Tune whatever TV you’re watching to Comedy Central at 12:30AM tonight to catch the premiere of season 2 of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. There’s lots of fun that will be had in this first episode with Hampton Yount, Cameron Esposito, Abbi Jacobson/Ilana Glazer and Andy Daly.
Also, you can catch Kumail on Conan, probably talking about the premiere too at 11PM on TBS.
Mark your calendar if you live in Vegas, Denver, Kansas City, Moab, UT, Louisville, Charlottesville, D.C., or Asbury Park, NJ.
As we reported last week, the amazing Kurt Braunohler will be touring across America with a gigantic butt. Announcing the start of The Love Butt Tour today, Kurt also mentioned that the butt is double-sided, that it’s all for a pilot he’s doing for Comedy Central called Better. Dumber. Faster., and that he’s looking to do shows at the cities listed about that where he and the butt is stopping.
Get more details about Kurt and the butt here, then be sure to catch a glimpse if you’re anywhere on his route. If you’re not, you’ll be able to see photos of the journey on Kurt’s Twitter and Instagram.
Well, looks like both The Simpsons and South Park will stick around a little longer.
Amidst doing press for their follow-up game to Stick of Truth, Matt Stone and Trey Parker touched on where they stand with the entire South Park franchise and if they want to keep the show going.
They’ve been around for a landmark 18 years, still love doing South Park, and managed to do other projects as well, so Stone and Parker are going to keep following the wonderfully absurd lives of a few foul mouthed kids in South Park, CO until Comedy Central cancels the show.
Potentially, this means South Park could be the longest running animated series ever and definitely deserves its own gigantic TV marathon and app/streaming site.
This season of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail seems like it really caught the spirit of the weekly live show. They accomplished that by getting things like Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer from Broad City taking Jonah and Kumail’s clothes and pretending to be them on stage.
Way more stuff like this is in store for this season. So, be sure to catch the premiere tomorrow night at 12:30AM on Comedy Central.
(via Variety)
As far as alien centric entertainment goes, Jeff and Some Aliens is definitely better title than Independence Day Resurgence.
Once part of the animated series, Trip Tank, that featured several different cartoons, Jeff and Some Aliens from Sean Donnelly and Alessandro Minoli has gotten the upgrade to a full fledged series, much in the same way that Golan the Insatiable got upgraded from Fox ADHD all the way to a full Fox animated series.
Coupled with Moonbeam City, Comedy Central’s got some exciting stuff on their animated programming slate.
We went to as many of the tapings for season 2 of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail and we have to say you’re in for lots of treats, many of which involve actual food.
Just watch this behind-the-scenes/inside look/interview with Jonah Ray, Kumail Nanjiani, and producer Emily Gordon to get a sense of the fun that’s in store for all of you.
Also, here’s everyone that’s going to be on this season of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail:
Hampton Yount
Matt Braunger
Adam Pally
Gil Ozeri
Sean Patton
Beth Stelling
Natasha Leggero
Cameron Esposito
Broad City (Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer)
Fred Armisen
Andy Daly
Claudia O’Doherty
Andrew Santino
Joe Mande
John Early
Al Madrigal
Ron Funches
Aparna Nancherla
Hannibal Buress
Kate Berlant
Paul Scheer
Lauren Lapkus
Nick Thune
John Mulaney
Brent Weinbach
Thomas Middleditch
Jak Knight
Bridget Everett
Kurt Braunohler
Brett Gelman
Chelsea Peretti
By now, we have a feeling that you’re going to be into all of this.
Tune in Tues. night, Jun. 30th, 12:30AM on Comedy Central for the premiere.
As one of the most prominent faces and voices of Comedy Central, it’s only fitting that they send Jon Stewart out with a bang.
While it’s invigorating to see Stewart rally for his last few weeks as Donald Trump has announced his presidential candidacy in addition to the fun tributes that have popped up here and there, Comedy Central is putting together a month long goodbye, “Your Month of Zen” if you will, for their star Jon Stewart.
Starting 9AM PST on Fri. Jun. 26th, they’re going to stream all of the 2000+ episodes of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (going all the way back to Jan. 1999) right here. You can also watch the stream on the Comedy Central App.
On Aug. 2nd, fan favorite clips will be put together in an one hour special retrospective called “News Your Own Adventure” hosted by The Daily Show’s current correspondents. We hope this means that there is a whole segment on Stewart yelling about pizza.
This will all lead up to Jon’s final day, Aug. 6th, which will probably won’t involve a sleigh and flying into the night sky like Colbert, but will surely be as memorable.
Why? is Hannibal Buress’ first show that he’s the sole star of. As such, he wants to do everyone on his show to give everything they’ve got to make the best show possible.
Apparently, that includes wearing Hawaiian shirts and Hannibal isn’t afraid to enforce that policy.
Watch what happens in this new promo for Why? premiering July 8th at 10:30PM on Comedy Central.
After, getting a prank stop sign, personalizing greeting cards, raising money to pay a sky writer to write “How Do I Land?”, jet skiing down the Mississippi for goats to be sent to Africa, you’ve got to wonder what’s next on Kurt Braunohler’s delightfully absurdist agenda.
According to his Instagram, he’ll be driving a man made butt that has a heart tattoo with “butt” written on it across this great land of ours starting next week. Presumably, this is the next thing to Roustabout-ish adventure for Comedy Central.
If there is one thing that we know that will bring this country together, it’s Kurt driving a giant butt around.
Stay tuned for more updates soon.
Tune in at 10:30PM tonight on Comedy Central.
That’s when the series premiere of Another Period airs and the world officially gets to meet The Bellacourts, the most self-involved, turn-of-the-century, backwards, yet, still aristocratic family there ever was.
Along with Drunk History, Comedy Central seems to have historical comedy figured out.
It’s Father’s Day and while that’s a celebration of many dads and what they’ve done for their children, for others, it’s less like that.
So, on that note, Happy Father’s Day!
Over the years, you’ve seen Hannibal Buress crush it as a stand-up, actor, restaurant critic, sports reporter, and more.
That has to be part of why Comedy Central has a new show, “Why? with Hannibal Buress” where Hannibal gets to seemingly do and talk about whatever he wants.
You’ll see that in this promo and then be excitedly waiting for its premiere on Comedy Central, Wed. Jul. 8th at 10:30PM.
Before Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome as The Bellacourts get to officially make their worldwide debut on Another Period, on Tues. Jun. 23rd you can watch the pilot episode on CC.com right now.
If you need more enticing to budget a half hour out of your day, just watch this hysterical clip about caring and only caring about moving up the social ladder.
11PM on Comedy Central.
Jeff Ross not only did stand-up in front of inmates at a jail in Texas, he also roasted them as well as have them on stage without any sort of restraints and chatted with them in and around the joint.
Off of those facts alone, you should watch latest special, Jeff Ross Roasts Criminals: Live at Brazos County Jail.
Also, watching Ross roast people not because they’re infamous rather than mostly famous is very enticing.
Once again, tune in at 11PM tonight.
One of the best storytelling series around, This Is Not Happening is back again for what is technically its fourth season.
Two seasons of This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir ran on Comedy Central’s digital arm CC:Studios before getting picked up to run as a full fledged TV series.
Now, it’s going to get a second season at Comedy Central and we’ll get to enjoy diving into the unbelievable things that comedians get themselves into.
Jun. 23rd, the day that Another Period premieres on Comedy Central isn’t that far away.
To gear up for it, you can start familiarizing yourself with The Bellacourts, the old money family that Another Period follows.
Riki Lindhome and Natasha Leggero are two of the main Bellacourts and you can watch how they got to mark some social media firsts before the Internet and certainly social media existed like Twitter…
…Tinder…
…or going viral.
Billed as a “Jeff Ross Adventure”, Jeff Ross really goes to a real prison and lets real inmates watch and hang with him for his latest comedy special “Jeff Ross Roasts Criminals: Live at Brazos County Jail”. He even really roasts people who have done any number of things to land in a Texas prison.
Watch this clip to see that we’re not making this up.
Then tune in to see the whole special on Comedy Central, Sat. Jun. 13th at 11PM.
(via Deadline)
Comedy Central is wise to double down on getting into the Nikki Glaser business.
We were blindsided when Nikki & Sara Live got cancelled at MTV and also surprised that Nikki didn’t immediately get to delve right back into another TV show elsewhere.
Finally, Nikki is set to return with a brand new series “Not Safe with Nikki Glaser”, a panel show focusing on all things sex, and a new hour stand-up special all on Comedy Central. Look for the series and the special sometime next year.
We’re confident that Nikki will one up all the other attempts at a funny sex panel show on TV. We wonder if that will involve talking to people after they just had sex in something more exciting looking than a box.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
This means Viacom’s various Comedy Central networks have festivals on either side of the planet.
As comedy continues to develop as an art form in more places around the world, there are more comedy festivals that are following in suit.
Comedy Central India is now putting on the second Comedy Central Chuckle Festival, which will feature the likes of Russell Brand as well as Indian comedians like the very funny Tanmay Bhat.
This festival will tour throughout India in New Delhi, Bangalore, and Mumbai from Jun. 26th-28th.
Though it’s been two years since the inaugural edition of Chuckle Festival, we wouldn’t be surprised if it keeps getting bigger and happens more often like nearly every comedy festival around the world.
In this new promo, Comedy Central announced the date of Trevor Noah taking the reins to the cornerstone franchise known as The Daily Show.
Trevor’s first episode as the host of The Daily Show will be on Sept. 28th, just under two months after Jon Stewart tapes his finale episode. It’s also almost three weeks after The Late Show With Stephen Colbert starts.
So, as we get ready for the coming of fall, also get ready for a new Daily Show that has a host that’s ditching dress shoes for sneakers in the promo.
Eat your heart out Downton Abbey.
The premiere of Comedy Central’s Another Period, that’s almost set only a few years before Downton Abbey, is soon, Jun. 23rd,
Before that, catch a glimpse of the opulence from Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome that’s could be considered turn of the century equivalent of The Kardashians in this teaser.
(via Entertainment Weekly)
Comedy Central is gearing up for another run of hit after hit after hit after… well you get it.
Whether it is already or not, Comedy Central is should become a frequent destination for your TV watching this Summer as they have one fine line-up of shows coming up.
Coming to Comedy Central this Summer:
Another Period–Tues. Jun. 23rd 10:30PM
Season 2 of The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail-Tues. June 30th 12:30AM
Season 5 of Key & Peele–Wed. July 8th 10PM
Why? With Hannibal Buress–Wed. July 8th 10:30PM
Season 2 of Review–Thurs. July 30th 10PM
Tosh.0–Tues. Aug. 25th 10PM
Season 3 of Drunk History–Tues. Sept. 1st 10:30PM
See? Told you.
Ahead of season 2 of Review on Comedy Central, it would seem that the shows host Forrest MacNeil has gone missing.
The last known sighting of him was captured in this video. Comedy Central requests that you, “please tag all tips regarding his whereabouts with #FindForrest or send them to FindForrestMacNeil@gmail.com.”
Our guess is that you should look for Andy Daly somewhere in LA, perhaps with an Irish accent.
(via Deadline)
For all of us that won’t be in Radio City Music Hall, we’ll still get the live experience.
Comedy Central is actually doing a live-to-air comedy special with the one and only Brian Regan on Sept. 26th at 9PM EST. They’ll be broadcasting Brian Regan: Live from Radio City Music Hall and everyone can watch it live on Comedy Central at the same time similar to how the stream Opera at The Met in theaters.
Do mark your calendars for this.
We’re sure that we all can’t wait until season 5 of Key & Peele.
Right out of the gate, Key & Peele go big with the first sketch they released from the upcoming season of the show. They make a full-fledged musical number called Negrotown.
There are dozens of dancers with exquisite direction from the show’s long time director Peter Atencio choreography from go-to comedy-dance choreographer Kathryn Burns, bright floral suits and dresses like they’re in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and, on top of all of that, a poignant and timely message about racial profiling by the police.