Season 4 of Drunk History has more of what you know and love of the edutainment series. Star-studded historical reenactments, mostly accurate historical accounts, and really, really, really drunk people telling a story.
Watch the trailer here, then look for the season premiere on Tuesday, Sept. 27th on Comedy Central.
Kurt Braunohler indeed is taping an hour long stand-up special for Comedy Central. Called Trust Me, he’ll be taping it in Portland, OR at Revolution Hall on Saturday, September 24th.
Given his skywriting, jet skiing, driving a giant butt cross country, and other such large scale acts of absurdity, we personally can’t wait to see what Kurt does with an hour of stand-up on national television.
If you can go, you should go and you can get free tickets here.
‘The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore’ Canceled By Comedy Central
The post-Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert era for Comedy Central’s late night line-up has proven beguiling. Aside from @midnight with Chris Hardwick, reception for Trevor Noah as the host of The Daily Show has been mixed and, apparently, ratings for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore have not been what Comedy Central brass was hoping for.
Thus, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore is no more and Comedy Central is on the hunt for a new 11:30PM show. There is no indication as what that show might be or who they might be going after, but, like it was when Colbert left for The Late Show, Comedy Central has another chance to break even more new ground here if they choose wisely.
With the election looming in November, we’d be curious to see if something might get fast tracked just to not miss out debates, election day, etc.
The Roast of Rob Lowe is set to premiere on Monday, September 5th on Comedy Central.
If there’s indication of how game for this roast Rob is, it should be this very first promo with Rob’s roastmaster, David Spade.
Catch a glimpse of Roast Battle champion Mike Lawrence securing his championship in this final battle against Sarah Tiana while up at JFL Montreal for the special Roast Battle tournament.
You can clearly see how much of a roast joke machine Mike really is.
Accomplished and celebrated comedian Moshe Kasher had a wild childhood that lead to drugs, rampant disregard for the life, mental hopsitals, rehab, and being part of a gang that called themselves the Pure Adrenaline Gangsters.
For This Is Not Happening, he shares a great story, that really paints will the emotional colors, of being a Pure Adrenaline Gangster.
Oh yeah, his book that he mentions, Kasher in the Rye, is still available for purchase.
From a pool of 16 comedians, Sarah Tiana, Earl Skakel, K. Trevor Wilson, and Mike Lawrence have emerged victorious and will face off on the final night of Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle tonight at 10PM on Comedy Central.
Here’s a promo with highlights to catch you up.
At 10PM for the next four nights, Roast Battle gets to do a special televised tournament on Comedy Central presented by Jeff Ross.
See the brackets of the first battles here.
Almost a score ago, some foul mouthed kids from Colorado started a revolution. For the most part, that revolution was a bunch of people trying to imitate Cartman saying “Respect my authoritay!!” as well as deep dive down the satirical minds of Matt Stone and Trey Parker.
In 2016, they’re still keeping all of that alive in South Park and the promo for the newest season pays tribute to that.
Season 20 of South Park premieres Wednesday, September 14th on comedy Central.
Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle is set to debut next week on Comedy Central. Before that, you can get a look at what Roast Battle is in a behind-the-scenes look of the Road to Roast Battle Tour that Ross did earlier this year.
Watch their stop in Austin, TX and at The Comedy Store, where Roast Battle was born.
More of their tour, with some battles, can be seen here.
The Comedy Central web series version of Ian Abramson’s brilliant show 7 Minutes in Purgatory, where comics do a set while separated from a live audience and can’t hear their laughter while that audience can watch remotely, is finally here.
With Comedy Central footing the bill, Ian got a truck outside of the venue to sequester the performers away from the audience so there is absolutely no way that the comedians can hear the audience (on top of noise cancelling ear protection).
Watch what happens when you stick Nick Vatterott…
…musician and fun extraordinaire Dan Deacon…
…and sketch group Wham City get stuck in the back of a truck and try to do comedy.
This might be the most fun roast that Comedy Central has put on in recent memory.
Going burn-for-burn on the televised Roast Battle, tournament style over four nights from July 28-31 at 10PM on Comedy Central will be:
Jimmy Carr vs. Christi Chiello
Earl Skakel vs. Tom Ballard
Mark Normand vs. Tony Hinchcliffe
Steve Rannazzisi vs. Sam Morril
Ralphie May vs. Ms. Pat
Matthew Broussard vs. Mike Lawrence
Sarah Tiana vs. Chris Cubas
Olivia Grace vs. K. Trevor Wilson
Anthony Jeselnik, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman and David Spade are all set to judge the contests next to Roastmaster General Jeff Ross along with Brian Moses officiating.
So, you might not want to miss out on this.
It’s a good sign for a topical comedy show when they can show a tonal flexibility to examine a very serious topic in a very sobering way, then bring it back to a great joke.
That’s what Not Safe with Nikki Glaser did when covering the topic of rape on college campuses, along with an assist from Garbage Time’s own Katie Nolan and the great Ron Funches.
The Daily Show is really going all out this election year.
On top of a week of coverage at both the DNC and RNC, having exclusive Snapchat content, and integrating Amazon’s Alexa into their coverage, one of the most exciting things that The Daily Show with Trevor Noah will be doing is an actual carnival at this ‘carnival’ of a presidential election.
Specifically, at The Republican National Convention next week in Cleveland, Comedy Central will have a whole set of carnival style games that are inspired by the insanity of the campaign trail this year.
This includes:
-RUN FOR THE BORDER: As the marquee activation, “Run for the Border” offers attendees a chance to put their political passion to the test with an interactive game that’s fun for everyone. The activation is oriented in front of an expansive digital projection and features a row of seats equipped with hand controls that propel on-screen avatars in a race to the nearest border.
-THE HALL OF NOT PRESIDENTS: Puts a political spin on fun house mirrors, featuring a hallway full of satirical hairstyles and pantsuits, commonplace to the political landscape.
-THE YUUUGE WALL: Bringing the issue of border control to life with a literal huge wall installation. Complemented by politically-inspired graffiti penned by Cleveland-based artists, participants will also have the chance to leave their own mark.
-GRAB-A-DELEGATE: Participants compete for bragging rights by stepping into a glass wind machine booth and tasked to grab as many paper props as they can (think faux “dirty money” and one nominee’s “deleted emails”).
-HOT BUTTON ISSUES: This whack-a-mole inspired game gives players a fun way to drop the proverbial (foam) hammer on politics and punditry antics, from gun control to climate change to immigration.
-THE DAILY SHOW DESK: The best seat in the house! Positioned as a lounge area with a full-sized replica of Trevor Noah’s “Daily Show” desk, this activation is designed for shareable photo moments as attendees can snap photos from Noah’s chair.
We’re guessing this will be one of the least crazy things that will be at the RNC.
It’s almost unbelievable to think that this all started from open mic comedians about to brawl at The Comedy Store, but Roast Battle coming to television is still very much happening as proven by this teaser.
Get ready for four nights of Roast Battle coming to Comedy Central this Summer on July 28th.
Trevor Noah and all of the correspondents, Hasan Minhaj, Roy Wood Jr., Jordan Klepper, and Desi Lydic had their sincere goodbye to Jessica Williams in her final episode of The Daily Show last night.
Watch it and try not tearing up like Jessica here.
It was so great the first time that Nikki Glaser had herself and Kyle Kinane feed lines to porn stars during their scenes that they thankfully made it into a recurring segment.
This latest one is with Kristen Schaal and she gets to feed lines to Lexington Steele.
10PM on Comedy Central
Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome return for season 2 of Another Period as the unapologetically wealthy face of The Bellacourt family and are really going to rub their wealth in the faces of everyone they meet.
Revel in their chaos tonight and wish that wealthy craziness was left back in 1900.
For This Is Not Happening, Nicole Byer has a whole arsenal of drinking stories that paint a nice tapestry of what exactly happens when she indulges in a “bit” of drinking.
It’s pretty simple. Lots of great, important stuff happened last week in comedy. Like the title says, here are 10 (or so) of those things.
–Chris Gethard wanting to be Kelly Ripa’s sidekick
–John Oliver topping Oprah with nearly $15 million debt forgiveness giveaway
–Trailer for Bassem Youssef’s Democracy Handbook
–Second trailer for HBO’s Vice Principals
–This stand-up set from Brodie Reed
–Danny Jelinek and Chris Sartinsky’s “Mulchtown”
–The Lucas Brothers returning to The Tonight Show
–Comedy Central putting every Key & Peele sketch online
–Angie Tribeca is back for season 2 at TBS, Casual is back for season 2 at Hulu, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser returns to Comedy Central, Ladylike premieres at MTV
–Comedy Central’s next roast will be of Rob Lowe
–Amber Tozer’s memoir Sober Stick Figure
Finally, Comedy Central is getting back to the original roots of comedy roasts with making it about “the ones we love”.
Donald Trump, David Hasselhoff, Justin Bieber, and Charlie Sheen have been the “guests of honor” of Comedy Central’s roasts over the last five years. Roasting those folks is more of an excuse to have YouTube comments get rewritten by professional comedians, who may or may not personally know who they’re roasting, and have that well-crafted hate dished out to those who are hated by a good percentage of people. That line-up is a far cry from the Dean Martin roasts that really put “roasting” on the map as a televised event where beloved celebrities with a sense of humor were roasted by many that were closest to them.
So, it’s great to hear that Rob Lowe, formerly of Parks and Recreation and is a very beloved celebrity, will be the focus of the latest Comedy Central roast. Let’s hope the dais includes something like Aziz Ansari, Jimmy Kimmel, Amy Poehler, etc.
They’ll also have Adam Devine and Jay Pharoah.
The hit show The Goddamn Comedy Jam is getting an hour special on Comedy Central. The names above will do stand-up and then belt out a song of their own along with host/ringleader to the jam, Josh Adam Meyers, at the taping that’s happening on Tuesday, June 21st.
You can try and get on the waitlist for the show here.
(via Deadline)
Workplace comedy is about get taken to a more wonderfully dark place than it probably has ever been.
If you’ve enjoyed WOMEN Comedy at all like we’ve done all these years, you’d know that Comedy Central ordering a workplace comedy series from two of the four members of WOMEN Comedy, Jake Weisman and Pat Bishop, and the very darkly funny Matt Ingebretson is something to celebrate, even if you’re by yourself right now.
The series is called Corporate and will star Jake and Matt as two junior executives that do the dirty work for their bosses at a gigantic corporation called Hampton DeVille. Pat took on directing the pilot and we can only imagine that he’ll continue behind-the-scenes (and probably cameo from time-to-time) like he’s done for so many of their sketches over the years.
We’d guess that it might be akin to one of our favorite WOMEN sketches, Hour Long TV Drama.
If there’s a takeaway from the trailer from the brand new season of Comedy Central’s Another Period, it’s probably to never challenge the outrageously wealthy to be more outrageous, especially in The Gilded Age.
The Bellacourts will see your challenge for this second season and raise you as much havoc as they can afford and then some as they probably have some more money stashed away somewhere or can marry into more wealth.
See for yourself in the season two trailer here.
Look for the series premiere in two weeks on Wednesday, June 15th at 10PM on Comedy Central.
The free tickets are already all taken, but there will be a stand by line for every taping.
The LA comedy institution known as The Meltdown with Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani is going to tape for their third season as a showcase series on Comedy Central in a month and a half. Even though there are plenty of weeks between now and then, all the shows, of which there are eight, are sold out very quickly.
Still, like the actual weekly show, there will be a standby line for the two tapings per night that they’re doing at 7:30PM and 9:30PM on July 12th, 13th, 15th, and 16th. Here are some more details if you’re really set on going.