Paul F. Tompkins and his puppet pundit cadre give 2014 the proper send off on Fusion’s No, You Shut Up!
Watch the whole year end wrap up special here.
Side note: The title “No, You Shut Up!” also happens to perfectly embody much of 2014.
Every year, LA Weekly comes out with it’s “Best Of” issue that lists the best niche, amazing things to do in this wonderful city of Los Angeles. For their 2014 edition, Echoes Under Sunset, Comedy Is Dead, The Champs podcast, The Improv, and The Virgil all get pretty great and deserved shout outs.
Check out the whole list here.
Car-Jumper making its 21st episode, another episode in the little known life of a sign-spinner, and more are all part of the Sept. 2014 edition of Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab‘s Channel 101.
2014 Bridgetown Comedy Festival Line-up Announced
Matt Braunger, Kumail Nanjiani, Dan Harmon, Morgan Murphy, Wil Anderson, Sean Patton, Jonah Ray, Jamie Lee, Nate Bargatze, Julian McCullough, Andres du Bouchet, Aparna Nancherla, Ron Funches, Baron Vaughn, Jon Daly, Brendon Walsh, Adrienne Iapalucci, Hari Kondabolu, Ian Karmel, Sean O’Connor, Ahmed Bharoocha, Jay Larson, Sim Simmons, Hampton Yount, Auggie Smith, Dave Stone, Kevin Avery, Kristine Levine, Byron Bowers, Mike Lebovitz, Barbara Holm, Tony Sam, Nick Cobb, Jesse Elias Ryan Singer, Eliza Skinner, and way, way, way more hilarious folks will be in Portland, OR for The Bridgetown Comedy Festival this year May 8th-May 11th.
Pretty nice, huh? Maybe you should get your passes ASAP then.
13th Annual SF Sketchfest Line-Up Is Gigantic and Great Per Usual
Key & Peele (Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele); a salute to Bay Area comedy legends Coyle & Sharpe, Mike White, Revenge of the Nerds 30th Anniversary Cast Reunion, Top Secret! 30th Anniversary with Jim Abrahams, Cabin Boy 20th Anniversary with Chris Elliott and Adam Resnick, special panels with the casts of Futurama and The Venture Brothers, Wits with John Moe, appearances by comedians and actors such as Pamela Adlon, Eric Andre, Todd Barry, Doug Benson, Michael Ian Black, Dan Castellaneta, Rob Corddry, Andrew Daly, Rachel Dratch, Dave Foley, Brett Gelman, Chris Gethard, Jon Glaser, Bobcat Goldthwait, Gilbert Gottfried, Dana Gould, Chris Hardwick, Tim Heidecker, Joel Hodgson, Rob Huebel, Jen Kirkman, David Koechner, Natasha Leggero, Thomas Lennon, Kevin McDonald, Adam McKay, Laraine Newman, Jimmy Pardo, Kevin Pollak, Paul Scheer, Michael Showalter, Jenny Slate, Stephen Tobolowsky, Paul F. Tompkins, David Wain, Fred Willard, Barbara Gray, Barbara Holm, Ben San Del, Brandie Posey, Claire Titelman, Dave Ross, David Angelo, Ever Mainard, JC Coccoli, Jesse Elias, Joselyn Hughes, Katie Crown, Lauren Ashley Bishop, Lauri Roggenkamp, Matt Knudsen, The Puterbaugh Sisters, Rob Christensen,Ron Babcock, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Megan Mullally’s band Nancy and Beth Competitive Erotic Fan Fiction, Iron Comic, Tournament of Nerds, improv4humans, Talk Show: The Game Show, Super Ego, Harmontown, Gelmania, and Maya Rudolph’s Prince cover-band Princess; plus many more will all be at SF Sketchfest next year Jan. 23rd-Feb. 14th.
Dramedy Reigns in This Year’s Spirit Awards Nominations
While there absolutely is a bias towards drama with The Oscars, comedy has a little more of a chance with The Spirit Awards as many indie comedies tend to be better received critically.
Even with that in mind, this year’s Spirit Awards definitely skewed towards dramas with lots of hilarious moments, comedies with lots of tension (and the two outright comedies in the wonderful In A World and Computer Chess) including Nebraska, Spectacular Now, Blue Jasmine, Inside Llewyn Davis, Frances Ha, Crystal Fairy, , Afternoon Delight, and Don Jon.
We’re not suggesting that’s necessarily a bad thing (we’ve seen the majority of these films and they were all pretty great), but it’s definitely a trend.
Monty Python Live Reunion Happening Next Summer
So, during summer 2014, Monty Python will come out for their already highly anticipated live reunion (you can buy tickets starting next week), which is also being planned for a DVD release for the millions of us that won’t be able to be in London for what is sure to be one of the biggest comedy events of all of next year.