Jena Friedman absolutely pulls no punches in this stand-up set from last night’s Conan even though she gives the veil of being of quiet concern the whole time. It’s subtly vicious, which is great specialty of Jena’s.
She even urges us all to take Nazis down a few notches because that’s a thing that we all have to do again.
Please look, listen, and laugh heartily here.
Accomplished and darkly hilarious multi-hyphenate Jena Friedman is getting to do a “human interest” comedy special at and Eric Andre returns to Adult Swim next month.
We hope that you’d know Jena from her great last special/album “American C*nt” or her plethora of work that includes Letterman, The Daily Show, and so much more. If you do, you’d probably know that this special will very likely be as sharp and biting as anything satirical on television.
Odds are that you’ve seen Eric Andre (or at least a .GIF of him) destroying one of his many desks on The Eric Andre Show. Essentially, Eric will do what he’s been doing in the U.S. on his show, but in Paris, France
So, don’t miss them.
This seems like a great balance between letting chaos reign millennial style with Derrick Beckles and Eric Andre leaning into their particular brand of comedy madness and Jena Friedman getting another special to say exactly what the f she wants to say.
We’re excited to see both, even though they’ll probably be on either ends of some sort of spectrum.
Chicago’s 26th Annual Festival, put together by the minds behind The Onion, The AV Club, Clickhole, and TruTV, will be in its 4th year at the end of May/beginning of June and has a pretty fantastic line-up that includes a sneak peek of Nathan For You, Patton Oswalt, 35mm screening of Idiocracy with Mike Judge, Aparna Nancherla, and more.
Individual tickets are on sale now or, if you’d prefer, you can buy a festival pass for $310 here.
Jena Friedman Is Set to Write and Direct Her First Feature “Serial Dater”
Comedy multi-hyphenate Jena Friedman is both a crucial voice in comedy and in today’s cultural landscape. Through her stand-up, work on The Daily Show, and way more, Jena has carved out a great niche for her dark, outspoken comedy.
Now, she’s on to making her first feature length film as a writer-director with a stellar cast of Imogen Poots and Timothy Simons. Called Serial Dater, the film will focus on a forensic pathologist who suspects she might be dating a serial killer.
By the way, Jena’s excellent web series that she wrote and directed, Ted and Gracie, is a great quasi-preview of what might come of this project.
Now, American C*nt is available as an album and you can just buy and listen to it over and over without subscribing to anything. You can (and very much should) get it off of iTunes here.
Last year, Jena Friedman recorded and released an amazing hour special on Seeso entitled American C*nt where she expertly dove into gender inequality in a darkly comedic and clever way.
She did a record it in a much more hopeful time where the idea of Trump becoming President was far from the reality it is now, but this hour from Jena is still as great and relevant now that the previously unimaginable has happened.
Jena Friedman’s American C*nt Comes Out as an Album on Inauguration Day
Previously only available as a special on Seeso, Jena Friedman’s great hour “American C*nt” will be available as an album on the day Trump gets inaugurated.
After the many important things that you should be doing on that day, please do get this album so you can enjoy Jena Friedman’s whip smart comedy as well as revisit a more hopeful time.
In case you forgot when Inauguration Day is, look for the album version of American C*nt on January 20th.
So much crazy stuff has happened this election just in the past month that it seems crazy that the rest of it even happened.
You probably even forgot that Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler starred in a faux documentary where they went along the election campaign trail as two “undecideds” and attempted to see what each campaign was about as well as prank the likes of Jeb Bush, Trump, Clinton, Rubio, Ben Carson, etc. Aasif Mandvi and Jena Friedman from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart are pushing them along the whole way in this crazy journey captured in Undecided: The Movie.
Along with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog’s election coverage, you might feel slightly less on edge leading up to November 8th with this doc. It’s available to stream now on Netflix.
Just to be clear, it’s a stand-up special that you should definitely go watch and nothing else.
Jena’s first comedy special has just started streaming at Seeso. If you need a palate cleanser from the words of a “nasty man”, this would be the perfect thing to watch right now.
This hour from the razor sharp Jena Friedman has toured the globe and Seeso has sagaciously made this into their latest comedy special.
Here’s a trailer for the wonderfully titled American C*nt.
Look for it to start streaming on Seeso next week on Thursday, October 20th.
For this week, Seeso’s new release is an absurd debate series hosted by none other than Michael Ian Black called Debate Wars.
Comedians are pitted against each other in, you guessed it, a debate of such random, but oft-discussed topics like “cake vs. pie”
You can see Jena Friedman defend cake beautifully here.
After that, stream whole episodes of Debate Wars now over at Seeso.
For an entire three month stretch, Seeso has got a really solid line-up of comedy specials and showcases set to stream. It’s packed so tightly over consecutive weeks that they’ve decided to call it their Stand-up Streaming Fest.
This line-up lincludes:
-Jena Friedman’s American C*nt-Oct. 20th
-The Guest List (Seeso’s stacked comedy showcase series)-Oct. 20th, Nov. 3rd, Dec. 8th
-Janeane Garofalo’s If I May-Oct. 27th
-Schtick or Treat: Halloween Stand-Up Special-Oct. 27th
-Mo Mandel’s Negative Reinforcement-Nov. 3rd
-Dan Levy’s Lion-Nov. 17th
-Turnt Up with Eliza Skinner-Nov. 17th
-McSweeney’s Internet Tendency-Nov. 24th
-Joe Matarese’s Medicated-Dec. 1st
-Lachlan Patterson’s Live at Venice Beach-Dec. 1st
-Funny as Hell with Jon Dore-Dec. 15th
-Nick Thune stand-up special-Dec. 22nd
-Ian Harvie stand-up special-Dec. 29th
-Laurie Kilmartin’s 45 Jokes About My Dead Dad-Dec. 29th
-Brian Posehn stand-up special-Jan. 2nd.
So, it’s pretty clear to us that you should get Seeso if you haven’t already.
(via Deadline)
TruTV really is better off as a comedy network.
Comedians Hari Kondabolu, Jon Glaser, Amanda Seales, Jena Friedman, Melissa Hunter, Andrea Savage, and more have series, pilots, and/or specials coming up at TruTV, which gives us a better and better feeling about the networks instincts.
Specifically:
SERIES/SPECIALS
-Seales does a countdown pop culture show with Greatest Ever.
-an Impractical Jokers Live Event Special
-Glaser reviews gear to the point of a dangerous obsession on Jon Glaser Loves Gear.
–Abbi Crutchfield and Matthew Latkiewicz give you life skills that you don’t normally get anywhere with Lifescaping.
–90-minute special from Kondabolu examining the far-reaching negative effects of Apu from The Simpsons.
PILOTS/PROJECTS
-semi-autobiographical comedy from Andrea Savage
-lawyer-fallen-from-grace comedy project from Melissa Hunter
-satirical news/pop culture pilot from Hari Kondabolu
-satifical news project from Jena Friedman
-tech review pilot with Kevin Pereira
-hidden camera pranks series from UK comedian Olivia Lee
Do not miss the whip-smart Jena Friedman and the great show that she made a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with, American C*nt.
It’s happening next week, Friday, May 13th at 8:30PM at Largo at the Coronet Theatre with Megan Neuringer opening. Tickets are $30 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events along with corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
That free month of beta Seeso is still going by the way.
Seeso’s has a new batch of their original series, which include animated lobsters finding their way in the modern world, a modern take on the dating game from Dave Ahdoot and Ethan Fixell, and comics like Jena Friedman and Stephen Merchant riffing at a diner in the late, late night/early, early morning.
Get into Gentlemen Lobsters, Dave & Ethan: Lovemakers, Before the Morning After over at Seeso for free while you still can.
(via Deadline)
Seeso is really making up for all that lost time on NBC’s comedy slate over the last couple of years.
Just in its beta stage right now, you already know that Seeso has a lot to offer even though they’re just getting started.
Now, they’ve gotten an official launch date: Thurs. Jan. 7th.
In addition to their vast array of offerings, they’ll adding a bunch of original content including a show called Before the Morning After where comics like Greg Proops, Jena Friedman, and Alex Edelman will riff at a diner, the long awaited hour stand-up special from Rory Scovel, Matt Besser breaking ridiculous records on Besser Breaks the Record, live variety and stand-up shows The UCB Show and Live From The Barrel House, an animated comedy The Cyanide & Happiness Show, an Australian musical comedy series with puppets, Sammy J & Randy in Ricketts Lane, and a modern dating game show, Dave & Ethan: Lovemakers.
With other shows from Jonah Ray, Cameron Esposito & Rhea Butcher, Dan Harmon, Thomas Lennon/Robert Ben Garant/Kulap Vilaysack, and more also on the way, Seeso is making the $3.99/month subscription fee sound worth it.
If you think about it, Jena Friedman should have her own show where she does investigative reports.
Dan Perino was tired of the “singles scene” in New York and thus started posting flyers around the city claiming that he is “Looking For a Girlfriend”. These flyers started popping in so many places that Perino gained media attention from doing this.
Daily Show producer and great comedian Jena Friedman wanted to see how Perino’s campaign for a girlfriend is going and recently interviewed him.
Turns out that Dan came off much better in his flyers than their frank conversation. It was definitely a good call that Jena had an AIDS test on hand during their conversation.
Watch the whole interview here.