Adult Swim continues their series of bizarre, possibly disturbing, but altogether, pretty great informercials with one plugging Frank Pierre Resort & Casino.
Paul Scheer and Ray Wise make a great case for why vacationing on Native American lands might be the best/worst idea ever. Watch it here.
If you, for some reason, are still doubting the popularity, look no further than the launch of Paul Scheer’s very own podcast network Wolfpop today. Scheer himself has plenty of success with his own podcast How Did This Get Made? and several appearances on a multitude of other podcasts and is now moving on up with a network of his own, which, by the looks of it, is going to be pretty great.
Started with the help of Earwolf and Matt Gourley, Wolfpop will feature podcasts focused on comedy and pop culture such as DENZEL WASHINGTON IS THE GREATEST ACTOR OF ALL TIME PERIOD with W. Kamau Bell and Kevin Avery or Reading Outloud with Nate Corddry or Cry Babies with Sarah Thyre and Susan Orlean or The Stallone Podcast with Paul Scheer and Sly Stallone and so much more.
We know that you want get into all of this already, so we’ll let you get to that.
Proud to announce that @paulscheer’s “Schee-R-L” is coming soon! Photo Credit: our awesome director @PaymanBenz pic.twitter.com/NCPWJukyur
— JASH (@jash) November 4, 2014
Paul Scheer already did a bang up job reenacting The Arsenio Hall Show with the ArScheerio Paul Show, so it would make complete sense that he would do reenact another 90s show where things were live and could go awry.
From this tweet/picture above, it looks like that MTV’s TRL, or Total Request Live, is going to get the same treatment as SRL from Scheer, JASH, and director Payman Benz.
Hopefully, if this is all of what they’re up to, they will hopefully reenact that one time Mariah Carey crashed the studio live on air, unannounced with a popsicle cart.
One of the stand out songs from Bo Burnham’s groundbreaking comedy special what. is “Repeat Stuff” where Burnham breaks down the problem with love songs at large these days.
To drive his point even further, he made this darkly hilarious music video to accompany it and you should absolutely watch it right now.
From 11:20-25:23 of this episode of Estrella TV’s Noches Con Platanito’s, which is, from what we can gather, a Mexican version of The Tonight Show with a host dressed up as a clown the entire time, Paul Scheer and Nadine Velazquez from The League were guests.
While Nadine speaks Spanish, Paul really doesn’t and they didn’t give him a translator. Also, apparently, they get away with a whole lot more bizarre, crazy stuff on Mexican late night than they do on American late night.
Also, you get to see Paul give an inspired lipsyncing performance of “Let It Go” from Frozen.
(via Entertainment Weekly)
IFC is not only having The Birthday Boys return at 11:30PM on Oct. 17th, but the show is set to have the likes of Kyle Gass, Jack Black, Sandra Bernhard, Scott Aukerman, Chris Elliott, Carmen Electra, Horatio Sanz, Kate Micucci, Riki Lindhome, Fred Willard, Paul Scheer, Thomas Lennon, Doris Roberts, Tim & Eric, and way more guest starring in their second season.
So, along with Comedy Bang! Bang!’s mega sized season, add this to your regular IFC viewing schedule.
While you may be intending to have a nice Labor Day BBQ this weekend, you will no doubt expect that there will be some guests that are less than desirable that find their way to your get together.
CC:Studios’ CC:Social Scene held a fighting game style tournament (of sorts) to see who really is the worst BBQ guest.
Who wins? Just watch to find out. (Spoiler alert: no one wins in this contest. No one.)
The latest tapings of Comedy Central’s are indeed set for next month on Sept 9th, 15th, and 16th at Cheetah’s Club and now, their line-ups have just been announced (and it’s going to be pretty damn good).
Set to tell a story of something absolutely insane happening will be:
Cristela Alonzo
Rob Corddry
DL Hughley
Keegan-Michael Key
Bobby Lee
Starlee Kine
Marc Maron
Joe Rogan
Paul Scheer
Ms. Pat Williams
Bert Kreischer
Jay Larson
Ralphie May
Iliza Shlesinger
Cy Amundson
Jay Oakerson
Tom Papa
Steve Rannazzisi
Rory Scovel
Sean O’Connor
Ali Siddiq
Duncan Trussell
Will Weldon
Kevin Christy
Joey Diaz
Barry Rothbart
Giulia Rozzi
So, get your tickets here.
Paul Scheer along with Lilan Bowden, Jeff Sloniker, Barak Hardley, Lee Newton, Jacob Womack, and H. Michael Croner make up Comedy Central’s CC: Social Scene that will be making sketches based off of theme based user suggestions from Twitter.
For proof, here’s the whole CC: Social Scene team together explaining what’s happening. So far, there will only be six episodes, so don’t sit too long on thinking of what to suggest if you indeed want to hopefully influence a sketch at the Twitter #CCSocialScene.
Following in the steps of Burning Love, the “Housewives” reality TV franchise is getting its own send-up with The Hotwives of Orlando.
Casey Wilson, Kristen Schaal, Angela Kinsey, Andrea Savage, Paul Scheer, Matt Besser, Tymberlee Hill, Danielle Schneider, and so many more of your favorite comedy folks have, according to Paul Scheer, “More Drama than Game Of Thrones, More Fights than the UFC & More Weaves than a Tyler Perry Show”.
Paul Scheer Is Putting NTSF:SD:SUV on Hold; Developing Other Projects at Adult Swim and HBO
Paul Scheer is as busy as he’s ever been. With being on plenty of shows, appearing on so many web videos, now getting into comic books, and still performing live, Scheer has a lot on his plate. Opting to not force another season of NTSF:SD:SUV out when he doesn’t feel inspired enough, he’s going to other projects that are in development.
One of them is at Adult Swim and is a G.I. Joe like cartoon that depicts Cobra nowadays. The HBO project is supposedly “True Detective-esque”.
While NTSF:SD:SUV is on hold, these two new developments already have us hooked.
Sean O’Connor and Jensen Karp have been doing a series of live reads at UCB Theatre here in LA and they’re latest one brings back the 90’s “classic” Space Jam.
Seth Green plays an alternative Bugs Bunny, Nick Kroll plays Daffy Duck, Blake Griffin plays Michael Jordan, Paul Scheer plays Wayne Knight’s role, Ralph Garman does Porky Pig and more, and DeAndre Jordan nails playing Charles Barkley.
Rob Huebel to Play ‘super terrible dude’ on Parks and Recreation
Rob Huebel is set to guest star on Parks and Recreation this season, playing an aforementioned ‘super terrible dude’, which we’re sure will be great.
We can only hope that Paul Scheer who has also guest starred on the show, would somehow be on the same episode for a semi-Human Giant crossover.
Paul Scheer Is Now Making Alien Comic Books
We’re not necessarily into comic books a lot here, but a series of them from Paul Scheer definitely peaks our interest. And, it’s centered on aliens?
That’s even better.
Really, any form where Scheer gets to let his imagination run wild has usually proven to be pretty great.
Hulu announced this morning a slate of original programming to come out this year featuring many comedy series.
One of those comedy series is The Hotwives of Orlando that has a cast boasting Casey Wilson, Kristen Schaal, Angela Kinsey, Andrea Savage, Matt Besser, and more as well as being executive produced by Paul Scheer and Jonathan Stern.
Paul Scheer’s Arscheerio Paul has become a point of fascination for Arsenio Hall to the point where Arsenio had Arscheerio come on in probably one of the greatest, most meta bits you’ll see on Arsenio.
Watch their interview (of each other?) here.
If you think you’ve seen it all from Paul Scheer or Rob Huebel or from both Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel as Crash Test, well, you haven’t.
They are apparently taping their special for Crash Test on a 60 ft. glass bus throughout LA this weekend. See the picture at the link for proof and follow @crashtestshow on Twitter to get updates.
Adult Swim Is Airing Pilots from Tim & Eric and Paul Scheer
We’re not sure if how the pilots do ratings wise or reviews/internet buzz wise will affect their being picked up or not, but more networks could probably stop doing a lot of guess work if they aired their pilots.
Also, a Paul Scheer version of Pretty Little Liars is definitely something we want to see ASAP.
ABC Buys Paul Scheer Relationship Comedy
Potentially, with ABC buying a Paul Scheer comedy, husband and wife Paul Scheer and June Diane Raphael could both have sitcoms on the network (Raphael has already sold a pilot at ABC).
Not only would it be one hell of a comedy power couple, but ABC could have a formidable comedy line-up for this coming season.
Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel Are Making a ‘Crash Test’ Comedy Central Special
This is the type of move we’re hoping that Comedy Central would make. As the arena of cable network comedy is expanding in addition to the proliferation of comedy online, the old guard has to try some new things and the new thing of the day happens to be Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel doing a comedy special of their anything goes live show Crash Test.
And by anything goes, we mean we’ve been made to do an improvised pledge of allegiance to Crash Test, dissected Vin Diesel’s Facebook page, try to cheer up Pauly Shore’s former assistant who happened to be in the audience, and more.
We can’t wait to see what Scheer and Huebel come up with.
The Arsenio Hall Show, when it was on the air, was kind of a crazy place and to make sure we don’t forget that Paul Scheer is re-enacting interviews in a web series for Jash Network’s buhhhhhh called The ArScheerio Paul Show.
How crazy? Well, just watch what happened when The Ultimate Warrior (played by Rob Huebel) came on to the show.
Paul Scheer makes pretty much everything he does undeniably fun and damn funny even if it’s talking to journalists or being on panels in front of thousands of peoples being asked questions about the show he’s on, which could be rote like they often are, or they could end up firing t-shirt cannons or working on an alibi to kill the cast of Children’s Hospital like he did in a recent NTSF:SU:SUV interview with TV Line.
Here’s the First Preview of NTSF:SD:SUV Season 3 with Co-Star Karen Gillan
We know there are plenty of reasons to freak out at the headline if you’re a comedy nerd, a Dr. Who fan, or one in the same, but just take some deep breaths, maybe use a paper bag if you have to, then enjoy this clip from season 3 of NTSF:SD:SUV coming to Adult Swim next week on July 25th.
We Predict That SyFy Channel’s “Sharknado” Will Be a Popular Topic For Comedy
SyFy Channel over the last few years has invested in a rebirth of sorts of the niche midnight movie subgenre (i.e. movies that are so awesomely bad that they’re good) such as Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus.
With that in mind, it would almost seem with SyFy’s latest creation in another apocalyptic shark movie, Sharknado, that Doug Benson’s Movie Interruption, How Did This Get Made? with Paul Scheer, almost all comedians on Twitter, and more are in cahoots with SyFy to have movies made that they can make fun of.
Basically, you can’t tell us that a movie that combines sharks and tornadoes won’t be source material for comedy in several forms.
2) J. Chris Newberg discovers that roasting works on America’s Got Talent.
3) Jeff MacKinnon who was in LA is now covering the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for Laughspin.
4) Children’s Hospital gets a 4th Season!
5) The hit improvised stand-up show started in LA, Set List, tours at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to stellar reviews.
6) W. Kamau Bell shows how fame can go to a comedian’s head even when they’re not that famous.
7) Not sure what to expect from a comedy contest? Connected Comedy can help with that.
8) NTSF:SD:SUV’s Trent Hauser has a special message for the blind people of America… or does he?
Don’t Trust the Blind! from Paul Scheer
9) Puddin’-“Daily Affirmation”
10) ON THE HORIZON
Conan Showcase (now with Rob Delaney) @ Nerdist Theater Fri. Aug. 19th 8PM $8
Bill Burr @ Largo at the Coronet Theater Tues. Sept. 13th 8PM/10PM $20
11) COMEDY CRAWL
Smartest Man in the World LIVE w/Greg Proops @ Bar Lubitsch 7PM FREE
Women Who Kill @ Hollywood Improv 8PM $14/2 item min.
Bil Dwyer @ Comedy Central Stages 8PM FREE RSVP at (323) 960-5519
Persona @ Hollywood Improv Lab 8:30PM $5
Meltdown @ Nerdist Theater 8:30PM $8
The Ed Galvez Punk House @ Westside Comedy Theater 9PM $8
Frolic! One Year Anniversary @ Far Bar 9PM FREE
5 Second Films Screening @ El Cid 9PM $8
Facebook @ UCB Theatre 9:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Beer in the Shower @ Dreams Cafe & Bar 9:30PM FREE
Mostly Normal Show @ Hollywood Improv Lab 10:30PM $5
The Anna Lee Lawson Comedy Hour-ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY @ Next Stage Theater 11PM $5
12) OPEN MIC RUN
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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 min./multiple sets allowed/first come, first served/coffee and bottled water available
13) Sometimes, when you’re down, you just need to hear “You’re a gorilla… and that’s a good thing,” at 1 in the morning.
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