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Comedy Central Announces 2017 Half Hour Specials Line-Up, To Call It “Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents” Instead of “The Half Hour”

March 20, 2017
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Adam Cayton-Holland
Anthony DeVito
Jenny Zigrino
Jo Firestone
Solomon Georgio
Casey James Salengo
Sam Jay
Josh Johnson
Joel Kim Booster
Lashonda Lester
Chris Redd
Yamaneika Saunders
Julio Torres
Shane Torres

Those are the 14 names that will get to do a half hour Comedy Central special that will be now called “Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents” later this Fall. If you take a closer look, this might be CC’s best, most diverse half-hour line-up yet (i.e. it’s mostly fantastic comics that aren’t straight white guys)

Kind of harkens back to the days of when Comedy Central had “Comedy Central Presents”, doesn’t it?

The tapings will take place next month, Wednesday, April 19th-Saturday, April 22nd, in New Orleans at The Civic Theatre. You can get free tickets here.

‘SNL’ Hires Seven New Writers for Season 42

September 15, 2016
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‘SNL’ Hires Seven New Writers for Season 42

Zack Bornstein, Anna Drezen, BriTANick (Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher), Joanna Bradley, Julio Torres, and Kristen Bartlett will be the seven new writers for season 42 of SNL.

With this new row of writers, we hope, based on their previous works including Reductress and any Britanick sketch that SNL gets weirder and more feminist. 

Comedy Central Renews/Adds Snapchat Series from Nikki Glaser, Ian Abramson, Bert Kreischer, Mike Lawrence, Liza Treyger, Julio Torres, and More

March 30, 2016
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(via Deadline)

Looks like Snapchat isn’t going away anytime soon with Comedy Central renewing four exclusively Snapchat based series and adding nine on top of that.

Already, Comedy Central has these series on the booming social media platform Snapchat:
Quickie with Nikki Glaser
Swag-a-Saurus with James Davis
Like It with Liza Treyger
Hot Takes with Brandon Wardell

They’re renewing all of those and then adding: 
–Ian Abramson’s brilliant 7 Mins in Purgatory where comedians perform in an isolated room that has a camera feed shown to a live audience that the comedians can’t hear
-The animated Animal-Lolz which has Joe Zimmerman presenting animal facts
-Animated reenactments of Bert Kreischer’s dreams with Bert’s Dreams
–Caleb Synan failing upward in the world of all those reality cooking shows on Deadliest Chef 
–Dollar Pizza sketch series parodying Uber, Guber Pool
–Julio Torres trying to gives us warnings from the future in Messages From the Future   
–Hudson Brothers animated series The Lounge that follows friends/non-teachers/co-workers/assholes at a middle school.
–Mike Lawrence unleashing his the fury of his opnions on You’re Wrong
–Emily Candini and Dave Horwitz exposing what happens during commercials on a late night talk show

You might want to join Snapchat if you haven’t already. 

Watch IFC’s “Boy Band”, the Darkest Satirical Boy Band Reality Show Parody in Recent Memory

March 28, 2016
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As the boy band formula continues to be successful throughout the decades, there has been parodies of boy bands right there following along. You might remember Conan’s Dudez-a-Plenti or MTV’s 2Ge+her as some of notable examples.

In 2016, Brett Davis of the subversive, meta, absurdist talk show, The Special Without Brett Davis, writes and stars in a new, similarly toned boy band parody in the IFC web series simply called Boy Band. 

NYC comedy folks including Anna Drezen, Jo Firestone, Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres (who also co-wrote a good deal of the series), John Early, and more round out a great cast.

There are six episodes in total and you might not look at boy bands, or any reality show endeavor for that matter, the same way afterwards.

Or, if you have a pretty dark view on the music industry, maybe this would just redouble your feelings about the whole boy band model.

Either way, you should watch the whole series here.

Turns Out That Egg Nog, Like Most of Your Food, Has a Sinister Dynasty Behind It

December 27, 2014
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Julio Torres, Lena Einbinder, and CH2 have “uncovered” the dastardly truth behind the seasonal, tolerated concoction known as “egg nog”.

Along with Brett Davis, John Early, Courtney Maginnis, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu, they show the world the “Nog Dynasty” (because, apparently, that many people buy egg nog to make for an empire?)

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