(via Deadline)
Jermaine is also going to be co-executive producer.
CBS is making good on their development deal with Jermaine Fowler and ordering a multi-cam sitcom pilot where he starts working at a donut shop in a neighborhood being gentrified.
We’re going to keep our fingers crossed as long as we can that this goes to series just so we can see Fowler on TV on a regular basis.
9PM on Showtime.
This is just a friendly reminder of what you should be watching tonight. If you’re still on the fence, just watch Jermaine Fowler’s set on Corden from this week, then we’re sure you’ll be on board for his very first hour stand-up special, Give’em Hell Kid on Showtime.
We’re pretty sure the world is in for a treat when Jermaine Fowler’s Showtime special Give’em Hell Kid premieres on Friday.
Why do we say that?
Well, just watch his set from last night’s Late Late Show with James Corden.
We’re pretty sure Jermaine Fowler is going to make a very big and very, very good impression with his first hour special, Give’em Hell Kid, premiering on Showtime on Dec. 11th.
This latest preview clip should provide more evidence of this claim.
Following their two-part SXSW Comedy special, Showtime has got another comedy special that you should be on the look out for from Jermaine Fowler.
Give’em Hell Kid will be Jermaine’s first hour special and will also feature one-on-one interviews from those closest to Jermaine, which should be a whole bunch of fun considering how much Jermaine talks about his family in his act.
Here’s a teaser. After that, look for its premiere on Fri. Dec. 11th at 9PM on Showtime.
The Treasure Island Music Festival in San Francisco will be the latest big time music and arts festival to add a comedy tent to its line-up. On Oct. 17th and 18th, Funny or Die will host a comedy tent called The Blah Blah Blah featuring performances by:
Tim Heidecker
Jerrod Carmichael
Jonah Ray
Chris Gethard
Jon Dore
With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus
Throwing Shade with Erin Gibson & Bryan Safi
Hey™: An Afternoon with Kate Berlant and John Early
Guy Braunum Presents: Talk Show: The Game Show
Michelle Wolf
Max Silvestri
Barry Rothbart
Jermaine Fowler
That’s a real good line-up and you shouldn’t miss it if you can get to San Francisco that weekend. Oh, Chvrches, Run the Jewels, and Father John Misty will be there as well just in case you needed the extra encouragement. What’s really amazing is that Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy Festival will be finishing its run at the same time in Austin, TX.
Get your tickets/passes here.
(via Deadline)
If you haven’t committed the name Jermaine Fowler to memory yet, you’ll end up doing that soon with what he has in the works.
Not that it’s a surprise to us, but Jermaine Fowler has got a lot of great irons in great fires.
An hour comedy special, Jermaine Fowler: Give ‘Em Hell Kid, that mixes stand-up and interviews with family and friends is coming to Showtime in mid December. On top of that, Jermaine is developing a semi-autobiographical multi-cam sitcom following his very young parents trying to raise him and the rest of his family.
In case you haven’t noticed, another era of shows based on the lives of comedians is riding high right now.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
The pilot season is ramping up and networks are really trying to figure out their new game plan with comedy, especially after last season’s cancellation bloodbath.
Having them make it out of development, we think ABC is doing well to move forward with the semi-autobiographical sitcoms based on the lives of Fortune Feimster and Jermaine Fowler. Respectively, they’re called Family Fortune and Delores and Jermaine.
They’ll be two in a crowded field of several pilots that are now in contention at ABC. Both pilots are multi-camera projects and we can only hope that they steer clear of what happened to Mulaney.
Though he had already taped a comedy special that will be coming out in the not so distant future, Jermaine Fowler, somehow, still had yet to perform stand-up on a late night talk show.
Luckily, that changed last night when he got to perform on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and got to tell the world of how his brother got put in Special Ed by mistake.
Watch it here (starting around 35:08) or at CBS.com (around 35:40).
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
In this latest round of networks getting ready for pilot season, ABC has picked up a great project in having the very funny Jermaine Fowler develop a family comedy based on his life, which much of his stand-up is based on.
More specifically, the series would follow a college drop out that moves in with his grandmother and a former DC cop. With this premise in mind, we think this could work or as a multi-cam or single camera sitcom. Hopefully, it will get a pilot order and we’ll get to see which one it will end up being.