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Morning Debriefing 3/23/12

1) Welcome Nerdist Industries newest podcast, Cashing In with TJ Miller, with Cash Levy and TJ Miller as the podcast’s only host and guest ever…

2) Geoff Tate on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

3) Perhaps now that Bill Maher has said “stop apologizing” in the NY Times for saying things that may be insensitive and/or offensive, a few more people will listen…

4) Statler and Waldorf took over The Soup!

5) The Spit Take went in-depth on Aziz Ansari’s Dangerously Delicious and what it could mean for comedy in the future.

6) Hangover 3 is in the news again, which we only bring up because Eddie Pepitone will probably do a bit about it that EVERYONE should see.

7) For any readers that happen to be in St. Louis, MO tonight, please catch the wonderfully absurd Nick Vatterott.

8) Comedy Kickstarter round-up:
Creepy Caress: $780 of $6,000  
The San Francisco Comedy and Burrito Festival: $4,349 of $5,000

9) Mind you, this is a .gif from the Fancy & Enchanting-Certainly a Night for Remembering: A Benefit for Leukemia & Lymphoma…

10) If someone is planning to do a joke about the long lines to see the Hunger Games  tonight and how people can enjoy themselves more by waiting in a line at In N’ Out, please don’t.

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Morning Debriefing 3/22/12

1) Dave Chappelle is back on Twitter @ChappelleDavidK (though the account is still not officially verified) and Bill Corbett (MST3K) has joined Tumblr, so maybe you can not hate social networking for a week. 

2) Last night on late night:
–Wendy Liebman on Fallon
-Will Ferrell wore women’s sunglasses, discussed butt sex, and showed his passion for training dogs on Conan  
-Don Rickles on Kimmel Parts One, Two, and Three

3) Remember that time on The Office when Michael Scott ran out first when Ryan burnt a cheesy pita? The Office, as a whole show seems to be doing that in real life as they are looking for new showrunner and Ed Helms has joined Mindy Kaling’s Fox pilot. Along the same lines, The Onion News Network has went “Stamford”.

4) Watch Goatface comedy “do” a “man on the street” “sketch”. (There’s a reason for the quotation marks, so watch)

5) The very funny Candice Thompson and Brenda Colonna are starting their own wonderful web series, Creepy Caress, that needs your help on Kickstarter. 

6) The LA Comedy scene’s, specifically open mics, way of making fun of both the Oscars and itself, The Scoomies, are coming next Tues. Mar. 27th at Westwood Brew Co. Vote for a myriad of ultra-specific categories that only comics would ever come up with…

17th Annual Official SCOOMIE Ballot 2012

1. Least Dysfunctional
2. Best Newcomer
3. Most Prolific 
4. The Ethnic Award
5. Best Beard
6. Meltdown: It Just Got Too Real Award
7. You Don’t Know How Attractive You Are
8. Would Make the Best Guest Star on Downton Abbey
9. Best Hypothetical Couple ___and___
10. The Patience Award: Stays in Room and Actually Watches
11. Most Likely to Sign-Up Other People
12. Comic You Secretly Wish Was Your Best Friend
13. Most Ambitious
14. The TweetBook/Face-ter Award
15. If I Don’t Get an Early Set, I’m Out of Here Award
16. Comedian Who’s Material Would Make the Best Adele Song
17. Smartest Use of Stupidity
18. Best Attitude Despite Still Being Here
19. Most Likely to Have an Eponymous Sitcom on NBC: The “Whitney” Award
20. Best Writer 
21. Always Makes Me Laugh Guy ( Vote for 3)
1. _________________________________________
2._________________________________________
3._________________________________________
22. Always makes me laugh Lady( Vote for 3)
1. _________________________________________
2._________________________________________
3._________________________________________
23. Favorite Joke or Routine( Vote for 3)
1. _________________________________________
2._________________________________________
3._________________________________________

7) It really is wonderful to see Ron Lynch at the Laugh Factory (i.e. one of LA’s most innovative acts at one of the most mainstream venues in town)

8) Robin Williams to be honored at the Comedy Awards as a stand-up icon… 

9) Todd Barry’s touring ‘round the country just as he got a great profile in the NY Times.

10) We’ll just say this about this latest hysterical Midnight Show video: The Midnight Show knows how to educate the general public on everything.

11) It’s a real breakthrough in comedy, in whatever capacity you chose to do it in, when you delve head first into the stupidest thing you’ve ever thought of.

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Morning Debriefing 3/21/12

1) THE perfect way to start off this Wednesday morning is an animated clip of Dana Gould handling a heckler that’s incredibly NSFW.

2) IFC just gave a preview of their new “game show” Bunk where Kurt Braunohler makes some of his favorite comedians like Kumail Nanjiani engage in wonderful non-sense.

3) Two comedy albums from Stand-Up Records that came out yesterday that you should pick up:

Alysia Wood “Princess”
Rick Shapiro “Catalyst for Change”

4) Tonight on late night:
Will Ferrell on Conan (TBS 11PM) 
Don Rickles on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC 12AM) 
Wendy Liebman on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC 12:35AM) 

5) As far as the “industry” is concerned…
Rob Corddry will be in Hell Baby from Tom Lennon and Robert Ben Garant
Tom Papa’s pilot for TBS will have Bill Burr
A synopsis of “Maron” (working title) coming out on IFC

6) The Midnight Show is now part of the Machinima Network! Let Hal Rudnick explain in great detail…

7) Black Book is coming out with their comedy issue…

8) Key & Peele chatted with Jesse Thorn for the A.V. Club.

9) The Red Hot Chili Peppers should be thankful that they will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by Chris Rock and not Jim Hamilton (arguably the creator of the best RHCP joke to date)

10) Because of comedy, I came really close to updating my resume yesterday with “beyond proficient in ‘doing coffee’ daily” as a special skill.

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Morning Debriefing 3/20/12

1) Aziz Ansari joined the likes of Louis CK and Jim Gaffigan by streaming his special online for $5. It’s all going according to plan…

2) Dana Gould on Conan.

3) Eddie Izzard reviving the Munsters on NBC. OK, now we’re on board.

4) Wanna know what happens in the UCB green room? The brand new A Funny Thing Podcast just might be for you, especially since they’re first guest is one of our favorite storytellers, Margot Leitman.

5) Woody Allen’s To Rome With Love will open June 22nd with the folks in these stills (via enternechoplex) that you may recognize…

6) Steve Heisler, on the Spit Take, found that Lewis Black is, basically, still the Lewis Black we all have come to know and love on In God We Rust.

7) Dan Aykroyd set to make a movie with Chevy Chase, despite Bill Murray holding up Ghostbusters sequel.

8) Last night at Set List: the Improvised Stand-Up Show, Roseanne performed and reaffirmed her candidacy for President of the United States.

9) Serial Optimist chatted with the always delightful Wendy Liebman who more folks should know about considering how influential she has become in the way jokes are written and told.

10) 2012 has been a great year for comedy. The world isn’t going to end this year, but even the idea of it, I think, makes people want to laugh so much more.

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Morning Debriefing 3/19/12

1) How to End A Date In 30 Seconds Or Less. It’s educational and funny, so watch.

2) Tonight on late night:
Dana Gould on Conan (TBS 11PM)
Geoff Tate on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS 12:35AM)
Jeffrey Tambor on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC 12:35AM)

3) Nick Turner got “Harry Nilson’d” on the latest episode of King Temp.

4) Hey America! Catch Rob Delaney touring around you!

5) Here’s a small snippet of why you should listen to James Adomian on any podcast.

6) So there’s a Women vs. Doug Stanhope Twitter account…

7) Don’t forget the Fancy and Enchanting: Benefit for Leukemia & Lymphoma is tomorrow night. Great line-up. Great cause.

8) If you had faith in the American movie going masses, there’s this Rotten Tomatoes chart…

                                   

9) The San Francisco Comedy & Burrito Festival Kickstarter: $3,233 of $5,000.

10) I’m not the only one writing comedy while Adagio for Strings is playing, am I?

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Morning Debriefing 3/18/12

 

1) Chris Hardwick just announced the line-up for the upcoming Nerdist Channel, WHICH INCLUDES:
an interview show with Weird Al Yankovic
Revisiting the Kids in the Hall
Neil Patrick Harris with puppets
The Tournament of Nerds
and much, much more. 

2) SXSW Comedy round-up:
Day 7 recap from Laughspin
HuffPo Comedy on Mike Birbiglia’s film adaptation of Sleepwalk with Me
Catch Funny Shits at the Liberty tonight  

3) Tonight, after the 7:30PM screening of Casa De Mi Padre at The Landmark on Pico Blvd. in LA, Will Ferrell will be doing a Q&A.

4) The next Lost Moon Radio show on Apr. 18th, the sketch-variety-musical-comedy extravaganza, is taking requests for your favorite songs and sketches.

5) The Creek and the Cave got into the NY Times!

6) For our readers/followers in San Francisco, make sure to catch “LA-based musical comedian and Twitter sensation” Eli Braden next month at the 50 Social Mason House. Only $5.

7) The WFMU Beware of the Blog visted stand-up comedy’s past meddling with the Mob as part of your education in comedy history.

                      

8) Kurt Metzger had a fascinating chat with FearNet.com about Ugly Americans and how he would get censored on TV based on sponsors getting angry rather than people being offended.

9) The San Francisco Comedy & Burrito Festival Kickstarter: $2,987 of $5,000.

10) For any filmmakers trying to capture the experience of performing comedy on stage, it can often best be described as staring out into a black abyss that you must appease every minute.

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Morning Debriefing 3/17/12

1) IFC gives the Marc Maron series the go-ahead. IFC might start to edge out FX in comedy…

2) Though this probably is no surprise to many given the hype surrounding the current release, Sony is giving 21 Jump Street a sequel.

3) Weird Al Yankovic got a “cabaret tribute tryout” that he didn’t want from Brett Gelman, Tom Lennon, Josh Fadem, Drew Droege, Garfunkel & Oates, and more.

4) Um, The San Francisco Comedy and Burrito Festival only has half their funding. Let’s fix that.

5) An improviser is going to run the LA Marathon this weekend with a blindfold.

6) Ricky Carmona provided us with some names for some “niche” (ethnic, gay, ugly) comedy nights that might, unfortunately, already exist.

7) Slate puts the spotlight on the 2nd most prominent character in Louie, Pamela Adlon.

8) Possibly a new hyper-realistic title card for the Eric Andre Show?

9) Anyone make a Perfect Storm reference in regards to rain, the LA Marathon, and St. Patrick’s Day all happening at the same time? If not, then good, because don’t.

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LA Comedy Rundown 3/17/12

ON THE HORIZON
Fancy and Enchanting: A Benefit for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society @ The Hayworth Theater Tues. Mar. 20th 8PM $30-$100

Comedy at Cinefile: Whitest Kids U Know @ Cinefile Wed. Mar. 21 8:30PM FREE 
 

COMEDY CRAWL
Greg Fitzsimmons @ Hollywood Improv 8PM/10PM $20/2 item min.
Kyle Dunnigan @ Flappers Burbank 8PM/10PM $17/2 item min.
The Anytime Show @ Little Modern 8PM $5
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 8PM $10 (stand by only)
Matt Knudsen @ Hooters on Hollywood Blvd. 8PM FREE 
Giggle N’ Grind Burlesque Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $10
Hour of Power: Presented by Devestator @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10PM $10
The Tomorrow Show w/Ron Lynch Presents Crapshoot! @ Steve Allen Theater MIDNIGHT $8
Tournament of Nerds @ UCB Theatre MIDNIGHT $5 

OPEN MIC RUN
SPOT CAFE 4455 Overland Ave., Culver City, CA/Starts 2PM/feedback given at end
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA/5PM to 11PM/$5 min./multiple sets allowed/coffee & water provided
DAILY GRIND 109 E. Union St., Pasadena, CA/Starts 5PM/First come, first served/No purchase necessary/5 min.
HOLLYWOOD HOTEL 1160 N. Vermont Ave., Los Angeles, CA/Sign-up 6PM/Starts 7PM/One drink min./First come, first served
THE LITTLE MODERN 6476 Santa Monica Blvd., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6:30PM/Sign-up 6:15PM/lottery/10 spots only/5 min. each/No purchase necessary
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St. Promenade, Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd and 4th St.)/Sign-up (lottery) 6PM/Starts 6:30PM/no purchase necessary/4 min. 
FLAPPERS BAR 102 E. Magnolia Ave., Burbank, CA/Sign-up 10PM/Starts MIDNIGHT/lottery  

Morning Debriefing 3/16/12

1) UK’s Telegraph journalist Allison Pearson obviously has not learned that Doug Stanhope isn’t scared by someone “investigating employers” of his because they were offended at something he said to them like “I just went Christian just to pray you get a fetid ovarian cyst. Let me know if it works.”

2) Casa De Mi Padre, Jeff Who Lives at Home, and 21 Jump Street are all out today in theaters. Maybe, if you can afford it, check out one of these as they’re filled with a whole bunch of very funny folks.

3) Community scored some nice ratings in its return last night.

4) Day 6 at SXSW recap and Chris Gethard totally got taken by surprise by Pete Holmes and Judd Apatow.

5) Bob Odenkirk will be doing a whole live show in Portland at the Brody Theater this weekend without having set foot in the theater or really meeting any of his cast.

6) In two interviews worth your time news, David Cross chatted with Brooklyn Magazine and addressed his remarks on Chipwrecked and Jordan Brady, director of I Am Comic, got his brain picked by the Humor Code.

7) The Hollywood Fringe Festival, which is still open for registration for performing, just added the another venue to their roster.

8) See what Gallery 1988’s Is Thing On? exhibition really looks like as well as Weird Al Yankovic seeing art of himself.

9) Is there a Internet Troll/Hater Victims Support Group yet? I feel like that should be a thing.

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Morning Debriefing 3/15/12

1) COMMUNITY IS BACK TONIGHT! NBC 8PM. (also, Comedy Central will soon be playing re-runs), so everything is coming up Harmon (or Jim Rash, if you want to read his AV Club Interview).

2) The Upright Citizens Brigade got profiled on Rock Center with Brian Williams.

3) SXSW Comedy round up:
Set List is happening tonight
Stand-Up Records Showcase is also tonight
Fourth and Fifth day recaps
Huffington Post caught up with Aubrey Plaza 

4) Jake Weisman wrote his own version of Eat Pray Love/his inner monologue and it’s hilarious.

5) Paul F. Tompkins’ Dead Authors gets written up in the Atlantic!

6) Justin Ian Daniels and Andy Peters educated Naked Juice on how to not make juice.

7) Lost Moon Radio will be hosting the LA Weekly Theater Awards, which, if you’ve seen LMR, you’d know that they just might top anything awards hosting wise throughout the last year.

8) Jay and Mark Duplass talk Jeff Who Lives At Home with IFC.

9) This sounds fun and also, there’s burritos, so you should donate: The San Francisco Comedy & Burrito Festival.

10) To anyone writing a joke, sketch, etc. about how you hate hipsters, know that they do not care that you make fun of them. 

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Morning Debriefing 3/14/12

1) Mark Twain Prize for Humor Winner Will Ferrell “spoke” Spanish on Kimmel to the offense of his Casa De Mi Padre co-star Diego Luna, then claimed to not speak Spanish on the Daily Show while wearing a baseball helmet just because it was there.

2) Your favorite shows are coming back assuming that you wanted Portlandia to go for a 3rd season and you wanted Eagleheart to come back on Apr. 12th on Adult Swim. Those of you who wanted Apr. 11th, we’re sorry.

3) Day 3 of SXSW comedy…

4) Kristin Schaal proved last night on the Daily Show that you can call women a whole slew of pejorative terms and make it hilarious.

5) Kyle Kinane’s Death of the Party will be released on vinyl, just as it was intended to be.

6) Ask the funny Amber Tozer a question. Not only will she answer, but it’ll be at Laughspin.

7) Dave Child is a funny comedian who, along with some funny friends of his, will do sketches that are tweeted @Sketch_A_Tweet. You should do this. 

8) Key & Peele got on NPR.

9) We wrote a little something on Woody Allen having the idea for Midnight in Paris, perhaps, almost 50 years ago for the Nerdist.

10) Comedians make so fun of so many ads that there has to be a few that write ad copy that’s so wrong or abstract or ineffective just so they can write a decent joke about it.

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Morning Debriefing 3/13/12

1) Really? Really? Really? Really? Really? Really? Really? Really? Really? There are still people who are offended about humor referencing Nazis? 

2) Last night on late night, Will Ferrell let us in on what was going on with him at Mardi Gras on Letterman.
Tonight…
Will Ferrell will be on both Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC 12AM) and the Daily Show (Comedy Central 11PM)
Jason Segel on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS 12:35AM)

3) Down with Atom.com and up with CC:Studios.

4) Laughter Against the Machine, a documentary following comedy taken to political hotbeds around the country, finally gets a trailer!

5) At SXSW,
Day 2
Kurt Braunohler’s “game show” Bunk goes live
Chris Gethard is going to have a b-day party for a stranger
We’re sad we missed wherever (probably our good friends, The Super Serious Show) Jerrod Carmichael and Reggie Watts we’re hanging.

6) Dave Hill is continuing the trend of awesome funny promo vids for books with this one for his book Tasteful Nudes.

7) The Eddie Pepitone doc The Bitter Buddha got written up in the A.V. Club!

8) Three interviews worth your time:
Barry Sobel in Creative Loafing Atlanta
Ian Edwards in Laughspin
Paul Gilartin in KCET’s Midnight Snack

8) Comedy show on a Monday night in a neighborhood video store? That’s LA for you…

9) Brand new live show Towne Hall Meetin’ has a fun YouTube Channel you should check out right after/before, if you’re able, donating to Towne Hall.

10) Jon Dore shows what comedians think of the It Gets Better campaign…

11) A friendly reminder from the delightful April Richardson not to get too caught up in your ego in the comedy game because there are people who think Bob Odenkirk isn’t funny.

12) Why the fuck are we calling 0% on Rotten Tomatoes coveted? Let’s get back to make things that are good for the sake of them being good, DAMN IT.

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Morning Debriefing 3/12/12

1) If you needed a visual of what a day in the life of Marc Maron is like aside from what he describes on WTF, watch it right now on Hulu.

2) SXSW comedy round-up:
Huffington Post Comedy Day 1 Recap
Laughspin Day 1 Recap
Austin Chronicle recommendations of what to see
Kumail Nanjiani answered a fun questionnaire
Funny or Die, College Humor, UCB, and more PRESENT This Is A Comedy Show (with some of our favorite performers that the rest of the country perhaps had not heard of) 
And this happened… 

3) The funny Jake Fogelnest of the oft-reblogged JakeFogelnest.com is moving to LA!

4) BBC is trying a quiz show here in the U.S. with Lewis Black. That sounds like fun.

5) Tonight on late night, Will Ferrell will be on the Late Show with David Letterman (CBS 11:35PM)

6) Reggie Watts got called in by Kid Ikarus for, apparently, nothing(?)

7) South Park comes back this week…

8) Parks and Recreation’s fictional Leslie Knope got real life support…

9) In you can submit to these short film festivals news, try the Palm Springs International Shortfest and the San Francisco International Festival of Short Films.

10) Dave Horwitz “does” a card trick…

11) Yes, I do feel a little ridiculous recording a podcast outside of Meltdown while they are recording a podcast and commenting on it during my podcast.

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Morning Debriefing 3/11/12

1) Wonder what’s happening with comedy at SXSW? There’s a record of all of it on their official blog.

2) Speaking of which, a comedy panel at SXSW had a fascinating conversation on how most comedy leans towards the left politically…

3) Sadly, after almost a decade of great DIYLCIYOH (Do It Yourself Live Comedy In Your Own House) the Comedy Car Hole has ended, leaving very few DIYLCIYOH’ers in Los Angeles. Perhaps, the upcoming Don’t Tell The Neighbors along with the already popular Long Way Down will fill help fill this increasing DIYLCIYOH void.

4) One of our favorite web series, Danger 5, has now made it to the air in Australia. For bizarrely hilarious it is (i.e. Nazi dinosaurs, etc.), let’s please bring it Stateside however that is supposed to work.

5) If you enjoyed @BretEastonEllis ranting on Twitter yesterday, you should check out comedian Steve Schneider’s feed @stvschndr. It’ll probably top whatever you were going to read this Sun. afternoon.

6) The hilarious Andrés du Bouchet (his album Naked Trampoline Hamlet was one of favorites from last year) has joined in on the Tumblr game. Plenty of silliness and absurdity is sure to abound here.

7) Jeremy Paul’s 8th Naked Declarative Statement. (Disclaimer: This is not a web series at all dealing with grammar.)

8) As we all should do twice a year (or perhaps more for sheer nostalgia’s sake), let us hear Paul F. Tompkins call plenty of us lazy for whining about Daylight Savings Time.

9) I sincerely hope the integration of races and ethnicities accelerates exponentially from this point on so I can stop hearing stupid bits of comedy that might go “You’ll always see an Asian do this and a black guy never do this…” forever.

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Morning Debriefing 3/10/12

1) Let’s all thank Greta Van Susteren for not understanding comedy/not listening and whining about Louis CK being the host of the RTCA dinner in D.C. to where CK has withdrawn from his hosting duties. We’re pretty sure that she probably thinks Louis CK was completely serious when making this mini doc on the Catholic Church.

2) Mike Birbiglia’s Sleepwalk With Me got acquired by IFC Films!

3) You can watch the Comedy Bang Bang extended preview now. Also, we totally called it on the .gifs being made immediately.

4) The one and only James Adomian is recording in album in Portland at Helium on April 11th. Do not miss this.

5) There is more of a push to get the “r-word”, which will an enormous majority will still always call “retarded”, banned, which must be their way of getting all of comedy to say retarded way more in the next several months.

6) At Gallery 1988 Melrose, the Is This Thing On? 2 (art inspired by comedy) exhibition is now on display.

7) Apparently, Bret Easton Ellis is taking suggestions for a sequel to American Psycho on Twitter and it’s hilarious.

8) The very funny Andy Sanford gives a great explanation as to why there shouldn’t be a “truth vs. clever” debate in comedy.

9) Peter Atencio gave us a look what a hard day on season 2 of Key & Peele is like…

10) Comedian Occupational Hazard #126: You might develop an irregular tendency to tell “positive thinking” people to go fuck themselves.

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Morning Debriefing 3/9/12

1) Improv Everywhere amazingly crashed a TED talk. Please watch without reading the video title.

2) The finale of this season’s Portlandia airs tonight 10PM on IFC, then followed by an extended sneak peek of Comedy Bang Bang the comedy series, which will undoubtedly be made into hundreds of .gifs only minutes after.

3) The Comedy Theory Behind Developing Jokes Battle-Jonas Polsky vs. Myq Kaplan. It’s long, but incredibly fascinating.

4) Mike Lawrence on Conan.

5) We know we’ve asked you to watch a lot of stuff already, but, seriously, watch Bob Odenkirk’s pilot for Adult Swim because, well… did you read the part where we said that it’s “Bob Odenkirk’s pilot for Adult Swim”?

6) Chris Gethard will be at SXSW giving away free, but not fancy, shit.

7) Amy Poehler is joining Adam Scott in divorced-kid-grown-up comedy.

8) Follow NTSF:SD:SUV’s production blog for Season 2 on Adult Swim because their body count is already north of 4.

9) The Black List compiled the list of the most cliched dialogue.

10) @Nick_Offerman is official.

11) We’re behind Will Weldon’s 10 Bills to Watch Currently Being Debated in Congress on Lady Bro more so than anything else in politics right now.

12) In this latest Nerdist post of ours, we made the point (for those commenters out there that don’t think think we have an opinion on anything and instead try to take an objective high ground, you’re probably just offended that we made a point you didn’t agree with) that “edgy” humor has ingrained itself so in the mainstream that it’s no longer edgy. 

13) The giant rock moving to LACMA late tonight is getting more attention than all comedy in the Greater LA Area. Keep in mind, it’s a rock.

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Morning Debriefing 3/8/12

1) Comedy Central just greenlighted 3 series from Andy Daly, Jeff Ross, and Nathan Fielder, respectively. Along with the arrival of the Eric Andre Show, Comedy Bang Bang, Girls, and Veep, 2012 will be quite a year for new comedy on TV.

2) Of the documentaries coming up about comedy, The Bitter Buddha about Eddie Pepitone is one were definitely looking forward to.

3) Last night on late night, Kumail Nanjiani educated the world about heroin on Conan. Tonight, Conan has a stellar episode lined-up with Rob Riggle, Mike Lawrence, and even frequent cameo star in Funny or Die exclusives and huge comedy fan Jon Hamm (TBS 11PM).

4) Funny or Die to launch a digital magazine, The Occasional, available for download on the iPad for those real fancy comedy nerds.  

5) The Nerdist welcomed a new podcast into their fold, The JV Club with Janet Varney. 

6) Lewis Black to have his next special, In God We Rust, on Epix Mar. 17th.

7) It’s always fun when Rob Delaney answers questions on Reddit…

8) Judy Greer’s pilot for ABC just keeps getting more fun as Ken Marino is set to co-star.

9) We’re still doing a ticket giveaway for Anna David’s True Tales of Lust & Love this Saturday if you want to go.

10) Ice Cube’s “Good Day” is probably on the same day that comedians refer to as “…the other day.”

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Morning Debriefing 3/7/12

1) If Key & Peele’s Flicker sketch was made into a movie, we’d feel like it would be a summer blockbuster.

2) Tonight on Conan, meaning schedule your DVRs or wait for the online clips tomorrow morning, both Ed Helms and Kumail Nanjiani will be appearing (TBS 11PM).

3) You can catch part of the South Beach Comedy Festival this Fri. at 12PM as Comedy Central’s streaming one of their shows online with Kevin Biggins, Dan Soder, Renee Gauthier, and more.

4) Moshe Kasher’s Kasher in the Rye got a recommendation and a nod to the title from the Los Angeles Magazine! Don’t forget about his live book release events later this month.

                

5) Check out the line-ups for the third season of John Oliver’s NY Stand-Up Show…

6) John Turturro, Sofia Vergara, and Sharon Stone are joining Woody Allen in Allen’s next comedy where he and Turturro will be gigolos.

7) This week’s 5 Most Intentionally Funny Videos is up at the Nerdist with “Anne, Frankly”, “Miss Wallflower USA”, and more.

8) Don’t know what comedy albums to listen to lately so you just go ahead and get into Sleigh Bells? We’ve got you covered.

9) NBC’s Community met the trailer for Ridley Scott’s upcoming Prometheus.

10) On today’s Puddin’, Eddie Pepitone demonstrates, with the help of Megan Amram, the best way to ask a co-worker out.

11) Developing a joke is an incredibly difficult process to capture and then present to people in a way that’s easy to understand. For instance, very few other jobs let you get it wrong so many times.

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Morning Debriefing 3/6/12

1) Doug Stanhope’s “Before Turning the Gun on Himself” is out today. Get it. 

2) The 2nd Annual Comedy Awards just released their nominations with Bridesmaids, 30 Rock, Modern Family, and Louis CK getting plenty of recognition. Also, the Artist, again?

3) Also in just announced news, the Bridgetown Comedy Festival just released their line-up and, with it, coming closer and closer to a comedy mecca.

4) One of our favorite live shows, Set List: the Improvised Stand-Up Show is touring around the world again.

5) The Throwing Shade podcast with Bryan Safi & Erin Gibson just got welcomed to the Max Fun family!

6) Brown Paper Tickets and The Spit Take have an open spot for a non-profit or community-oriented organization for a free information table at their SXSW comedy show in Austin (8:30PM Wed. Mar 14th at Esther’s Follies). At the table will be Todd Barry, Brendon Walsh, Mike Lawrence, Kristine Levine, DC Pierson and host Nick Turner. If interested in spreading the word about a group/cause can email Julie Seabaugh at julie@brownpapertickets.com.  

7) Rick Shapiro just came out with a book, which, almost unsurprisingly, is titled “Unfiltered”.

8) Yahoo! is joining in the branded web comedy league. Based off the Hunger Games parody yesterday, they might have some good stuff coming down the line.

9) Gallery 1988 is going for Round 2 of “Is This Thing On?” featuring art inspired by funny people.

10) The International TV Festival is looking for comedy web series submissions…

11) The idea that a bar fight would even almost arise at an open mic over a guy being obviously uncomfortable with cross dressing is ludicrous, especially when the cross dresser is our good friend and funny comedian, Rye Silverman. 

12) “What Happens in Echo Park, Stays Recorded on a Podcast” Can we make this a slogan?

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Morning Debriefing 3/5/12

1) Just as you had hoped, THERE ARE lost episodes of Henry Phillips’ Henry’s Kitchen… 

2) Chris Hardwick made the official launch announcement for the Nerdist Channel on YouTube as a zombie.

3) “The Hungry Games” is our favorite Hunger Games parody thus far and we haven’t even read any of the books (We’re not a “popular literature bureau”, OK?). 

4) Whether remembering what it was like starting in out stand-up or wondering what it entails, read Kevin Hawkins account of exactly that and feel better about doing comedy/getting into it.

5) Jason Segel may not be a part of the next Muppets movie at all, but not, apparently, for any “creative differences”.

6) Don Rickles has an app of his own, even though, at some point, he’s probably joked about how he’s still wondering what the hell this thing is.

7) Hannibal Buress really did just walked on stage, without any permission, with a whole bunch of rappers and their entourages and got away with it, not to mention live-tweeting it.

8) Nick Ciarelli finally discovered the conversation between John Wilkes Booth and his horse after shooting Lincoln. Yes, this is “real”.

9) We’re still doing our ticket giveaway to Anna David’s True Tales of Lust and Love if you want to tell us how lonely you’re feeling…

10) On today’s Puddin’, Eddie Pepitone challenges Megan Amram in “letter to the editor” writing.

11) This whole week a giant rock will be traveling through LA county to be placed as a “sculpture” at LACMA at 8 MPH, which is at least a million times faster than anyone getting comparable recognition in comedy.

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Morning Debriefing 3/4/12

1) Ben Stiller’s Red Hour to launch web series “Burning Love” with Insurge Pictures on Yahoo’s upcoming comedy channel featuring Ken Marino, Malin Akerman, Kristen Bell, Michael Ian Black, Ken Jeong, Adam Scott, and more.

2) The cast of Community along with creator Dan Harmon chatted about their return in less than two weeks at Paleyfest…

3) Don’t miss Kelly Carlin’s Sirius XM show today with guest Eddie Izzard 4PM PST, Ch. 99 (You have Sirius XM, right?)

4) The Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin, TX has, by the looks of it, more than a healthy line-up coming up and Sean Patton, one of our favorites, will undoubtedly get some of his most hilarious friends like Kyle Kinane to come to New Orleans, LA this week.

5) One of our favorite Adult Swim shows from last year, NTSF:SD:SUV, starts shooting this week!

6) Not only will this week’s Holy Fuck! (the downtown LA Comedy show, not the Electronica group) have Andy Kindler, TJ Miller, Hannibal Buress, and more, they will also have T-shirts for $10 that we strongly suggest you pick up

7) Joining TJ Miller, Brian Posehn, Kumail Nanjiani, and more in a R-rated stop motion picture about saving someone from accidentally going to hell will be Mila Kunis, who plays a “half-sy” demon. Hopefully, comedies set in hell will now have a better film for itself than Little Nicky.

8) Wax Mitch Hedberg nostalgia with woodburnings of his jokes…

9) We all need to get a Kickstarter for Will Weldon’t Most Inspirational Sports Movie of All Time because it sounds awesome (even if it ends up spiting him because he was being really fucking sarcastic).

10) If you watch as much comedy as I do, you’ll probably have this thought, “If they would have said ‘bottom bitch’ instead of ‘good friends’ that would have got such a big laugh.”

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Morning Debriefing 3/3/12

1) Wanna a teaser of who’s performing at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland? (Just pretended like you asked the question if you’re the small percentage that didn’t think that) Well, here you go. More names to be announced on Mon.

2) In Will Ferrell news, there might be a Step Brothers 2…

3) You do know that Kumail Nanjiani and Mike Lawrence will be performing on Conan next week, right?

4) Dana Gould sat down with LA Weekly and chatted about how advertises The Dana Gould Hour by yelling out of his car on Sunset Blvd. and more.

5) Who do you want to see at the Riot LA Comedy Festival? They’re taking suggestions. Off the top of our heads, we’d like to see Emo Phillips, Steven Wright, and Conan O’Brien.

6) Aziz Ansari got a shout out presidential style.

7) MAN OH MAN, it’s no surprise that Roger Ebert hates Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie.

8) Watch “Hannibal Buress vs. Jon Dore in HORSE” vs. “Katie Crown as a Random Pregnant Lady”.

9) Eddie Pepitone yelling is pretty hilarious even if it’s about IMBD. 

10) I’d thought that people would have gotten over trying to curb what comedians say, but I often forget that stupid often begets stupid.

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Morning Debriefing 3/2/12

1) Nick Lowe’s newest music video has so many comedy folks in it (Marc Maron, Tim Heidecker, Maria Thayer, Andres DuBouchet, Brian Stack, and more) that you almost forget the song.

2) Jim Henson Co. enlisted by the BBC for a chat show? Yes.

3) Last night on late night, Megan Mullally revealed how Nick Offerman throws a surprise birthday party on Conan and Ted Alexandro did a tight 5 min. on Letterman.

4) One of our favorite web series, Anne, Frankly, is back! (Yes, it’s the anachronistic vlog of Anne Frank starring Jamie Lee)

5) Steve Heisler gave us all a reasonable warning of how we’re nearing comedy podcast over saturation for the AV Club.

6) Sara Schaefer and Nikki Glaser get written up in the NY Times Magazine!

7) Just in case you haven’t heard Dave Foley’s WTF podcast episode, here he is on CNN Comedy explaining why he has to do comedy non-stop.

8) Win tickets to Anna David’s True Tales of Lust and Love by telling us if you’re lonelier than crying in public.

9) If only we all could eat bananas like Jesse Case does…

10) You know that you can truly appreciate comedy when you know exactly where the joke is going and still laugh, even if you’re laughing alone.

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Morning Debriefing 3/1/12

1) Recently on late night, Matt Knudsen did his thing on Conan, Marc Maron told a story about handling an stalker/internet troll on Attack of the Show, and Joan Rivers was her hilarious self on Kimmel especially when talking about her aspirations for her grandson. Tonight, Ted Alexandro will be on The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS 11:35PM) Rob Riggle on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (NBC 12:35AM), and Megan Mullally on Conan (TBS 11PM)

2) There will be “an extended sneak peek” of Comedy Bang Bang on IFC after the Portlandia finale on Mar. 9th. Get your live-tweeting parties together.

3) Please don’t stalk comedian Esther Povitsky like this guy. We think she’s funny and would like to have her around.

4) In new comedy movie trailer news, Jack Black gets Drowning Mona’d with Bernie and Johnny Pemberton gets brought in by the Neighborhood Watch of Jonah Hill, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, and more.

5) We don’t know how far we’re reaching here, but those outside of LA, specifically in Portland and Korea (you’re not reading that wrong), respectively, should see two of our favorites Sean Patton this Friday Mar. 2nd at the Hollywood Theatre recording for a “special project” 9PM  and James Adomian bring his “populist satire” to Seoul March 2nd and 3rd 10PM.

6) Please watch the most recent Miss Wallflower USA Contest. It’s hilarious and no other set up is needed.

7) We’re excited for the upcoming Season 2 of Key & Peele, even if it’s already being called offensive comedy by someone who could be best described as “antiquated”.

8) In new things/things being developed news, the Vacation film franchise is getting rebooted possibly with Ed Helms, there will be a new Muppets movie without the writing talents of Jason Segel, and Jesse Thorn has a new pop quiz show where laws do not apply, International Waters, with Paul Scheer, Janet Varney, and more.

9) In comedy interviews worth your time news, Joe Berkowitz breaks down the machine known as Tim and Eric for Fast Company better than anyone thus far and the very funny Jamie Lee chatted with and got written-up by the Greenpoint Gazette.

10) We got, count’em, two of our essays up on the Nerdist yesterday: Why and How You Shouldn’t Be Wasting Your Time Getting Mad at SNL and The Psyche Behind Making Dead Celebrity Jokes.

11) Apparently, a researcher in a Japan went to an American open mic, at least that’s what I think, and, as a result, developed a “shut up gun”.

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Morning Debriefing 2/29/12

1) Comedy Central is catching on to the “book game” by starting their own imprint.

2) Let us not forget that Lenny Bruce paved the way for a lot of comedians to do what they do today with the new documentary Looking for Lenny (even though that “street” seems to be still be “taped off” to this day).

3) Recently on late night, get some great dick jokes from Eric Idle on Ferguson and Ken Marino on Conan, then Don Cheadle, as you’ve never seen him, seriously, being absolutely ridiculous on Fallon.  Tonight on late night, Tom Lennon will stop by the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (CBS 12:35AM), Ed Helms on Jimmy Kimmel Live (ABC 12AM), the wonderful Matt Knudsen doing a set on Conan (TBS 11PM), and none other than William Shatner will be on the Colbert Report (Comedy Central 11:30PM).

4) Adult Swim is possibly getting more absurd with developing a new show from ATHF Creator and coming out with a show where Odd Future does what they want.

5) Garfunkel and Oates gets our vote for Best Comedic Musical Performance at an Awards Show with their song at the Independent Spirit Awards. (that’d be an Emmy category, right?)

6) For those of you that thought that John Oliver’s NY Stand-Up Show was cancelled (and some people did) because you hadn’t seen on the air in awhile and all the other stand-up shows coming on Comedy Central, it’s absolutely not.

7) Those outside of LA and NY are in luck, comedy wise, as Bill Burr, Nikki Glaser, and Nato Green are all taping albums/specials very soon.

8) Congratulations to the Creek and Cave on getting their Kickstarter funded! There’s still time to donate if you’re feeling extra generous, by the way.

9) Our picks for the 5 Most Intentional Funny Videos this week for the Nerdist span all the way from Kenny Powers to James Urbaniak. Check it out.

10) You can help some Yanks win some comedy awards across the pond by voting for Doug Stanhope and Set List…

11) Do not start a live comedy show in any of these places.

12) On this episode of King Temp, Nick Turner can’t take a compliment, even a small one. 

13) Comedy is probably the only art form where unapologetic stupidity can be appreciated as brilliance.

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