Broadcast will be live at 2PM PST/5PM EST on IFC.
Before The Oscars tomorrow night, don’t sleep on The Film Independent Spirit Awards, which will be hosted by the fascinating pairing of Kumail Nanjiani and SNL’s Kate McKinnon.
Again, it’s live and with Kumail and Kate, the show could get very interesting.
Silicon Valley is on the precipice of its 3rd season and your favorite underdog tech crew is getting ready to make a stand, yet again.
Watch the teaser here, then look for the season premiere on Sun. Apr. 24th on HBO.
(via Variety)
We sincerely hope that Film Independent lets Kate and Kumail get as weird and crazy as they want.
The choice of hosts in this year’s awards season are really intriguing. From TJ Miller set to host The Critics’ Choice Awards to Ricky Gervais returning for The Golden Globes to now, Kate McKinnon, one of SNL’s current best, and Kumail Nanjiani (who we hope you know from Silicon Valley, The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail, and Portlandia) getting ready to host The Film Independent Spirit Awards.
The ceremony will be broadcast live on IFC on Sat. Feb. 27th, which we’re sure will make for some damn good fun with Kate and Kumail at the helm.
(via Variety)
It’s like we’re playing ‘Christmas Present Madlibs for Comedy Nerds’.
All the names above, Kumail, Emily, Apatow, and Michael Showalter, are essentially buzzwords for those in-the-comedy-know, especially when it comes to The Meltdown, Stella, and Undeclared. Now they’re all teaming up with a script from Nanjiani and Gordon with Apatow as well as the very accomplished producer Barry Mendel attached to produce and Showalter directing.
FilmNation is set to release and finance the production of what is called Big Sick and that’s all that we know about the project at this time. Still, just knowing all the people involved here is good enough for you to go along with whatever movie they’re cooking up.
(via Deadline)
Feel free to high five or hug someone.
Another 8 episodes of The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail are slated to come to Comedy Central in 2016 and, after all the food based bits, audience plants, and great stand-up, we can’t wait to see what Jonah Ray, Kumail Nanjiani, Emily Gordon, and the gang have got cooking next.
If they just celebrated their 5 year anniversary with a Frozen themed birthday party, complete with Jonah and Kumail in the same Frozen costume, we’re sure that’s going to be great.
Simply put, the refined silliness of Eric Dadourian make us smile and double over laughing.
We hope his recent off-TV season performance at The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail will make you feel the same way.
So few comics are brining the rap game into stand-up the way Joe Mande is.
Let his set from The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail be all the proof you need.
Watch it uncensored and extended here.
Get as close a sense of what it was like to catch Hannibal Buress live in the back of a comic book store while he was wearing sunglasses and a “loud-ass shirt” with this nice, long, uncensored set from The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.
Even though it’s been over a decade since Girl Next Door, a popular film that had criticism of our education system for not having up-to-date sex education, came out, many sex ed programs in schools around the country are still very much behind the times.
Luckily, John Oliver and the team at Last Week Tonight (as well as some extra help from Nick Offerman, Kristen Schaal, Laverne Cox, Kumail Nanjiani, Jack McBrayer, Megan Mullally, Aisha Tyler, and Jonathan Banks in an updated sex ed video) have got us all covered.
Watch it all here.
One of things that could happen any week at The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail is spit takes, multiple spit takes, or even a whole round of spit take practice.
Watch and learn how to properly spit water in shock and surprise here.
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.
Paul Scheer’s Scheer-RL continues to roll out with recreating some of the crazier moments that have happened on any sort of show, much less a music video countdown show like Total Request Live.
These latest episodes recount the times when Marilyn Manson, played by here Brett Gelman, fielded weird questions from Carson Daly and audience members about his controversial music and when Mariah Carey, played by Kumail Nanjiani, just bizarrely showed up without any prior booking or invitation along with a popsicle cart right before they cut to commercial.
Though exaggerated, stuff like Mariah interrupting TRL really did happen and Scheer-RL does well in playing up what many of us were thinking when that was happening live.
The number of times NBC has to bleep out the word “dick” is past midnight is pretty funny just by itself.
Kumail Nanjiani stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers this week and explained how many of the jokes he makes on Silicon Valley get often quoted to him in inappropriate real life situations, which, given the content of the show, is a lot of the time.
The moral of the story here is that you don’t tell the world’s greatest dick joke without it following you wherever you go.
HBO’s Silicon Valley has some “unique” fans.
Season 2 of Silicon Valley is just right around the corner with the premiere set for this Sunday Apr. 12th at 10PM on HBO.
To get us all excited, cast members Zach Woods, Thomas Middleditch, Martin Starr, and Kumail Nanjiani answered some “fan mail” (there’s a real liberal use of the word “fan” here).
Watch it here and take note how to not ask TV series cast members questions.
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 second season of Silicon Valley premieres Fri. Apr. 12th at 10PM on HBO and the whole gang is going to be back in full force, seated comfortably in a repurposed living room at their computers next to their white board with a disgruntled TJ Miller in a robe.
Just check the first promo and then save the date.
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.
The release of The Daily Show’s Aasif Mandvi’s book No Land’s Man is just around the corner on Nov. 4th. Yet, Mandvi, in trying to make a promotional trailer for the book has had trouble getting people to help him promote it.
Just watch him look to Jack Black, John Oliver, Wyatt Cenac, Kumail Nanjiani and Connie Britton for help and see who Mandvi’s real friends are.
Then, you can pre-order No Land’s Man here.
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.