Two best friends, who are successful comedians that started one of the best stand-up shows in the country that got made into a TV series in its second season, should be pretty good at roasting each other, right?
That’s “exactly” what happened when The Meltdown hosts Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani roasted each other on stage.
Watch it here, then be sure to catch the latest episode of The Meltdown, tonight at 12:30AM.
Brett Gelman got to finally bring his Gelmania (w/Cyrus Ghahremani) experience to this season of The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail as well as the rest of the world.
Watch why you should absolutely keep the laughter and applause infinitely going for him in his Meltdown set here.
Simply put, Brent Weinbach is one of the most original, innovative, and hilarious comedians around.
You don’t have to take our word for it.
Just watch his full set from The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.
For the record, we, and most in attendance, all like the jacket.
As they’re in their second season, Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani upgraded their threads. Specifically, Kumail got a fancy mixed media jacket that he looks great in.
However, just looking good in a nice, new jacket isn’t enough for Kumail to feel comfortable. Watch it here.
Tune whatever TV you’re watching to Comedy Central at 12:30AM tonight to catch the premiere of season 2 of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail. There’s lots of fun that will be had in this first episode with Hampton Yount, Cameron Esposito, Abbi Jacobson/Ilana Glazer and Andy Daly.
Also, you can catch Kumail on Conan, probably talking about the premiere too at 11PM on TBS.
This season of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail seems like it really caught the spirit of the weekly live show. They accomplished that by getting things like Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer from Broad City taking Jonah and Kumail’s clothes and pretending to be them on stage.
Way more stuff like this is in store for this season. So, be sure to catch the premiere tomorrow night at 12:30AM on Comedy Central.
We went to as many of the tapings for season 2 of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail and we have to say you’re in for lots of treats, many of which involve actual food.
Just watch this behind-the-scenes/inside look/interview with Jonah Ray, Kumail Nanjiani, and producer Emily Gordon to get a sense of the fun that’s in store for all of you.
Also, here’s everyone that’s going to be on this season of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail:
Hampton Yount
Matt Braunger
Adam Pally
Gil Ozeri
Sean Patton
Beth Stelling
Natasha Leggero
Cameron Esposito
Broad City (Abbi Jacobson & Ilana Glazer)
Fred Armisen
Andy Daly
Claudia O’Doherty
Andrew Santino
Joe Mande
John Early
Al Madrigal
Ron Funches
Aparna Nancherla
Hannibal Buress
Kate Berlant
Paul Scheer
Lauren Lapkus
Nick Thune
John Mulaney
Brent Weinbach
Thomas Middleditch
Jak Knight
Bridget Everett
Kurt Braunohler
Brett Gelman
Chelsea Peretti
By now, we have a feeling that you’re going to be into all of this.
Tune in Tues. night, Jun. 30th, 12:30AM on Comedy Central for the premiere.
It’s Father’s Day and while that’s a celebration of many dads and what they’ve done for their children, for others, it’s less like that.
So, on that note, Happy Father’s Day!
Yesterday, Jenny Lewis and Mikal Cronin released their music videos for “She’s Not Me” and “Say”, respectively, that offer more evidence that music videos are on their way back and are more than just bands in different clothes playing in front of different back drops.
In Lewis’ She’s Not Me, Vanessa Bayer, Zosia Mamet, Fred Armisen, and more semi-recreate Jenny’s past as a former child actress.
Mikal Cronin enlists the help of Kurt Braunohler, Jonah Ray, Allan McLeod, Nick Thune, and Nelson Franklin to be in his video for Say, though he may have spoke too soon (pun absolutely intended).
Along with JASH’s 5K music video series and any music video Tom Scharpling directs, maybe we don’t need MTV to play music videos ever again.
Even though times are pretty nice in Colorado as recreational weed is legal, August is going to be an especially great time to be in Denver.
The annual High Plains Comedy Festival is coming soon, specifically Aug. 20th-22nd. They just announced the first portion of their line-up, which is indeed stacked.
Performing at High Plains this year will be: Anthony Jeselnik, Kurt Braunohler, Jonah Ray, Beth Stelling, Kate Berlant, Matt Braunger, Guy Branum, Sean Patton, Emily Heller, John Early, Jay Larson, and, of course, The Grawlix’s Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl, and Ben Roy.
It’s a lot of the comedy spoils that we get to enjoy here in LA and that’s only the start as there are way more comics that will be coming to High Plains. You absolutely shouldn’t miss out on seeing them if you’re at that higher altitude.
Get passes right now right here.
This really happened this weekend at Baby Talk @ Nerdmelt Showroom.
At the wonderful Nerdmelt Showroom, home to The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail. Jensen Karp and Dan Levy put on a show called Baby Talk where they interview comedians about their childhood and having children, then have an actual child talk to them as well as show off a talent.
This past weekend, the show had The Meltdown’s Jonah Ray as well as 1st grade child actor/break dancer Blayne Smith face off in a dance battle.
Watch Jonah take his turn dancing, which should make up for any leftover sluggishness from daylight savings time.
It’s the moment that so many of you have been waiting for. The 2nd season of The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail is getting under way and will be shooting near the end of March and going through April. Of course, the line-up has yet to be announced and, if it was anything like their first season, they’ll try to keep it as under wraps as they can.
Specifically, there will be tapings on Mar. 25th, 27th, Apr. 1st, and 4th. Unfortunately, all the tickets for all those tapings have been reserved, but, fret not, as there will be a waitlist for 8 shows. Make sure to follow @meltdown_show for more updates in that regard.
The imprint label of Literally Figurative Records launched by Jonah Ray with AST Records is on its way forward with its first taping and it should be a doozy.
Not only is this first taping going to be the announced series of 7", but it will be recorded live at one of the most popular living rooms in the LA comedy scene, The Comedy Living Room.
Tues. Nov. 11th, Sean O Connor, Paige Weldon, Kyle Clark, Alex Hooper, Rhea Butcher, Matt Mira, and Jim Hamilton will get to lay their jokes down on vinyl and you can catch this moment in comedy history and what promises to be an overall great night of comedy for free.
Just make sure you RSVP to Literally Figurative Galaxy of Stars; A Live Album Recording.
From Nov. 7th-9th, Austin is hosting yet another festival with an amazing line-up of music and comedy, Fun Fun Fun Fest.
This year, Fred Armisen, Jonah Ray, Thomas Middleditch, Kumail Nanjiani, Neil Hamburger, Jon Daly, Rachel Bloom, Joe Mande, W. Kamau Bell, Doug Mellard, Jake Flores, Air Sex Championships, Cody Hustak, and way more are coming to Auditorium Shores.
Find a reason to get to Austin if you’re not already there and get your passes ASAP.
This is both the third year of The LA Podcast Festival as well as our third time attending and, as that’s the case, we can most certainly assure you a good thing has only gotten better and better.
Here’s our recap of what went down when a bunch podcasts and their fans take over ritzy Beverly Hills.
All photos courtesy of Los Angeles Podcast Festival
-This was the first year that the LA Podcast Festival took place at Sofitel LA in Beverly Hills and it solved pretty much every drawback from their original location in Santa Monica (i.e. parking, navigating through the festival, it looks nicer).
-Many in the crowd for Talkin’ Shit with Eddie Ifft were thoroughly surprised when they got to see all of transgendered porn star Vaniity.
–Marc Maron and Aisha Tyler hashed out some personal history, specifically when they first met each other, on Girl on Guy. Aisha hilariously made sure to note to Marc that this is her show and not WTF.
-Like every year, one will note that many of the attendees aren’t from LA or even California. Many come from the other side of the country just to make sure they catch their favorite podcast live like The Crabfeast with Jay Larson and Ryan Sickler.
–Superego continued to be one of the funniest podcasts around kicking off Day 2 with a special guest in Conan player Brian Stack and a whirlwind of fun, dark absurdity. We also applaud their matching Superego blazers.
-The crowd at Jonah Raydio had a ball as Jonah Ray made sure that his entire audience had a beer in their hand, treated to a live performance from Upset, fun music news monologue style jokes, and discovered he had to do more time than he expected. This lead to some of the best awful concert stories we’ve heard in awhile.
–Dave Anthony, Gareth Reynolds, and Wil Anderson assembled for a laugh riot of an episode of The Dollop, which we’d describe as a sort of sober version of Drunk History that replaces the reenactments with top shelf riffing from Anthony, Reynolds, and a guest. Edutainment about history’s biggest a-holes has never been as much fun as this.
-An all female guest line-up for WTF with Marc Maron was fascinating especially the likes of Pamela Adlon and Whitney Cummings admired Shelby Fero’s wisdom beyond her years when it comes to dating.
-Podcasts fans at the festival didn’t care how long they would have to wait to get commemorative posters signed to the point where we questioned how much we’re fans of podcasts compared to them.
–Wil Anderson killed it wherever he went at the festival and his own podcast TOFOP was no different. Anderson’s brand of somewhat controlled chaos made for almost non-stop laughs and an unforgettable pop quiz on Russell Crowe facts.
-As far as we’ve seen education hasn’t ever been as funny as it has been on podcasts. See Probably Science’s Matt Kirshen, Jesse Case, and Andy Wood riff on the primates known as Bonobos with Tim Minchin and Dr. Amy Parish. They found their way to tie in feminism while discussing animal behavior and on to applause breaks.
–Matt Besser, Lauren Lapkus, Ian Roberts, and Horatio Sanz ensured that impov4humans was a perennial favorite of the festival just off a scene of visiting the world’s tallest hill.
-Podcast pioneer Jimmy Pardo and his podcast Never Not Funny have been at The LA Podcast Festival most deservedly every single year. Seeing Jimmy having to deal with Pat Francis’ Bruce Springsteen puppet made for a pretty magical evening on its own.
–Go Bayside! and James Bonding are perfect examples of podcasts that celebrate the “nerding out” of a very specific topic, in these cases Saved By The Bell and Agent 007 James Bond, but also very inviting to the uninitiated. April Richardson and Matt Mira/Matt Gourley make a case for enjoying both cultural institutions even if you don’t know who Mr. Belding or the worst Bond villain henchmen are.
–Todd Glass and James Adomian were electric during The Todd Glass Show. Dueling Todd Glass impressions (yes, Todd did an impression of James doing an impression of Todd) were a highlight, but only the tip of the iceberg. We’re convinced that Glass has mastered only letting the audience kind of know what’s happening, but ultimately not caring because they’re having so much damn fun.
–The Kira Soltanovich Show made for an insightful, funny look into parenting not unlike a bunch of parents having drinks and pondering if they’re raising their kid right or not except all the parents are really funny.
If you happened to miss all this glorious podcast goodness, then there’s a livestream video archive of the festival available up until Oct. 19th.
Keep in mind we can only send one guy out to cover all of this so there are only so many things we could make it to and obviously we missed some stuff. Maybe next time, you can go to the LA Podcast Festival yourself and not miss anything.
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail has sure been having as much on stage as they have off stage. Just check out Todd Glass give out ice cream “Ed Debevic’s” style and Pete Holmes, Kyle Kinane, and Thomas Lennon jam out a “forgotten" Garfunkel & Oates cut as a three piece band in front of Garfunkel & Oates.
After watching that, make sure you’re watching every Wed. on Comedy Central at 12:30AM as well as going to the live show also every wed. at Nerdmelt, 8:30PM.
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.
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.
After years of amazing shows in the actual back room of a comic book store, Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail will be premiering as a TV series on Comedy Central tonight.
Clear out whatever you’re doing at 12:30AM to Comedy Central and make sure you’re watching what’s been one of the best comedy shows in LA ever since it started.
As with the regular live show, artist Dave Kloc made an amazing poster for the premiere episode.
Now that The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail is a TV series having its series premiere on Comedy Central Jul. 23rd 12:30AM, you’re probably wondering how it, a great comedy show in the back of a comic book store, all got started.
Well, while it’s always been in the back of Meltdown Comics, it hasn’t always been hosted by Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani. In fact, the show had been going for awhile, but only went to the weekly phenomenon that we all know now with the forces of Jonah, Kumail, and producer/booker Emily Gordon coming together a few years ago.
Watch and hear the full origin story here.
Watch An Episode of The Meltdown with Kumail and Jonah Now
Before the premiere on Wed. Jul. 23rd on Comedy Central, you can now preview an episode of The Meltdown with Kumail and Jonah on Amazon Instant for free featuring Steve Agee, David Koechner, Neal Brennan, and Moshe Kasher.
We highly recommend that you do that at some point today or as soon as you can.
If you haven’t been keeping up with “@midnight with Chris Hardwick” lately, you’ve been missing out on:
Steve Agee made out with Kyle Kinane
Buzzspeed with Rob Delaney/Ali Wong/Tommy Johnagin
Bad Olympic Events with Matt Besser/Ian Roberts/Matt Walsh
Bad Wrestling Moves with Chris Jerico/Kurt Braunohler/Andy Kindler
Failed Podcasts with Jonah Ray/Wil Wheaton/Matt Mira
Sweet Emoji with Nikki Glaser/Steve Agee/Kyle Kinane
Basically, you need to catch up/rewatch/or get into “@midnight”
The Grawlix, one of Denver’s best comedy shows, just celebrated their 3 year anniversary and, in honor of that, put out a compilation album Best of the Grawlix 2013.
Not only does it feature the great comedic stylings of The Grawlix themselves (Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy, and Andrew Orvedahl), but also features performances from other people you probably love like TJ Miller, The Sklar Brothers, Brent Weinbach, Jonah Ray, Beth Stelling, Chris Garcia, John Roy, and more.
As if that wasn’t enough, this album is also free to download meaning you can legally download it for free instead of doing it the shady way. So, get to listening to The Best of The Grawlix 2013 right now.
Kyle Kinane, The Eric Andre Show, Jonah Ray, Jenny Slate, Patton Oswalt, Tenacious D, and many more are making festival style comedy a regular thing in Austin as part of the comedy line-up for Austin’s Fun Fun Fun Fest in November.
‘Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail’ Gets Series Order From Comedy Central
In case it’s not obvious, this is fantastic news. Congratulations on one of the best live shows in LA becoming a TV show. We’re also glad to hear that it will still be taped at Nerdmelt.
This is definitely a great move on Comedy Central’s part with the ever burgeoning world of comedy on TV with IFC, FXx, TBS, and more.