After a thoroughly entertaining Kickstarter campaign, Ted Alexandro and Hollis James’ web series Teachers Lounge is finally here.
There’s a reason students are never allowed in said Teachers Lounge, as you’ll find, since adults are still as awkward as kids. Watch the first episode with Jim Gaffigan.
Funny or Die’s Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival Announces Their 2014 Line-Up
Throughout the country, you may get to see the likes of Louis C.K., Aziz Ansari, Amy Schumer, Bill Burr, Jim Gaffigan, Sarah Silverman, Jeff Ross, Marc Maron, Chris Hardwick, Hannibal Buress, Demetri Martin, and more thanks to Funny or Die’s gigantic festival tour known as Oddball. Looking at that line-up, we’d say Oddball is gong to have another epic round.
So far there will be 21 shows across this great nation and tickets will go on sale this Saturday.
Scott Moran, the force behind Modern Comedian, has made a new web series where he captures 4 to 5 minutes of a comedian in front of a camera sans audio. They just inhabit the frame as they choose, much like you would see them in perhaps an animated portrait in a gallery exhibit at a museum.
So far, he’s gotten comedian screen tests of Hannibal Buress, Rory Scovel, Jim Gaffigan, Kristen Schaal, Nick Turner, Colin Quinn, Kurt Braunohler, Jared Logan, Shock G, and Chris Distefano.
If you can afford it, you definitely should have these all playing on separate screens in a gallery on a loop.
If you’re in a generous mood and/or want to support really funny people in being really funny, Ted Alexandro has a Kickstarter you can donate to in order to support the Teachers Lounge web series from Hollis James and himself.
The series follows Alexandro as a music teacher (an occupation Ted really had) and a janitor hanging out in the teachers lounge then dealing with some faculty member. Already, he’s shot episodes with Jim Gaffigan, Lewis Black, Janeane Garofalo, Judy Gold, Judah Friedlander, Jim Norton, Dave Attell, Rachel Feinstein, Michael Che, Todd Barry and musician Ted Leo.
He wants to shoot more episodes and put up one great Kickstarter video to further entice you to donate, which you should, to his $50,000 goal with less than a month to go.
It shouldn’t surprise any of you, but Will Ferrell, Bill Hader, Key & Peele, Maria Bamford, Amy Poehler, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Jim Gaffigan, Parks and Recreation, This Is The End, Modern Family, and Louis C.K. all went home with last night’s American Comedy Awards.
You can watch the whole special here.
Jim Gaffigan’s Obsessed Charting on iTunes Overall
When it comes to comedy albums, rare is the occasion that one sells so well that it can compete with music albums. Of course, Jim Gaffigan is one such exceptional comedian with a fantastic new special/album that is currently charting on the overall iTunes charts as far as #4.
Having heard and seen how great Obsessed really is, we’re not surprised. Get your copy at iTunes (album/special) and have it shoot up the charts even more.
Jim Gaffigan’s brand new comedy special Obsessed is premiering tonight, 10PM on Comedy Central. Following that, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver will have its series premiere on HBO at 11PM.
If there was a reason to skip watching Mad Men live, besides the fact that you could record it on your DVR, is that you can catch one hell of a block of comedy tonight. You can even top that if you record Silicon Valley and Veep as well.
This week, Jim Gaffigan chatted with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show and gave a pretty great preview of his fantastic (we’ve been playing the our press copy on repeat since we got it) new hour special Obsessed, premiering this Sun. on Comedy Central at 10PM. Really, Gaffigan simply did a nice chunk of his act in conversation, which left Fallon slapping his desk laughing throughout the whole thing pretty much.
Memorize this:
–Jim Gaffigan’s brand new comedy special Obsessed will be airing on Comedy Central on Apr. 27th.
-The full, uncut album is now on pre-order on iTunes and Amazon.
-The CD/DVD as well as the download for the special for $5 will come on Apr. 29th.
Commit that to memory and then enjoy this preview of Obsessed because Gaffigan is the best and can still with jokes about food.
Michael Ian Black and Ashley Williams Cast in ‘Gaffigan’
Jim Gaffigan’s CBS comedy project continues to fill out its cast now with the additions of Michael Ian Black and Ashley Williams (How I Met Your Mother).
This project need to make it to TV ASAP as we can already imagine some sort of scene where Black and Gaffigan awkwardly have a stare down.
CBS Jim Gaffigan Pilot to Have Zimbabwe Catholic Priest Character
Since CBS has revived Jim Gaffigan’s pilot, there’s been some retooling and recasting. This it turns out that Gaffigan’s show will have a Zimbabwean priest, which we’re absolutely sure will add another layer to any food jokes Jim makes.
Honestly, Jim Gaffigan should have a show on The Food Network or The Travel Channel for the countless hours of hysterical jokes he has had on food around the world.
Watch him showcase more great material on food on Conan last night here and here.
Jason Nash’s web series for GQ, How To Be a Man, has been pretty great. We don’t know how much actually valuable manly advice we’re getting from it, but it’s worth a damn good laugh.
Watch the latest episode with none other than Jim Gaffigan.
Kevin Pollak Getting Into the Comedy Documentary Game
Kevin Pollak (who has his own podcast and has done a comedy special) is indeed going forward with a documentary about comedy, specifically digging at the process/minds of comedians/comedic actors/etc. like Jim Gaffigan or Christopher Guest or Lisa Kudrow.
If the growth in interest of how comedy works via documentaries exploring comedy doesn’t confirm a current boom in comedy, then we honestly don’t know what will.
Often is the case that certain comedians/actors can steal a movie through their oddball supporting character that is just more wonderfully bizarre than everyone else in the film or are the main source of levity in otherwise tense film.
That’s why you should watch out for Jim Gaffigan just being cast in Lorne Michaels’ Staten Island Summer and Mike Birbiglia in The Fault in Our Stars. We’re sure that they will be one of the most quotable parts of either of those films.
Wits, the true blue variety show taped, broadcast, etc. from the Fitzgerald Theater in Minnesota just announced the line-up for their series of shows coming this fall and it almost reads like a festival line-up.
In addition to have great musical acts such as Aimee Mann, Ted Leo, Yo La Tengo, and Busdriver, Paul F. Tompkins, Tim Heidecker, Dave Hill, Jim Gaffigan, Maria Bamford, David Cross, Ellie Kemper, and more are set to be part of various Wits episodes often in pretty great mini radioplays.
Luckily, they do tape much of the show and put it on YouTube like this clip of Maria Bamford and Bill Corbett & Kevin Murphy from Rifftrax spin on the Wizard of Oz.
Jim Gaffigan Comedy Pilot at CBS Being Redeveloped
We thought it would be kind of impossible that a pilot by Jim Gaffigan would just not get picked up and never be heard of again. Luckily, we were right and CBS hasn’t let it go to another network.
Here’s to hoping we see Gaffigan in a starring role on network television.
Jim Gaffigan to Write a Second Book
We’re excited that Jim is following up Dad Is Fat with another book. Not that we wouldn’t read it, but we hope that it’s something slightly different than something like “Dad Is Fatter".
Jim Gaffigan stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Friday to promote his book Dad Is Fat and just rattled off another whole great bit about food to add to his collection of great food material. So long as it’s funny, you can continue joke about a topic even if you’ve pretty much done hours on it.
While on Conan last night promoting Dad Is Fat, Jim Gaffigan got a weird fan letter from a fan and responded under the impression that the fan was some sort of stalker, whether it actually seemed that way or not.
Watch here. (Also, wouldn’t it be crazy if this story played out like Judd Apatow getting a letter from Steve Martin when he was a kid?)
Not that a master of observation like Jim Gaffigan needed a well to tap comedic material from, but, as you’ve seen recently and this interview with Letterman, Jim talking about his 5 kids is pretty great.
Jim Gaffigan’s latest work, a book lovingly entitled “Dad Is Fat” just hit bookshelves today, which you should all pick up no matter if you have kids, plan on having kids, or are going it solo right now. If you have any doubts about it (you shouldn’t-it’s one of the funniest people working today Jim Gaffigan), watch his interviews for Scott Moran’s Modern Comedian and YouTube Official Comedy’s One Question w/Sean Donnelly to get a audio-visual preview of what you’ll read and undoubtedly enjoy.
Scott Moran’s brilliant mini-doc series Modern Comedian about the lives of comedians today is finally coming back for a third season. This time around, he’ll get to follow the likes of Jim Gaffigan and many more.
Watch this trailer which gives you highlights of last season and clips from this upcoming season.
Moshe Kasher, Parker Posey, Mira Sorvino, Brent Morin Latest To Be Cast in Pilots
Moshe is joining Rob Corddry at Spy, Parker Posey is starring along side the great JK Simmons, Mira Sorvino is in Jim Gaffigan’s pilot, and Brent Morin is starring in an untitled pilot.
This is all good news in case you were wondering. Hopefully, all these shows get picked up. Click the link for Hollywood Reporter’s comprehensive guide to this season’s pilots.
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