With the latest round of presidential debates out of the way, you can now catch up to the important post-debate analysis that Paul F. Tompkins, his puppet pundit collective at No, You Shut Up! have been doing.
Start off with the first NYSU Election Special Report that Fusion was nice enough to put on YouTube in full, complete with guests Hannibal Buress and Kristen Schaal.
Last night’s No, You Shut Up! with Paul F. Tompkins election special had a particularly big announcement from the one and only Patton Oswalt.
Apparently, the 2016 election has a new horse in the race as Patton Oswalt has “announced” that he’s running for president. Now, everyone will probably have to step up their crazy even more.
Watch his “announcement” here.
These are our ‘you better watch our mother-trucking new show tonight’ faces… 10pm ET on @ThisIsFusion! pic.twitter.com/a2zXtEfC68
Can’t make heads or tails of that last GOP presidential debate? Don’t try to.
Just let Paul F. Tompkins and his cadre of puppet pundits on No, You Shut Up! show you just how non-sensical this particular election has gotten in another NYSU election special. Also, Patton Oswalt will be a special guest for all the tomfoolery that’s sure to ensue.
Watch it on Fusion tonight at 10PM.
If this week’s No, You Shut Up! election special is any indication, you should be definitely marking your calendar for Feb. 4th when it comes back in full force for season 4 on Fusion.
Just watch Hannibal Buress trying to hip Paul F. Tompkins to get the slang phrase “totally penis” into the mainstream vernacular from that special and you’ll see why we’re saying that you should be saving the date now.
TONIGHT, 10pm, on Fusion! A @NoYouShutUp special report! Here’s some of me taking about it: https://t.co/49ODPDikkZ #NYSU4
Be sure to a) Have/get Fusion, then b) at 10PM, tune whatever TV you’re watching to Fusion to watch a special report from one of our favorite shows, No, You Shut Up! with Paul F. Tompkins.
Also, note that you can watch Fusion through Apple TV and Roku.
While we’re still a bit away from the new season of No, You Shut Up! with Paul F. Tompkins that’s set to premiere in February.
However, we’re not that far away from two election specials of No, You Shut Up!. In fact, the first one airs next. Thurs. on Nov. 5th at Fusion and you can get a taste of the fun they’ll be having making Supergirl into a political issue and the like here.
With Bob & David is coming in a couple of weeks to Netflix and to combat that itch you’re probably having, here’s an entire sketch where the gang of Bob Odenkirk, David Cross, Jay Johnston, John Ennis, Paul F. Tompkins, and the voice of Scott Aukerman are all together again.
If this doesn’t make your Monday, we don’t know what will.
So, you should be tuning into Comedy Central at 11PM-1AM tonight.
On what will be balmy summer evening in LA, even though its technically fall, and probably much cooler elsewhere, there will be two hours of great stand-up tonight on Comedy Central.
11PM–Paul F. Tompkins “Crying and Driving
12AM–The Half Hour with Randy Liedtke
12:30AM–The Half Hour with Beth Stelling
Set a reminder/your DVR/etc. Just don’t miss out.
It’s been more than couple of years since we’ve seen an hour long comedy special from the great Paul F. Tompkins. Of course, that has a lot to do with him churning out his other great works like No, You Shut Up!, Dead Authors, Spontaneanation, Superego, Thrilling Adventure Hour, Comedy Bang! Bang!, and way more.
However, the wait, even though there has been plenty of Paul to go around in the meantime, for a new Tompkins special is over as Crying and Driving will premiere this Sat. Oct. 10th at 11PM on Comedy Central.
If you still don’t want to wait those dozens of hours, there are these preview clips here…
…here…
…and here to keep your hunger for more PFT in check.
Don’t be surprised if the puppets on No, You Shut Up! w/Paul F. Tompkins end up making more sense than both candidates and their corresponding pundits.
Fusion made the real smart move by bringing back No, You Shut Up! for a fourth season that will be primed to handle the 2016 presidential race and its accompanying chaos.
The new season will run with 25 episodes and premieres on Feb. 4th, 2016. For those who can’t wait that long, and we know that you’re out there, two “special reports are set for Nov. 5th and Nov. 12th at 10PM on Fusion’s schedule.
In the meantime, please revisit fantastic, past No, You Shut Up episodes and clips all over here.
Sat. Oct. 10th is the date to be exact.
Mark down that date because you’ll want to catch Paul F. Tompkins latest one hour special Crying and Driving in its worldwide television premiere on Comedy Central.
We were lucky enough to be in attendance for the taping at the gorgeous Palace Theatre in downtown LA and can tell you that, after watching it, Tompkins should be one of the permanent definitions for the phrase “absolute delight”.
This thing only keeps getting bigger and better.
Sept. 18th-20th is just around the corner and will be when podcasters and their army of podcast fans take over the chic Sofitel in Beverly Hills for The 4th Annual Los Angeles Podcast Festival.
Thus far, scheduled to appear are:
The Adventure Zone
Alonzo Bodden: Who’s Paying Attention?
Comedy Film Nerds
Dining with Doug and Karen
Dinner Party Download
The Dollop
The Dork Forest
Doug Loves Movies
Filip & Fredrik
Fitzdog Radio
The 40 Year Old Boy
Giant Bombcast
Girl on Guy with Aisha Tyler
Hollywood Handbook
I Love Green Guide Letters
I Seem Fun: The Diary of Jen Kirkman
The Indoor Kids
The JV Club
The Long Shot Podcast
Maltin on Movies
Mental Illness Happy Hour
My Brother, My Brother And Me
Never Not Funny
Out of the Box
Probably Science
The Smartest Man in the World
SPONTANEANATION with Paul F. Tompkins
Sports Without Balls
Stuff You Should Know
Superego
The Thrilling Adventure Hour
The Todd Glass Show
TOFOP
Walking The Room
Who’s Paying Attention?
With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus
The World of Phil Hendrie
The Worst Idea of All Time
WTF with Marc Maron
Pretty swell, right?
If that’s a little steep or you’re unable to make it to Beverly Hills, there’s a livestream of all the podcast tapings for just $25. Along with livestream access, you’ll have access to an archive for a month after to watch whatever you might have missed.
You don’t even have to pause whatever podcast you’re listening to right at this moment to go get your tickets.
Paul just announced this on the latest episode of Alison Rosen Is Your New Best Friend.
More intense discussion between puppets, Paul F. Tompkins, and a guest that probably doesn’t have an entirely clear idea of what’s going on are coming back for more great absurd panel show fun very soon for the fourth season of No, You Shut Up! with Paul F. Tompkins.
Hopefully, with its return, maybe it can be the most Googled show of 2015?
In the meantime, catch up/rewatch No, You Shut Up on Hulu.
Take your song of the summer, whatever it is, and forget it. Then, replace with your suite of the summer as done by the endlessly talented Eban Schletter and his Amity Suite.
He played it recently at Paul F. Tompkins live variety show, Varietopia and it in place of lyrics that you can scream over and over, there’s plenty of twists and turns that will be fun to hum and see if you can get the timing right.
Also take note of the announcement at the end that Tompkins’ Varietopia will return.
Please catch up on all the episodes as well as the delightful Internet Games of Paul F. Tompkins’ wonderful Speakeasy.
For over 3 years, Paul has hosted his own, great, intimate one-on-one talk show with fancy libations on Speakeasy over at Made Man’s YouTube Channel. Due to Paul’s schedule having to balance such projects as No, You Shut Up!, Superego, Spontaneation, With Bob and David, BoJack Horseman, Comedy Bang! Bang!, a new stand-up special, appearing on @midnight, and way more, he has decided to retire the show.
So, with that in mind, you’ll still have plenty of Paul to enjoy in all those things we just mentioned and undoubtedly more things that he has coming down the pipeline very soon.
Your favorite self-embattled animated horse, BoJack Horseman, is almost back for his second season on Netflix. About to star in his dream role of Secretariat, BoJack encounters a new round of problems, many of which we’re sure are self-inflicted, and we can’t wait to see it all unravel with Princess Caroline, Todd, Mr. Peanut Butter, and Diane.
Also, Lisa Kudrow voices an owl that’s a new love interest of BoJack.
Get into the season two trailer here then look for the release of whole second season on Netflix starting July 17th.
Hannibal Buress is on Broad City and The Eric Andre Show as well as all over the country and the world with his stand-up. On top of all of that, he’s about to start with his very own show Why? on Comedy Central.
So, with that a mind, catch a moment of Paul F. Tompkins catching a few moments (including one about how aware he is of what’s happening on The Eric Andre Show) with one of the funniest and busiest people in comedy, Hannibal Buress on the latest episode of Speakeasy.
Chock full of great bits from top to bottom coming from every which way, CollegeHumor’s very first Comedy Music Hall of Fame hosted by Paul F. Tompkins from this weekend is now on YouTube for your viewing convenience.
You’ll see how good an awards show can be when it’s not done as a completely live telecast.
With Paul F. Tompkins as the master of the evening’s ceremonies, you’ll be sure to see plenty of fun bits like this one with The Gregory Brothers.
Be sure to catch the inaugural CollegeHumor Comedy Music Hall of Fame tonight at 8PM PST at CollegeHumor.com or on IFC at 10PM.
2015 will be the year that we saw the creation of both a Comedy Hall of Fame as well a Comedy Music Hall of Fame. While we know that you can see hologram performances at the Comedy Hall of Fame, the premiere of the Comedy Music Hall of Fame special leaves the imagination to run wild especially with Paul F. Tompkins hosting, Weird Al Yankovic, Jack Black, Rachel Bloom, Trevor Moore, and more involved in the inaugural edition of this event.
Watch a trailer for it here and see what we’re talking about then tune in Fri. Jun. 19th at either CollegeHumor.com at 8PM or on TV on IFC at 10PM.
Earlier this year, one of the funniest podcasts around, Superego, revealed the existence of a sketch about scissor repairman that they had recorded that went nearly 40 minutes known as Stetch Maldonay.
They weren’t sure what to do with it due to its unwieldy length. So, they opted to have a contest to see if any of the Superego faithful would be able to make it into something that’s fit for their high quality brand of short form audio absurdity.
Well, months after the contest was announced, they’ve found a winner in a submission from one Blake Fawley, which you can hear here.
We’ve heard it and it definitely meets Superego standards. They’ve also found some runner-up winners as well that you can listen to here.
If there’s any takeaway here, you should just be listening to any and all of Superego.
Jerry Minor has had an extensive comedy career from the legendary Mr. Show all the way to a comedy about shared offices, Sharing, that might surprise you after watching this chat he has with Paul F. Tompkins on Speakeasy.
Also, they fascinatingly touch a dab on male privilege via the perspective of male characters in comedy.
Watch the whole, as always, nice, long chat with classy drinks here.
Before getting gigs at faux/parody talk show Comedy Bang! Bang!, then real talk show The Late Late Show with James Corden, Reggie Watts has toured pretty much non-stop since the late 90s,
Reggie chats about all of that and more (including getting into Pitch Perfect 2) as well as clinks drinks with Paul F. Tompkins on the latest episode of Speakeasy.
Basically, there has been a bevy of great profile interviews from the 2015 episodes of Last Call with Carson Daly.
Watch profile/interviews of such good comedy folks including
Beth Stelling
Kathryn Hahn
Aasif Mandvi
Jen Kirkman
Zach Woods
Marcella Arguello
Solomon Georgio
Ben Gleib
Pete Holmes and Rob Bell
Dan Levy
Ryan O’Flanagan
Chris Garcia
Paul F. Tompkins
Henry Winkler
Tony Hale
Jay Larson
Kurt Braunohler
Randall Park
Tony Hinchcliffe
Jack McBrayer
Jamie Lee
Rob Corddry
Thomas Lennon
Jemaine Clement
David Cross
Iliza Shlesinger
If you’ve somehow ran out of stuff to binge watch this Memorial Day Weekend or just in general, these interviews should be the perfect thing to watch next.
The likes of Weird Al Yankovic, Tenacious D, Rachel Bloom, Trevor Moore, and more have brought the art of musical comedy to a point where they warrant an entire TV special honoring their works over the years.
So, College Humor and IFC are doing just that with the very first CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of Fame. The great Paul F. Tompkins will be presiding as the host and there will be retrospectives, interviews, and new videos to be seen.
The festivities can be seen on IFC on Fri. Jun. 19th at 10PM.
Here’s an announcement as proof of all of the above.