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(via THR)

While reviving animated IP is a very predictable trend (especially while live action series keep getting tripped by pauses due to COVID-19 outbreaks along with an increase in scheduling and budgetary issues), the prospect of the return of the Tiny Toons, a somewhat niche branch of the Looney Tunes animated universe, with someone like Erin Gibson at the helm is very surprising and enticing to us.

Gibson has not only been the co-host of one of the more beloved podcasts around, Throwing Shade, but has always been an incredibly clever, outspoken, subversive writer, comedian, and performer all the way back to when she used to play Michele Bachman in Funny or Die sketches.

Gibson has placed as showrunner and co-EP with Adventure Time’s Nate Cash for this new edition of Tiny Toons, Tiny Toons: Looniversity wherein the Tiny Toons gang will learn how to become “professional” toons. Both HBO Max and Cartoon Network ordered the series, but as to which will platform will get “dibs” or however it’ll work is TBD.

In any case, we have a feeling, because of who is in charge, that this might be another animated series that is initially geared towards children, but will have plenty to enjoy that’s just for the adults as well. That’ll be important since we are still stuck inside because of the pandemic and will still be for quite some time to come.

Comic Con Is Going Virtual This Year, Will Still Have Plenty of Comedy Panels, and Will Be Free

Something the size of world famous, annual San Diego Comic-Con obviously isn’t going to happen this year due to the pandemic. However, rather than just outright postponing, Comic-Con is going to try for virtual editions of their renowned panels that reveal insider info and details from creators and talent of movies, TV, comic-books, etc.

They’re calling it Comic-Con@Home and it’ll stream from Jul. 22nd-26th and, best of all, it’ll be free (or maybe not waiting to get into Hall H is better?). This virtual edition of SDCC will include panel discussion from What We Do In the Shadows, Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons, Solar Opposites, Robot Chicken, Archer, Crossing Swords, Duncanville, Upload, The Boys, Superstore, Adventure Time, Infinity Train, Phineas and Ferb, Bless the Harts, American Dad!, Family Guy, Looney Tunes, and Bill & Ted Face the Music.

Look through the entire Comic-Con@Home schedule and get details on how to stream all of these events here.

HBO Max Announces 5 Comedy Specials from Team Coco, New Looney Tunes, and New Comedy Series from Elizabeth Banks, Issa Rae, and Mindy Kaling

October 30, 2019

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As the world is on the precipice of Apple TV+, HBO is taking a big swing for their own streaming service, HBO Max, with regards to their comedy programming.

Just today, they made this flurry of announcements.

Conan O’Brien’s Team Coco will be producing five stand-up special, two of which will be with multiple comedians and three of which will be full hours (Deadline). A new batch of Looney Tunes (Deadline), a DC Universe series from Elizabeth Banks, a female rap group comedy from Issa Rae, and a coming-of-age-in-college sitcom from Mindy Kaling (Deadline) are all on the way.

If you’ve been following the trail of HBO Max, you know that this is only the tip of the iceberg for them. So, are you ready to cue Futurama’s most famous meme yet?

Here’s the First of the Newest Batch of Looney Tunes Shorts “Dynamite Dance”

June 14, 2019

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That’s right. The original Looney Tunes animated shorts are coming back again, trying to maintain their signature absurdity from their original 30s/40s counterparts and being updated for today’s sensibilities/audiences.

The Annecy Film Festival got to showcase many of these new Looney Tunes including this one, Dynamite Dance, that has been officially released on YouTube, directed by David Gemmill and written by Gemmill, Pete Browngardt, and Johnny Ryan.

There is definitely spirit from the original Looney Tunes, but it’s interesting that this first one featuring iconic characters Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd without either one speaking. We are definitely curious who Warner Bros. has lined-up to follow the legendary Mel Blanc.

Most of us will just have to wait and see when the rest are released sometime in 2019.

Looney Tunes Cartoon Shorts to Be Revived by Warner Bros. Animation

June 11, 2018

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Looney Tunes Cartoon Shorts to Be Revived by Warner Bros. Animation

The cartoon shorts under the umbrella of the Looney Tunes that so many of us enjoyed during our youth is indeed being revived by Warner Bros. Animation.

1000 minutes of new shorts will be made per “season” by several animators “…to be distributed across multiple platforms including digital, mobile and broadcast.”

So, get ready for brand new Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat, Wile E Coyote, Road Runner, Yosemite Sam, Tweety Bird, and many more. We’re definitely intrigued to see how classic cartoon characters will fit into the world of animation in 2018 and that there is minimal shouting from “nostalgia police”.

Maybe if this goes well, they’ll indeed try and make Space Jam 2 happen?

RIP The Voice Behind Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck and Bob from ‘Bob and Ray’

February 7, 2016

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This week, the comedy world lost Joe Alaskey and Bob Elliott.

Alaskey was most noted for voicing some of Warner Bros. most beloved characters after the legendary Mel Blanc including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester the Cat, and Tweety Bird as well as voicing roles in Rugrats and Tom and Jerry just to name a very few. He passed away at 63 this week.

Bob Elliott, father to Chris Elliott and grandfather to Abby Elliott, was one half of one of the longest running duos in the history of comedy. With his partner Ray Goulding, Bob has performed on radio, TV, movies, and Broadway all the way back to the 1940s. It’s hard to think of such an achievement ever being bested these days. As noted above, Bob Elliott heads a sort of comedy dynasty. Bob passed away at 92 at the beginning of this week.

May the memory of their comedy live on as you’re probably looking both of them up on Wikipedia and YouTube right now.

Steve Carell To Star in Upcoming Looney Tunes Movie “Acme”

August 29, 2014

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(via Variety)

Warner Bros. is visiting the vault of their animated properties and bringing feature adaptations up on their development slate.

Specifically, a feature project entitled “Acme”, presumably the same Acme that is on all those anvils and boxes of dynamite, featuring the world of Looney Tunes is now set and Steve Carell will be starring in it as well.

Perhaps, if this goes well, it might be one step closer to a Space Jam 2?

Morning Debriefing 7/17/11

1) Why can’t we have something like the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival here in LA? This sounds pretty fantastic and maybe you should donate to the cause…

2) Real Life: My Girlfriend’s A Bitch with Iliza Shlesinger.

3) Punchline Magazine became Laughspin.com and now there’s a whole page of stuff we contribute.

4) So Kristen Wiig is the voice of Babs in this slightly disturbing reboot of Looney Tunes on Cartoon Network and will produce and star in a suicide themed comedy that focuses on a woman who fakes suicide to gain the attention of an ex-boyfriend. We like this dark comedy streak by Wiig and hope it continues.

5) Remember when David Lynch used to do the daily weather? We’re surprised Lynch didn’t go the route of Rick Shapiro and his frequently posted and out of order Morning Meditations from Our Lady of No Thought Depot.

6) One of the more important things to note about GQ’s current “comedy” issue out on magazine racks now is that no one would know if it’s an issue about comedy if GQ didn’t tell anybody.

7) ON THE HORIZON
Jamie Kilstein-One Night Only @ Steve Allen Theater Mon. July 18th 8PM $10
The 2 & 45 @ All Star Lanes Mon. July 18th 8PM FREE

8) COMEDY CRAWL
Matt Besser: Enter the Hot Chicks Room @ UCB Theatre 6PM FREE
ASSSSCAT @ UCB Theatre 7:30PM FREE
Re-Animator: The Musical @ The Steve Allen Theater 8PM $30
A Gentle Evening With Josh & Don IV @ Fake Gallery 8:30PM FREE
French Toast @ Taix 8:30PM FREE
Top Story Weekly! @ iO West 9PM $5
Louis C.K. Working On New Shit During An Evening of Disjointed Comedy @ Largo 9PM $20-Sold Out
Power Violence @ The Complex 9PM FREE
Set List @ Flappers Burbank 9PM $12/2 item min.
Celebrity @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Shitty Jobs @ UCB Theatre 11PM $5 (stand by only)

9) OPEN MIC RUN
PALMS 8572 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/lottery
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
NERDIST THEATRE 7522 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (back room of Meltdown Comics)/Sign-up 7:15PM/Starts 7:30PM/lottery/30 spots available/no purchase necessary
TSUNAMEDY @ TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA (Echo Park)/Sign-up 8PM/Starts 9PM/first come, first served/mixed mic
MARTY’S/THE OPEN MIC 7351 W. Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA (walk up Martel past Big Mama’s and Papa’s)/5PM to 11PM/$5/multiple sets allowed/bottled water and coffee available

10) As reporting of Carmeggedon continues, people are calling the 405 the main freeway in LA. That’s bullshit. The 10 gets no respect? If you want a real Carmeggedon shut down the 10 freeway between the 405 and the 110. (I obviously drive too much and think about these things)

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Tiny Toons To Be Revived as “Tiny Toons Looniversity” with Erin Gibson as Showrunner

Comic Con Is Going Virtual This Year, Will Still Have Plenty of Comedy Panels, and Will Be Free

HBO Max Announces 5 Comedy Specials from Team Coco, New Looney Tunes, and New Comedy Series from Elizabeth Banks, Issa Rae, and Mindy Kaling

Here’s the First of the Newest Batch of Looney Tunes Shorts “Dynamite Dance”

Looney Tunes Cartoon Shorts to Be Revived by Warner Bros. Animation

RIP The Voice Behind Bugs Bunny/Daffy Duck and Bob from ‘Bob and Ray’

Steve Carell To Star in Upcoming Looney Tunes Movie “Acme”

Morning Debriefing 7/17/11