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Crashing on the Couch of Comedy Central’s Demo Led Nikki Glaser to Play a Game of Football Without Knowing How to Play

August 31, 2014

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The latest day/episode of Comedy Central’s experiment of Comedians Crashing Couches where Nikki Glaser stays at the place of a bunch young people has led to a friendly football game.

Unfortunately, Nikki has volunteered to play without knowing too many of the rules and has recruited Emmy Blotnick, Henry Phillips, Brody Stevens, and Chris Fairbanks in a button down to play against one of her current roommates.

Watch it all go down here while you take a break from possibly watching pro football.

Who Wins In a Showdown of the Worst BBQ Guest? CC:Social Holds a Tournament to Find Out

August 30, 2014

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While you may be intending to have a nice Labor Day BBQ this weekend, you will no doubt expect that there will be some guests that are less than desirable that find their way to your get together.

CC:Studios’ CC:Social Scene held a fighting game style tournament (of sorts) to see who really is the worst BBQ guest.

Who wins? Just watch to find out. (Spoiler alert: no one wins in this contest. No one.)

Here’s Who Will Be Taping for This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir

August 29, 2014

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The latest tapings of Comedy Central’s are indeed set for next month on Sept 9th, 15th, and 16th at Cheetah’s Club and now, their line-ups have just been announced (and it’s going to be pretty damn good).

Set to tell a story of something absolutely insane happening will be:

Cristela Alonzo
Rob Corddry
DL Hughley
Keegan-Michael Key
Bobby Lee
Starlee Kine
Marc Maron
Joe Rogan
Paul Scheer
Ms. Pat Williams
Bert Kreischer
Jay Larson
Ralphie May
Iliza Shlesinger
Cy Amundson
Jay Oakerson
Tom Papa
Steve Rannazzisi
Rory Scovel
Sean O’Connor
Ali Siddiq
Duncan Trussell
Will Weldon
Kevin Christy
Joey Diaz
Barry Rothbart
Giulia Rozzi

So, get your tickets here.

Watch Jon Daly Be More Ryan Gosling Than Ryan Gosling on Meltdown

August 27, 2014

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Leave it to Jon Daly to take an impression of a celebrity and have it go completely and delightfully off the rails.

Just watch him impersonate Ryan Gosling in a way that no one, including Ryan Gosling, has ever done before on a recent episode of The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail.

This Is Not Happening The TV Series Taping in LA Next Month

August 24, 2014

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Earlier this year, we all got the great news that CC:Studios’ This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir web series graduated to an actual TV series to air on Comedy Central.

Well, the TV series is going to tape starting next month here in LA and you can free tickets to the taping so long as you get them as soon as you can. There will be six shows total: Tues. Sept. 9th (6:30PM/9PM), Mon. Sept. 15th (6:30PM/9PM), and Tues. Sept. 16th (6:30PM/9PM).

We highly recommend not missing out on this so you can catch story like this, this, or this live.

Nikki Glaser Continues to Crash/Survive at a House of YouTubers

August 23, 2014

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Comedy Central’s web series Comedians Crashing Couches goes forward with Nikki Glaser trying to not go crazy in a house full of people that make YouTube videos for a living in an attempt to see what makes Comedy Central’s viewership tick.

As a result, she tries making her first rap collaboration/“haul video” and then does a yard sale to clean up a room that is used as a closet because no one’s individual closet is big enough for any of their stuff.

Needless to say, Glaser seems like she’s having quite the time rooming with several twentysomethings.

Season 2 of Adam Devine’s House Party’s Got Another Long Row of Great Comedians

August 22, 2014

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According to this trailer for the second season of Adam Devine’s House Party featuring plenty of debauchery in New Orleans with Adam Devine and Adam Ray, there’s going to be plenty of great stand-up from some of our favorite folks to watch on the mic.

They include: Aparna Nancherla, Randy Liedtke, Kristen Schaal, Tone Bell, Nikki Glaser, Ian Karmel, Nick Rutherford, Kurt Braunohler, Mike Bridenstine, Joesph Pera, Billy Bonnell, Rell Battle, Rob Christensen, and way more.

The second season premieres Sept. 9th on Comedy Central, so we suggest not missing it.

Soundcloud Launching New Monetization Plan with Ads Which Might Be Good For Comedy

August 21, 2014

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(via The Hollywood Reporter)

Arguably the audio equivalent of YouTube, Soundcloud has established itself as one of the top services in their niche. They’re now going to implement ads and a potential subscription service with a handful of partners in order for those partners to generate their own revenue with their content.

So far, ads from Comedy Central could play on audio content from Earwolf, AST Records, Funny or Die, or JASH. If this direction continues, this could be a new avenue for podcasts or comedy albums looking to monetize themselves.

Amy Schumer Gets Her First Taste of Doing Voiceover For an Animated Character

August 21, 2014

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Even though Amy Schumer has Inside Amy Schumer and her upcoming movie Trainwreck, she’s still expanding her brand. Being the voice behind an animated cartoon character seems to be the next step according to this “behind-the-scenes” video, even though it’s not what she expected.

Please note, this is probably NSFW.

Comedy Central Orders Animated Pilot Based on @DadBoner

August 21, 2014

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Mike Burns’ renowned Twitter feed character Karl Welzein, better known as “@DadBoner” might be brought closer to life thanks to Comedy Central.

The network has just ordered an animated pilot based off the Twitter feed and the accompanying book Power Moves: Livin’ the American Dream, USA Style.

If this gets picked up, don’t be surprised to see a surge in sales of Bob Seger albums.

Nathan Fielder Gives the Hard Sell to Kids So They’ll Buy “Doink-Its”

August 20, 2014

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Last night’s Nathan For You featured Nathan Fielder possibly at his most determined as he attempted to boost the sales of a toy ball called a “doink-it” by a very “mudslinging-esque” aggressive marketing campaign. The toy company that makes the “doink-it” was more than hesitant about Nathan’s plan, but, needless to say, Nathan didn’t play around.

Watch it all unfold here.

Nathan Fielder Talks Dumb Starbucks and Displeasing Instagram

August 20, 2014

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On Conan last night, Nathan Fielder talked more on his Dumb Starbucks idea on Nathan For You as well as addressing the “unintentionally” explicit Instagrams he took earlier this year, which Instagram wasn’t too pleased with.

Also, Fielder’s interaction with Andy are priceless here.

Comedy Central Has Put Entire First Season of Broad City Online

August 19, 2014

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While they had to put their tour on hold for their highly anticipated second season, you can now obsessively binge watch Abbi and Ilana in Broad City’s entire first season online at Comedy Central right now.

We don’t need to say anymore than that, do we? No, we don’t.

Go watch and enjoy.

EW Readers Pick Parks and Recreation and Drunk History as EWwy Winners

August 18, 2014

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(via Entertainment Weekly)

In the midst of all of the awards dedicated to entertainment on a screen, Entertainment Weekly has put forth their own EWwy Awards based on votes from their readers on what’s best on their TVs.

So, Parks and Recreation took Best Comedy Series, Best Actor [Adam Scott], Best Supporting Actor [Nick Offerman] while Drunk History took Best Variety Series. Of course, perennial award winner Modern Family had to sneak in a win as well with Best Guest Actress [Elizabeth Banks].

Nikki Glaser Is Investigating Comedy Central’s Core Demographic by Crashing on a Couch

August 16, 2014

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To further tap into the zeitgeist, Comedy Central is doing some “investigating” of their core demographic of young people.

More specifically, they’re sending the very funny Nikki Glaser and her producer Emmy Blotnick to a house full of young, creative types to crash on their couch and gather data, however that’s supposed to work. From that, they made a web series aptly called Comedians Crashing Couches.

The first two episodes are up and more so than finding out what the kids are into these days, we’re wondering if Nikki will stay sane through the whole process.

Derek Waters Tells The Origin Story of Drunk History

August 15, 2014

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With Drunk History’s third season ordered at Comedy Central, series creator Derek Waters got to chat with Seth Meyers at Late Night about the actual inception and development of Drunk History.

Spoiler alert: It involves someone getting drunk…

Rory Scovel Is Simply Magical at The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail

August 14, 2014

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Rory Scovel is one of the most spectacular comedians right now and you really need to do yourself a favor and just watch everything he does. That way, you would be sure to catch Rory go for an applause record (i.e. having the audience never stop clapping) and crowd surfing while simultaneously telling jokes at The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.

If you love the playfully unstoppable spirit of Robin Williams live on stage, you will absolutely love this.

Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani on Explicit Graffiti, Being Body Slammed, and More on Conan

August 14, 2014

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With The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail now on Comedy Central, both Jonah and Kumail joined Conan O’Brien in a nice chat covering Kumail’s mom getting grossed out by a certain fictional graffiti logo on Silicon Valley as well as Jonah and Kumail’s hell gig stories and their cartoon crushes that seem to hold true even as adults.

Comedy Central Orders Talk Show Pilot “Gettin’ Some Strange with Kurt Braunohler”

August 14, 2014

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Comedy Central makes another great move by ordering a talk show pilot from the amazing Kurt Braunohler. Braunohler’s Roustabout hasn’t even premiered yet and the network is already wanting more from Kurt, which should be a really good sign for what’s to come.

If you were at the last Riot LA Comedy Festival, you probably got to see the last incarnation of a Kurt Braunohler talk show, which featured interviewing guests with a lie detector test, several “mistimed” surprises, and a second line leading the whole audience through the streets of downtown LA to an after party.

Let’s hope that some semblance of that will make it to the Gettin’ Some Strange pilot.

Chris Hardwick Announces @midnight Renewed for 2015

August 12, 2014

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If you were potentially worried that you might not get to see the index finger of Chris Hardwick point to any number of comedians while yelling out “Points!” in 2015, then potentially worry no more.

As Hardwick stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he announced that the midnight hit at Comedy Central “@midnight” has been picked up for another year at Comedy Central and will run through 2015.

Chris and Jimmy also joked about the possibility of doing a crossover episode with this renewal, but we wouldn’t be surprised at all if The Tonight Show and “@midnight” despite their time slot conflict, did some sort of crossover.

They’ve done some crazy things on “@midnight” in case you haven’t regularly watched it.

Cosby, Bamford, Maron, Buress, More Headlining This Year’s New York Comedy Festival

August 11, 2014

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It shouldn’t be surprising that The New York Comedy Festival along with Comedy Central brings out the big guns when it comes to putting their line-up. This Nov., Bill Cosby, Maria Bamford, Nick Offerman, Hannibal Buress, Marc Maron, Amy Schumer, Bill Maher, Tig Notaro, and more all are headlining the festival.

Running from Nov. 5th-Nov. 9th, tickets are now on sale.

Really, if you’re in or around NYC, you should get tickets for this, The Brooklyn Comedy Festival, and The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival so you can make your comedy plans for the rest of the year.

The Sheriff of Nottingham/James Adomian Searches The Meltdown for Robin Hood

August 10, 2014

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Whether or not you’re familiar with the amazing comedy of James Adomian, his turn as the Sheriff of Nottingham who interrupts comedy shows exclusively to look for Robin Hood and also try to keep up the perception that he “isn’t” a gay villain stereotype is something that absolutely needs to be seen.

Luckily, Adomian got to perform, in full costume, as the Sheriff of Nottingham on The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail on Comedy Central and you can watch it in all of its hilarious glory here.

Inside Amy Schumer Presents My Dream Breakup

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While you’re waiting for new episodes and sketches from Inside Amy Schumer that are due out next year, you can enjoy what a fantasy breakup with your boyfriend or girlfriend could be like if it was made into a TV show.

If you especially hate the person you’re with, you’d probably want My Dream Breakup.

Hillary Clinton Pays a Fun Surprise Visit to The Colbert Report

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While calling out Hillary Clinton’s new book Hard Choices for its supposed excessive name dropping, Stephen Colbert got a surprise when Hillary herself showed up at The Colbert Report desk and addressed not only the name dropping issue, but a truly “hard choice”.

She doesn’t so much as say whether or not that she’s running for a certain office so much as she engages in some high level hijinks with Colbert.

Nathan For You Comes Up With a Way to Invite People to a Party That You Don’t Like But Feel Obligated To Invite Anyway

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The latest exploits of the ever enterprising Nathan Fielder involves an online invitation service, an annoying person that one would know too well, and Nathan’s go to Bill Gates impersonator.

If that’s not enticing enough, the plan to develop a service where you could send certain invites to people that, perhaps, you work with, but don’t like and it would go directly to their spam folder.

That’s pretty clever, but the “test party” that Nathan throws to see if the service works is even better because that Bill Gates impersonator is there.