEN MIC RUN
DANGERFIELD’S 3 2524 1/2 James M. Wood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6PM/Lottery/3-5min./$2 cover
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/One drink min./First come, first served
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. 
TRIBAL CAFE BEVERLY 3253 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6:30PM/Starts 7PM/Booked show at 9:30/No purchase necessary
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/lottery   

Triumph the Insult Comic Dog made a long awaited return to Conan a couple of nights ago by crashing the last presidential debate, knocking everyone down a couple of notches including the president of Lynn University and a European reporter, and ruining every shot of every other show covering the debate.

In short, this should of been a segment they cut to during the debate.

According to this tweet above and a few other posts yesterday, one of the many projects that Dan Harmon has been working on post-Community has been picked up; this one called Rick and Morty, previously in development, made with Justin Roiland. Luckily, it’s at Adult Swim where the more irreverent side of Harmon is free to roam and make us all double over in laughter.

According to this tweet from Roiland, we’ll have to wait until late 2013 though.

Do we really need an excuse to post a Bill Burr set other than it was his latest TV set?

No, we don’t.

ON THE HORIZON
Jen Kirkman: I’m Giving It To You Rough @ Nerdist Showroom Thurs. Nov. 1st 8PM $8 in adv., $10 at door
Greg Barris CD Release Party @ Mint LA Tues. Nov. 6th 8PM $10 

COMEDY CRAWL
Ba-Rock the Vote @ Bar Lubitsch 7PM $10 suggested donation
What’s Up Tiger Lily?/For Shame Crossover @ Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill 8PM FREE
Harmontown @ Nerdist Showroom 8PM $10
Oh Boy… @ Lola’s 8PM FREE
The Apple Sisters @ The Elephant Lab 8PM $15
Cindy Crawford Comedy Show @ MiMoDa 8:30PM $8
Set List @ iO West 8:30PM $5
Le Village @ Rockwell Table & Stage 9PM FREE
Keep It Clean Comedy @ 1739 Public House 10PM FREE
Dat Shit @ Westwood Brew Co 10:30PM FREE
Crash Test @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 

OPEN MIC RUN
HAPPY HOUR STORY EXPERIMENT @ HOLLYWOOD STUDIO BAR & GRILL 6122 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 6:30PM/Storytelling only/One item min.
RED ROCK 8782 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 7PM/1 item min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served
ANCHOR BAR 2675 Irvine Ave., Costa Mesa, CA/Sign-up 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/5 min.
PALACE RESTAURANT 2112 Hillhurst Ave., Los Angeles, CA (Los Feliz)/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/lottery/No purchase necessary
TRIBAL CAFE BEVERLY 3253 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up7:30PM/Starts 8PM/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
RAINBOW BAR & GRILL 9015 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Sign-up before 8PM/Starts 8:30PM/$2 cover/mixed mic
THE IMPROV SPACE 954 Gayley Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/Ends 11PM/No purchase necessary
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 8PM/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
ECHOES UNDER SUNSET 1310 Glendale Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 8:15PM/First come, first served/One item min.
OFFICE BAR & GRILL 3516 W. Victory Blvd., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 9PM/Starts 9:30PM/First come, first served/5-7 min./No purchase necessary
GROUND ZERO USC 615 Childs Way, Los Angeles, CA (USC Campus nestled between 3 dorms approx. 1 block N. of intersection of Figueroa and Exposition)/USC student sign-up 9PM/Non-USC student sign-up 9:15PM/If not USC student, may possibly not get up/First come, first served/7 min./No purchase necessary
JAKE’S 38 W. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena, CA/Sign-up 9:30PM/Starts 10PM/Lottery/4 min./No purchase necessary    

While there have been many awesome changes in comedy and how it is done and distributed thanks to the Internet, there’s still more to be done. For instance, amazing storytelling driven comedian Tom Shillue, who you might have seen tour with Jim Gaffigan this year, or, hopefully, know through him his stories that have won him awards around the country, is going to release 12 albums over 12 months starting this November. 

The first one is called Better, Stronger, Faster and will be available Nov. 6th. We can’t wait for these albums out because Shillue is really funny, but also we can’t wait to see what every other comedian will do or if podcasts and comedy albums cross paths.

Fox’s ADHD is off to a promising start with the handful of videos they’ve released so far. This latest one is from their upcoming series that will air on Fox next summer, Axe Cop, who many of you will love to know that Nick Offerman is appropriately the voice of. A cop who uses an axe goes trick or treating as what should of happened in Underworld.

In Paul F. Tompkins thankfully returning web series, Speakeasy, Patton Oswalt stops by to chat about taking touring down a notch to be a family man for the sake of his own comedy.

It’s always our feeling that everyone should go see comedy live. Whatever you see on TV or on your laptop is incomparable to what you’d see, hear, feel, laugh at in a live show. For example, Snob Theater was a variety show run by Shawn Robbins featuring the best in comedy and music with a really classy feel in San Francisco for two years. This is a recently posted documentary showing exactly that (Drennon Davis, Chris Thayer, Foxtails Brigade, and more) backing up that first sentence. 

Yes, we know that you’re watching this online, but trust us, it would have been more magical and hilarious live.

We’re so happy to hear that one of our favorite web series, Modern Comedian by Scott Moran, is getting enough notice to be put on PBS Digital Studios in the middle of November. Until then, watch outtakes with, which are all still pretty amazing, of all the episodes featuring Kurt Braunohler, Lynn Shawcroft, Rory Scovel, Todd Glass, and more up to this point.

Though Hurricane Sandy has forced most shows to shut down production, Jimmy Fallon and David Letterman opted to tape their Monday episodes anyway sans audience. It’s bizarre to see the cutaways of no audience and the cast and crew only laughing, but we didn’t feel at a loss or confused while watching the show at all for the lack of applause or room laughs at all. It felt all the more intimate. Give them a watch and see if you like hearing the laughs you normally hear from a warmed-up and prompted audience or not.

After all the hullabaloo this morning of NBC’s Community getting on the air in Canada before it had a set date in the U.S., cast member Yvette Nicole Brown tweeted out that Feb. 7th will be the day Community comes back to NBC at 8PM.

It may have had nothing to do with it, but did a potentially fake post on the Internet force NBC’s hand? Also, will Feb. 7th really be Feb. 7th?