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TCB Debriefing 6/25/24-7/6/24: Brad Howe, Comedy Central, Scam Goddess, Good Cop Great Cop, Bando Stone and the New World, My Old Ass, Martin Mull, How to Die Alone, Jillian Bell, Jiminy Glick, Sam Morril, Wolves of Glendale, Fox Writers Incubator, Richard Lewis
July 6, 2024
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1. Brad Howe came out with one of the weirdest, out-of-left-field, yet still delightful specials of 2024 (and that’s in a year with conceptual/alternative stand-up specials from Conner O’Malley and Hannah Einbinder). Live at the Legion lives in a sort of cinematic universe unto itself where Brad Howe is a townie attempting to make a comedy special at his local American Legion post. More of an extended sketch special than stand-up, the bickering between this version of Howe and the bar flies at the Legion is pretty damn fun and a wild reimagining of what a comedy special could and should be. Please enjoy Brad Howe: Live at the Legion here.

2. Comedy Central‘s website has been sunsetted as part of a move by Paramount to cut their losses (TVLine), which feels like Comedy Central’s days as a channel/network might be numbered. In fact, saying that is even strange in the era of streaming as it’s hard to say that a bunch of folks tune into Comedy Central rather than watch clips of The Daily Show on YouTube or stream Comedy Central content on Paramount+.

3. Laci Mosley‘s Scam Goddess is getting adapted for TV (Deadline). Fingers crossed that a long overdue year of Laci/Scam Goddess is coming very, very soon.

4. Good Cop Great Cop, one of our favorite sketch groups, is finally back and has found a video game that’s so much “deeper” than The Last of Us. Please enjoy it here.

5. Donald Glover‘s turn to comedic action/adventure is a more than refreshing update to a genre that, so far, is more Donald making his mark in genre flicks than trying to fit himself into a rigid box of Star Wars, criminal underworld, or, in the case of his latest movie, Bando & The New World, a post-apocalyptic creatures-feature. See how fun an ill-prepared pop star is in surviving annihilation with the trailer for Bando Stone and the New World here.

6. So many pull quotes for My Old Ass (written and directed by Megan Park) herald it as the coming age of comedy of this generation. Take a gander with the first trailer here with yet another perfect role for Aubrey Plaza and what looks to be star making movie for Maisy Stella. Whether or not My Old Ass will be a definitive coming-of-age comedy has yet to be seen, but we’ll bet that it’ll age better than Superbad. 

7. R.I.P. Martin Mull AKA Gene Parmesan (and the perfect character actor in pretty much, well, everything–just check his filmography here), 1943-2024.

8. Onyx Collective made a lot of noise with UnPrisoned and are looking for another hit with their next comedy How To Die Alone, a series from and created by and starring Natasha Rothwell. Rothwell will play an JFK airport employee who goes from a near death experience to living life to fullest (so, kind of a spiritual sequel to her character on White Lotus).

9. Jillian Bell, who has been killing it in every role she’s had over the last few years including her star turn in Brittany Runs a Marathon, is going to make her directorial debut with Summer of 69 (Deadline). If there’s someone to make a coming-of-age comedy to remember, it might be Bell.

10. Jiminy Glick vs. Gil Faizon should be something that happens as evidenced by Nick Kroll try to be more ridiculous than Martin Short as Glick on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Watch and enjoy it here.

 

11. Classical style stand up is alive and well, complete with sharply cut suit and finely honed punchlines. Take a gander at the trailer for Sam Morril‘s latest hour special, You’ve Changed, here. Look for it on Amazon Prime come July 9th.

12. There might not be sweeter harmonies paired with more absurd premises and lyrics than the songs of Wolves of Glendale. Witness this claim in action for yourself on their Scorpion Train Tour between the US and the UK spanning the rest of the year. Dates/cities/tickets here.

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13.. Congrats to Ronald Metellus and Kirsten Rezazadeh-Jacob for scoring the comedic spots on the Fox Writers’ Incubators (Deadline). Fingers crossed that this will result in a resurgence in strange comedies on Fox.

14. We’ll leave you with this: Want free tix to David Cross @ The Bellwether in LA on 9/21? Let us know and we just might be able to book you up.

TCB Debriefing 3/9-3/11/24: Oscars, Kevin Casey White, Comedy Central, Fahim Anwar, Wicked Little Letters, Deadspin
March 11, 2024
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1. Welp, the 2024 Oscars are in the books and while comedy probably got more nominations than it ever has in the history of AMPAS, it didn’t win as big as we had hoped (or like it did last year with Everything Everywhere All at Once). Best Picture went to a more traditional Oscar type movie with Christopher Nolan’s epic Oppenheimer, a biopic dedicated to Robert J. Oppenheimer, a man who might have altered the course of human history as much as any historical figure on record.

For the major categories, here are the comedy Oscar winners for this year:

Best Actress-Emma Stone, Poor Things
Best Supporting Actress-Da’Vine Joy Randolph, The Holdovers
Best Adapted Screenplay-Cord Jefferson, American Fiction
Best Live Action Short Film-Wes Anderson, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

To see all the winners of the 2024 Oscars, take a gander at them here.

2. For all the years that go into getting good enough to do a stand-up comedy special, then the additional year(s) or so that it would take to get ready for that special, there’s is so very much riding on the night of taping for a comedian to get through their hour flawlessly and stick the landing. That said, that dynamic often differs vastly from what actually makes a great night of live stand-up comedy, full of vibrant connection with the audience and truly unplanned surprises mined by a seasoned comedian.

NYC comedian Kevin Casey White, in a refreshing move against the grain, really goes for broke and letting chaos ride in his just released special, Harangue. To be clear, it’s not all crowd work (which so often feels manufactured at this point too, especially if you’re telling the audience, then the subsequent viewers at home that it’s a “crowd work” special) or a large swath of the audience heckling. White has plenty of great material about his rambunctious life choices.

That said, he puts his money where his mouth is and goes as deep as he can with an audience member who got stood up on a date that was supposed to happen at his taping. The jumping back and forth between succinct material and what is a really wild audience interaction (NOT born out of heckling) isn’t something that could have been entirely foreseen in the months White prepped for the special. And yet, he’s so present on stage and so quick to follow the comedy in the moment that the journey is so damn fun. Harangue showcases that perfectly and is one of those rare specials these days that not only clues somebody as to how much damn fun a night of comedy could be as well as capturing that ever elusive “lighting in a bottle”.

Kevin Casey White: Harangue is now streaming on YouTube. Please enjoy it here.

3. Comedy Central’s latest batch of digital only, short form sets, Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring has the latest batch (season 15) coming very soon; Wednesday this week to be exact. Take a gander at the likes of Sean Patton, Amberia Allen, Morgan Jay, Amy Silverberg, Logan Guntzelman, and more recorded live at LA’s Lodge Room here.

4. Fahim Anwar’s latest hour special seems to have been flagged by YouTube after Anwar thought he took all the necessary precautions, even going so far as to have someone at YouTube to make sure everything is up to code. Despite all his efforts, Anwar’s special was algorithmically slowed down causing Fahim and his team to scramble to cut a cleaner version of his special and retitling the original video as the “uncut version”. Fahim goes into great detail about how all of this happened over, pretty much, just one bit (that he was willing to cut) where he says a certain slur.

5. Olivia Coleman and Jessie Buckley will be swearing the most that ever have on screen in their entire careers with their upcoming film, Wicked Little Letters. A period piece with two celebrated actresses cursing up a storm? We’re fully on board. Take your first look and listen to Wicked Little Letters with the film’s first trailer here.

6. Deadspin, the often alt-comedic voice in sports, had already been sold and bought and turned inside out once, but is going through yet another regime change that has resulted in their entire staff being let go (Variety). The irreverence of the brand will supposedly still be intact, but we shall see. Maybe they’ll get Katie Nolan to do Garbage Time again?

7. We’ll leave you with this: If there is a single issue to bolster voter turnout, maybe it will be finally abolishing Daylight Savings?

Pick of the Day: Comedy Central Featuring (in LA) 1/31
January 25, 2024
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Comedy Central is still indeed a center for comedy in 2024. This will be reaffirmed by the their latest round of tapings for their short form stand-up digital series, Comedy Central Featuring, taped beautifully in gorgeous venues in LA and NYC. The latest round of CCSUF will return to LA’s Lodge Room complete with its ornate wood accents and warm atmosphere on Wed. Jan. 31st.

On the bill is a combo of all time favorites and great newcomers including Sean Patton, Morgan Jay, Zach Noe Towers, Amberia Allen, Andrea Jin, and more for a hot 5-7 minute set that will find its way to YouTube probably months from now.

Per usual, it’s free to attend (with RSVP) and an open bar for an hour. There are two tapings, one at 7PM and another at 9PM. Make sure you’ve got a reservation here.

Pick of the Day: Comedy Central Stand Up Featuring Taping (in NYC) 10/5
September 21, 2023
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Comedy Central is doing its latest round of exclusive tapings for their digital stand-up showcases, which is the most consistent stand-up comedy endeavor from the comedy channel these days. Also, it has been nice to see that these recent tapings have seen comics getting to play fast and loose rather than stick strictly to a set list.

The 2023 NYC Comedy Central Stand-up Featuring will have two tapings at NYC’s beloved Cutting Room on Thurs. Oct. 5th. Per usual, tapings are free to attend so long as you RSVP (do so here).

Slated to perform are choice picks out of the NYC comedy scene:

6:30PM: Ayanna Dookie, Sam Morrison, Chinedu Unaka, Homles, Randall Otis, Lucas Zelnick & Kate Sisk

9PM: Tommy Brennan, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Usama Siddiquee, Mark Smalls, Mav Viola, Asha Ward, Ethan Simmons-Patterson, & Eagle Witt

Again, RSVP here before it fills up! FYI, there is an open bar an hour prior to the show!

 

TCB Debriefing 9/18/23: CCSUF, NYCF, Talk Shows Pause Return, Russell Brand, Barbie, Jonah Kills
September 18, 2023
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1. The latest round of Comedy Central’s digital stand-up showcase, “Featuring” or more explicitly “Comedy Central Stand Up Featuring” just announced its New York line-ups for its latest taping. The likes of Ayanna Dookie, Sam Morrison, Chinedu Unaka, Homles, Randall Otis, Lucas Zelnick, Kate Sisk, Tommy Brennan, Grace Kuhlenschmidt, Usama Sidiquee, Mark Smalls, Mav Viola, Asha Ward, Ethan Simmons-Patterson, and Eagle Witt will be taking the Cutting Room stage on Thurs. Oct. 5th. Admission is free so long as you RSVP to the early or late show here. Thank goodness this came along and the arrival of Comics Unleashed on CBS won’t be on the only short form stand-up you’ll see from a TV network.

2. The New York Comedy Festival, running from Nov. 3rd-12th, just made a big announcement for their line-up and schedule which includes:

Get the full schedule/line-up/tickets all at nycomedyfestival.com/schedule

3. Both Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher have paused their return of their respective talk shows, The Drew Barrymore Show and Real Time with Bill Maher (NY Times), following controversy stemming from the ongoing WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes. Considering negotiations are to resume on Wednesday; let’s hope this is a good omen for talks to pick up in earnest and bring the strikes to an end with fair deals all around.

4. Russell Brand is facing allegations of emotional abuse, sexual assault, and rape during the “height of his fame” and nearly every project and endeavor has been put on pause (BBC). We would wonder how has it taken this long for this to come out, but the story of survivors is so frequent that it’s common knowledge that it could take years and years and years for them to step forward when processing trauma.

5. Barbie has just surpassed The Avengers as the 11th highest grossing domestic release in film history with $626 million in U.S. theaters (Variety). If it makes $30 million more at home, it’ll beat the far less raved about Jurassic World to be in the top 10.

6. Showtime is lining up its ducks for when the strike ends, starting with a UK comedy from UK theater impresario Clem Garrity called Jonah Kills (Deadline). Fingers crossed that this is another sign that we’re nearing the end of the strikes, which has lasted 139 days.

7. We’ll leave you with this: Elon Musk is thinking of starting to charge for use of Twitter/X concluding that it might be the best way to combat bots on the platform. It’s also the best way to finally sink Twitter into oblivion besides trying (and kind of failing) to change its name to X.

 

Jenny Zigrino Sends Up All the Generations with Her Debut Hour Special “Jen-Z”
March 13, 2023
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The tapping of generational divides is a time honored source of comedy and very likely will be until, well, the end of time. That said, it takes exceptional comedic prowess, skill, and talent to find unique, singular footing on such well-tread territory. The keen wit and acumen of Jenny Zigrino in her first marvelous, amazingly self-produced hour special Jen-Z very much hit that mark (as well as broke away from the unfortunate comic habit of purely punching down at younger generations).

Zigrino herself is a Millennial and cheekily called it Jen-Z with plenty of great material on how Generation Z stole the thunder that Millennials had going for them going right before COVID-19 shuddered everything for awhile (Also, Jenny’s COVID material delightfully stands out from the countless hours of it we’ve seen over the last three years). Gen-X and Baby Boomers are in the mix too since Jenny does her due diligence to make inclusively satirize all ages.

Again, Jenny makes sure that any sort of generational bitterness gets evened out by a very insightful and funny balance for folks younger (who want everyone to be sexually gratified) and older (who didn’t have to find love through a dating app). Throughout Jen-Z, it’s a great reminder that people of all times are trying their best and some of the best comedy comes from finding where people’s “best” is sometimes just worthy of a participation trophy.

Jenny Zigrino: Jen-Z is now streaming on YouTube for your convenience, free of charge. Look for Jen-Z as an album from Blonde Medicine on Apr. 14th.

Please Enjoy Caleb Hearon’s Recounting Being Perfectly Roasted by a Child
June 16, 2022
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The fact that Caleb Hearon doesn’t have any sort of album or special is borderline criminal. Hearon is one of the sharpest comics on stage these days and if you haven’t gone and seen him yet, that is also borderline criminal. Hearon has a polish and panache and a sensibility balanced between acerbic and aspirational. Again, go see him take the mic wherever you can, even if it’s out of your way.

For now, in this moment, you’ll have to settle with Hearon’s Comedy Central Featuring set that just dropped today. It’s just a taste of Hearon’s comedy stylings, but it’s a great one that has the story of being comedically skewered by a student of his (ironic considering Hearon’s own roasting skills in his youth)

Watch and see Caleb Hearon’s set here.

Please, Please Enjoy Jes Tom’s Comedy Central Featuring Set
June 2, 2022
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June is, as you should know, Pride, and, as such, you’ll be seeing a pretty fair share of queer comedians on plenty of networks and streaming platforms. Many of those comedians you should be watching, falling in love with, and following whatever they’re doing no matter the time of year.

One of those comics is Jes Tom. Jes is one of the most whipsmart comedians on any stage today with a wealth of sharp observations and stories about gender and sex that are both forward thinking and yet so damn funny. Just see for yourself in their latest set on Comedy Central’s digital stand-up series, Featuring, here.

Then, as we said earlier, follow everything they do @jesthekid on IG.

Please Enjoy Jamel Johnson’s Comedy Central Stand-up Featuring Set
May 19, 2022
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If you follow us and you somehow don’t know about Jamel Johnson, you seriously need to address that issue. Jamel has been killing it on every stage that we’ve seen him on with his charming frustrations with many of life’s smallest absurdities (as well as a few big ones too).

Jamel got handpicked to be part of the latest crop of Comedy Central’s digital stand-up series Comedy Central Stand-up Featuring and Jamel put up a ridiculously fun set from wire to wire. In fact, this performance, much like every other performance we’ve seen from Jamel, makes us wonder why he hasn’t been tapped to host some sort of lifestyle/culture show where he just gives his hot takes on everything under the sun.

Make your day better and watch Jamel’s set here.

Ismael Loutfi’s “Sound It Out” Is a Hilarious, Yet Deep Half-Hour Special About Being Muslim in America
March 14, 2022
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Over the last few years, you’ve seen the rise of Hasan Minhaj and Ramy Youssef and, in their ascent, we have all been given a beautiful and humorous look into the life of being Muslim in America. That said, that doesn’t mean that “box” is checked off and there isn’t more to be expressed in comedy from the American Muslim perspective. In fact, there’s so much that hasn’t been joked about and Ismael Loutfi dissects this identity and the narratives attached to in such a precise and uproarious way in his new Comedy Central half-hour special, Sound It Out.

For our money, aside from Minhaj and Youssef and so many other practicing Muslim comedians, Loutfi might be the sharpest writer of them all. The depth and nuance that he has with which he dives into any sort of observation, even the politics of pronouncing his name correctly, is astounding and has such a great twists, tags, and punchlines. Loutfi, from this special, is hopefully taking up the torch for the notion of “representation matters” equating to more than just voice from one background, especially if they’re so damn funny.

Ismael Loutfi: Sound It Out is streaming on Comedy Central Stand-Up’s YouTube channel for free here. Please watch and enjoy ASAP.

Please Enjoy Yedoye Travis’ Debut Special “Bury Me Loose”
February 28, 2022
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Often, when watching so many comedy specials and listening to hour after hour of comedy albums (not to mention countless number of live comedy shows with an even more innumerable amount of comedians on them) , it’s not uncommon to get a sense of whether comedians are present on stage versus them sounding so rehearsed. The chase for give that illusory feeling of spontaneity and the sharpness of a well crafted joke or bit is a major part of the enigma of why comedy is so persistently difficult and why there is a very small percentage of folks that draw you in with their comedic verve and expertise.

Yedoye Travis is one such refreshing jolt of energy and wit that has dazzled the NYC comedy scene for years now. Every time we see Yedoye, his performances are teeming with such urgency (further emphasized by his humorously sardonic requests to the audience shut up so he can get through jokes) that we stop thinking about the mechanics of any of his bits or how well thought out his point of view as well as the perspectives of others are considered and simply just have as much fun as he’s having on stage.

All of that jaunty lightning is captured in a bottle for his debut half-hour special from Comedy Central, Bury Me Loose. So far, it’s one of our favorite specials of this year and, lucky for you, it’s on YouTube for FREE to see for yourself. Get into Yedoye Travis: Bury Me Loose right here right now.

Pick of the Day: Comedy Central Stand Up Featuring Tapings (in LA) 3/1
February 9, 2022
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Comedy Central is doing another round, their 10th season in fact, of their short form digital stand-up series, Comedy Central Stand Up Featuring in LA. As the Satellite has sadly closed its doors awhile ago, CC will be going to another hip venue in LA on Tues. Mar. 1st, the even more kitschy Lodge Room in Highland Park (the place where you can catch Paul F. Tompkins on a somewhat regular basis these days).

Also, of course, they have rows upon rows upon rows of great handpicked comedians that, if you’re reading this, you’ve might have come to know and love by seeing them making the rounds in LA, NYC, and elsewhere. This gorgeous line-up will include (over 3 shows):

6PM: Brittany Schmitt, Mike Mulloy, Jes Tom, Jamel Johnson, Brandon Wardell & Chloe Radcliffe

8PM: Daniel Weingarten, Giulia Rozzi, Niles Abston, Felonius Munk, Mo Welch & Chloe Hillard

10PM: Danielle Perez, Joey Avery, Ali Macofsky, Sean Grant, Katrina Davis & Caleb Hearon

The show is FREE (almost nothing is free at the Lodge Room, FYI) with RSVP to 21+ with proof of vaccination. Go get your tickets right this second at theblacklistnyc.com/ccsufla.

Roy Wood Jr.’s 3rd Special “Imperfect Messenger” to Premiere on 10/29
October 21, 2021
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At a time where we’re in a bit of stand-up special desert (though there’s plenty of tapings happening right now, so that’s going to change real, real soon), Roy Wood Jr. is going to have his 3rd special, Imperfect Messenger, at Comedy Central.

In fact, because there seems to be a race to get back to putting comedy specials back on screen on a more regular basis, Roy just taped this special last week on 10/16 and they’re turning it around really fast to premiere on Comedy Central next Fri. on Oct. 29th at 7:30PM ET/10:30PM ET.

We were lucky enough to get a bit of sneak peek while we were in NYC at Caveat and, unsurprisingly, it’s really, really good. Wood Jr.’s powers of observations seem to be at their height and he definitely doesn’t avoid talking anything and everything that happened in the last year and a half. To that point, this might be one of the first network comedy specials with an in-person audience on this side of the pandemic, which will undoubtedly be its own very intriguing niche (just like all those virtual and drive-in specials were something unto themselves).

Ilana Glazer’s Going to Have a Big Variety Comedy Special “Comedy on Earth: NYC 2020-2021” Next Month
August 26, 2021
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Again, comedy specials aren’t as plentiful as they once were in the before times. Maybe that’s a good thing in the sense that it’s yet another we’ll appreciate now that we don’t have it so readily available in our lives? Also, not every comedian needs to do new hour special every year or two. Thank goodness we’re breaking away from that model.

With all of that in mind, Comedy Central’s latest live comedy special will be a variety special presented by the one and only Ilana Glazer. From the looks of it, it was a year in the making and will feature sketch, stand-up, and more (from the gracious likes of Lacey Jeka and Kristen Buckels, Larry Owens, Alison Leiby, and Sydnee Washington just to name a few).

We hope that it’ll be a much needed reset from a plethora of traditional stand-up specials as well as a look into how folks even pulled off comedy in NYC from last year to this year.

Look for the premiere of what will be called Ilana Glazer Presents Comedy on Earth: NYC 2020-2021 on Fri. Sept. 10th at 11PM on Comedy Central.

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Comedy Central Announces Half Hour Specials for Ian Lara, RB Butcher, and Yedoye Travis
July 27, 2021
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‘Tis the season for stand-up comedy announcements.

Just over the last few weeks, you’ve got the roster for the latest half hour specials at Netflix, this year’s JFL Montreal New Faces of Comedy, and the line-up for Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival.

Now, you can add another big time announcement with Comedy Central‘s picking of Ian Lara (who was just named as a JFL New Face and just had an HBO Latino special), RB Butcher, and Yedoye Travis to tape half hour specials this Friday at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. You might notice that the three comics chosen represent a much smaller group of half-hour specials than in past years (though, maybe Comedy Central will order up more?). Also, this will be the first time the Knitting Factory will be featured in these sorts of high profile specials, which, given its comedy history over the last decade or so, is most certainly deserved.

Also, this will be the first taping for Comedy Central, since lockdown started, that will be done indoors (proof vaccination will be required for audience members). There were some outdoor performances that the cable network taped last year, but this signals a return and looking forward for CC and what we’re sure will be great shows.

Tickets are available for free, so long as you RSVP at theblacklistnyc.com/ccknit.

Nikki Glaser to Host The Hall of Flame: Top 100 Comedy Central Roast Moments
March 11, 2021
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When it comes to comedy roasting these days, it’s pretty clear that Nikki Glaser is one of the best in the game and has been for the last several roasts put on by Comedy Central.

With Comedy Central going through their vault of their numerous roast specials for the upcoming “Hall of Flame” series, it’s subsequently pretty perfect that Nikki is hosting (and very likely adding her very own whipsmart commentary on the line-up of clips to be presented).

Starting Mon. Mar. 29th at 10PM, this “Hall of Flame” will be cherry picking 100 choice clips throughout their entire roasting history. Get a taste of what’s to come from Nikki and “the Hall” here.

 

Comedy Central Has Already Taped a New Round of “Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring” Set to Premiere Dec. 1st
October 27, 2020
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With stand-up comedy getting its footing with outdoor shows (wherever they can happen), it was inevitable that a network would make a run at trying to film it in order to have some brand new stand-up content.

Comedy Central went ahead and did another round of their popular stand-up digital series Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring in NYC with a socially distant, masked audience (probably done a little safer than SNL form the looks of it) taped outside. The trailer for this latest batch of exclusive stand-up showcase sets almost resemble something like normal, before-times stand-up, but, of course, the material and the cutaways to the crowd are very much of the moment of the COVID-19 pandemic we’re in right now.

Rosebud Baker, Mary Beth Barone, Brittany Carney, Christi Chiello, Andy Haynes, Josh Johnson, Ismael Loutfi, Gavin Matts, Monroe Martin, Rebecca O’Neal and Eagle Witt all got to take the stage for this very special edition of CC’s digital stand-up series and will very likely have set a precedent of what stand-up comedy will look like for awhile.

Take a look for yourself with the trailer for this round of Comedy Central Stand-Up Featuring here, then look for it to start streaming on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up YouTube channel every week starting Dec. 1st.

Please Enjoy Adam Cayton-Holland’s New Album “Semblance of Normalcy”
August 4, 2020
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When it comes to the blending the “high” and “low” for comedic effect, there are few that are quite as good at it in all of comedy right now as one Adam Cayton-Holland. In fact, he gets more refined and more delightfully salty with every hour that he puts out.

His latest hour, the brand new album Semblance of Normalcy, showcases his painterly attention to detail with grand, sweeping tales from what starts as normal, everyday minutia. Then, Adam expertly mines the perfect moments, the perfect diction, and the perfect twist to spin one hell of a story whether it be about or birdwatching or drinking a Guinness in Ireland. We definitely found ourselves fully immersed into all the worlds of all of his bits and stories throughout the hour, which was a very welcome break from the current reality.

Adam Cayton Holland’s Semblance of Normalcy is out now from Comedy Central Records and be got or streamed wherever you get your favorite comedy albums.

Comedy Central and Edinburgh Fringe Have Made “Comedy Central at The Comedy Store”, a Series of Specials w/Virtual Audience
August 3, 2020
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(via THR)

Since The Edinburgh Fringe, the massive annual performing arts festival that takes over all of Edinburgh is cancelled for this year, the festival could not just stay dormant until next year or whenever they could have thousands upon thousands of shows take over the city for all of August.

So, they’ve partnered with Comedy Central to produce a collection of stand-up comedy specials from favorite performers that they would have presumably been a big hit at the Edinburgh Fringe this year were there no pandemic to deal with. It will be called Comedy Central at The Comedy Store (unrelated to The Comedy Store in LA) and feature host Jamali Maddix and the likes of “up-and-coming” talents Joanne McNally, Thanyia Moore, Leo Reich, Helen Bauer, Travis Jay, Fatiha El-Ghorri, Christopher Bliss, Wayne Mazadza, Jamie D’Souza and Kuan-Wen.

The “episodes” are seven minutes and feature a virtual audience, which might make for a new precedent in making stand-up comedy for TV while the COVID-19 health crisis still exists. Previous to this announcement, the shortest specials produced at a network level were Netflix’s 15 minute specials in the still horribly titled The Comedy Line-Up. Virtual audiences are seemingly going to have figure into any sort of live comedy productions as well and we’re curious to see if they were able to dress it up in anyway like Super Secret Comedy has done with their wall of Zoom audience members.

Comedy Central at the Comedy Store will stream during the week on Comedy Central International’s social media starting Aug. 17th.

Please Enjoy the Opening to Corporate Season 3 (Before Tonight’s Premiere)
July 22, 2020
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Jake Weisman, Matt Ingebretson, and Pat Bishop‘s Corporate has been one of our favorite comedy series time and again over the last few years. We got a sneak peek of this third and final season and Corporate continues to hold up its torch of being one of the best and darkest workplace comedies on television these days.

Not only is it one of the most cinematic looking comedies on TV, but it’s unrelenting satire of all things that live and breathe corporate culture (even as the show is distributed under the umbrella of a media conglomerate corporation) has been thoroughly satisfying, especially if you’re comedy tastes skew to the dark side.

The final season is set to premiere at 10:30PM tonight on Comedy Central. However, you can sneak a preview by watching the wonderfully maniacal opening here.

Comedy Central’s Corporate Gets Final Trailer
July 16, 2020
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Corporate, one of the best dark workplace comedies in the entire pantheon of workplace comedies is returning for its third and final season next week on Comedy Central. If there ever was a time for seeing the inner workings of corporations unapologetically skewered, it would be now. It would almost seem like that feeling has been around for awhile, but it’s certainly more prevalent than ever with corporations putting their employees lives on the line during a pandemic just so they can all go back to work in person.

So, enjoy this trailer for the third and final season from creators and stars Jake Weisman and Matt Ingebretson following the never-ending quest of Hampton DeVille to own and run everything they possibly get their hands on here.

The final season premiere is Wed. July 22nd on Comedy Central.

 

Two More John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch Specials Are On Their Way at Comedy Central
July 7, 2020
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The beloved “for kids” (but not really) variety special John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch charmed Netflix viewers last year with its esoteric and niche adult humor juxtaposed against the framework of a children’s variety TV special. It did such a smash up job in that regard that people are still talking about it several months later as one of their favorite hours of comedy in recent memory.

So, announced today, Comedy Central took that cue (and, we’re guessing, a passed up opportunity by Netflix) to do two more Sack Lunch Bunch specials with Mulaney, one of which will be positioned for the holidays.

Whether will be allowed to gather in public by the times these come out or not, these two upcoming John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch will be worth two more of your hours inside to watch and enjoy.

Please Enjoy This Latest, Vivacious Set from Daniel Webb
July 6, 2020
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We’ve said plenty of things in praise of Daniel Webb here and elsewhere and we will continue to do so because he is such a sharp, quick-witted, subversive charmer.  Since he started making his way from Austin, TX to LA, we’ve always been taken with how undeniably fun his entire persona is and how dark and blue he can go while still maintaining his merry disposition.

As part of Comedy Central’s digital stand-up showcase series, the network caught this marvelous set from Daniel that we’d highly urge you to enjoy here (especially if you’re going to catch him live at the Tribeca Drive-In this weekend).

Comedy Central Orders a Daria Spin-Off “Jodie” with Tracee Ellis Ross as EP and Star
June 19, 2020
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(via Deadline)

The COVID-19 pandemic having shut down and subsequently forcing live action production to vastly reconfigure itself has pushed up animated production to the forefront. Comedy Central is certainly headed in this direction with what they have in their slate.

With Hollywood saying that they’re dedicated to true inclusion and diversity, an order for a spin-off of Daria starring the black character from Daria, Jodie Landon, that would star the voice of and be EP’d Tracee Ellis Ross seems like a nice intersection of all things that Comedy Central, and a lot of other networks, are striving for right now. Called Jodie, it will indeed focus on the journey of the titular character and be updated for the times for the current generation coming of age. Our curiosity is definitely peaked with a Gen-Z spin-off of Daria with black woman at the center of it, but we’re not sure when this will air as of right now (hopefully, sometime later this year?).

Let’s hope that Comedy Central and other networks don’t stop here and order up completely original shows from BIPOC too.

The Comedy Bureau Field Report Ep. 7: David Gborie and Chilling Alone
May 13, 2020
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Comedian/podcaster/voice of Comedy Central David Gborie is this week’s guest on the TCB Field Report. Gborie goes on Zoom with TCB’s Jake Kroeger to run through the last week’s news stories including the passing of the great Jerry Stiller and renewals of Bob’s Burgers and Alternatino and get into how Gborie has maintained a great level of chill, productivity, and his hysterical self all while quarantining alone.

Shout out to: Robbie
Follow David Gborie @thegissilent on Twitter and @coolguyjokes87. Tune into Faded’s Quaranstream every Friday during quarantine 7PM PT/10PM ET and listen to David on the fantasy draft of the anything and everything podcast, All Fantasy Everything.

The Comedy Bureau @thecomedybureau across platforms and please, please support TCB via GoFundMe, Patreon, or on Venmo (@jakekroeger).
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