Sarah Silverman’s I Love You, America will not be Last Week Tonight or Full Frontal, but will feature bits of wisdom from her father while he’s swimming.
See her describe it and preview a bit of her dad on the show here.
Commenting on the upcoming show at the TCAs today, Silverman wants to make a point of trying to engage and connect with people that aren’t anywhere near her perspective, ideologies, and attitudes.
While other shows in late night do try that approach from time-to-time, it would seem that they will be a central tenet of “I Love You, America”.
Silverman might just pull off what Russell Brand’s Brand X ultimately could not if executed correctly.
Sarah Silverman’s Weekly Topical Show “I Love You, America” Premieres on October 12th on Hulu
This is an important date for a few reasons.
One, Sarah Silverman will return to having her own TV show.
Two, talk shows/topical/late night get tipped more in the direction of diversity.
Three, this will be the second recurring topical/talk show (Chelsea on Netflix being the other one) on a major streaming service (unless you want to count Norm MacDonald Live on JASH in as well) with A-list talent attached to host.
These are all important points to keep in mind, but we’re curious to see if Sarah might twist the traditional format of all other talk/topical shows.
If you’re not in LA, there is already plenty of stuff up for auction on eBay.
Following up We Are Miracles, the title to Sarah Silverman’s latest special seems to naturally progress some sort of greater, existential theme as it’s called A Speck of Dust.
That being said, Silverman has brought her signature blue cleverness to a more personal level on this special than she has in the past. A brush with almost dying adds some more gravitas throughout the hour and the closer, in an age where notable closing jokes in specials are becoming increasingly rare, is pretty spectacular.
Also, Sarah made this devilishly mischievous promo for it.
Trump has let the states decide whether they want to defund Planned Parenthood or not. So, now, so many people are stepping up to have the back of Planned Parenthood.
So, to support the cause, a special collector’s box set of vinyl records featuring the comedy of Sarah Silverman, Aparna Nancherla, Jenny Slate, Margaret Cho, Tig Notaro, Janeane Garofalo, Pete Holmes, and Zach Galifianakis in addition to music from some of the musicians around like St. Vincent, Sleater-Kinney, Björk, Matt Berninger, Elliott Smith, Sharon Van Etten, Mitski, Feist, and Chvrches will be released soon. All of the comedy comes from Largo’s archives by the way.
Also, we like that the folks behind this project made this note:
Do we know there’s a joke in the name? We do. We hope the title evokes the rich history of 7-inch vinyl records as a medium for protest music and resistance.
Pre-sale date has yet to be announced, but you can get more info here.
Hulu Orders Topical Weekly Show with Sarah Silverman from Funny Or Die
We’re curious to see where this will go as Sarah Silverman is definitely politically active and will be going for a show that’s balanced inviting other perspectives, beliefs, etc. to have a conversation with her.
We’re guessing that’d go much differently than it does on Real Time with Bill Maher, especially because of the fact that it’s called “I Love You America”. Also, if you’ve ever seen Sarah do crowd work multiple times, you’d notice that her curiosity does indeed lead her down a path of trying to hear people out.
10 episodes have been ordered from Funny or Die and a premiere date has yet to be announced.
At the beginning of the year, San Francisco always has one of the biggest comedy festivals in the world, SF Sketchfest.
Just announced today, SF will be getting another giant comedy festival in the summertime, specifically June 2nd-4th, brought to you by Comedy Central.
The first ever Clusterfest has a gigantic line-up of the sort proportions and depth that Comedy Central can summon. It’s also the flip of most big time music and arts festival in that it’s mostly comedy with a bit of music as opposed to there being a comedy tent and lots and lots and lots of music a la Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, etc. (Note: producers of both those festivals are involved here). See the line-up below or in this glitterbomb filled announcement video here.
Tickets/passes go on sale this Thursday, March 2nd here. They range from $199.50 earlybird pass-$599.50 VIP Pass.
Sarah Silverman Will Now Be Doing a Netflix Comedy Special
Well, Netflix now has quite the stacked deck for 2017. Following from Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, and Amy Schumer,
Sarah Silverman is the latest big name comedian to have done their last comedy special at HBO and is set to do their newest special at Netflix. Silverman will shoot her special soon and Liam Lynch will be directing along with JASH, which she co-founded, producing.
We’re are thoroughly intrigued, given how outspoken Sarah has been in the political spectrum and the times that we’re living in now, what exactly she will do with this new special.
When you think of Michael Bolton doing a TV special for Valentine’s Day, there are a certain set of images that come to mind.
However, when you add Comedy Bang! Bang! and The Lonely Island into the mix, you get a sort of doubling down on the man, the myth, and the legend that is Michael Bolton.
See what CBB and The Lonely Island teaming up with Bolton actually looks like in the trailer for Michael Bolton’s Big, Sexy Valentine’s Day Special.
If that already has you going, you can go watch the whole thing on Netflix right now.
Now that the holidays are officially over and everything is back, you can return to going to comedy shows that are supporting important causes like I Stand with Planned as presented by Lindsay Adams and Ever Mainaird, a comedy benefit for Planned Parenthood.
This latest edition for this week has Sarah Silverman, Sam Jay, Sabrina Jalees, and some surprise guests.
Tickets are $15 and you can (and should) get them here.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, and maps can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com.
Crashing, as you’ll see in this trailer, will be a fun look into what Pete Holmes’ life was like and how desperate it was before he was flying high in his career with an HBO special and series under his belt.
Take note that 2017 might be a really good year for Jermaine Fowler too.
Crashing premieres on Sunday, February 19th at 10:30PM on HBO.
If you’re in Vancouver in February, you would be doing yourself a big favor by going to JFL Northwest.
Just look at that line-up stacked with some of the best from around the country as well as local to Vancouver.
Tickets go on sale at 10AM PST this Friday, December 2nd right here.
Basically, to encourage voter registration, Funny or Die is bringing you the likes of Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts, Kumail Nanjiani, Baron Vaughn, and James Adomian to perform at free shows at college campuses up, down, and all around CA on the Jokes For Votes tour.
Tomorrow’s they’re kicking it off at LA’s very own ELAC (East Los Angeles College) and you can get free tickets here.
(via @dansnierson)
Poster by Luke McGarry
Tenacious D is bringing their awesome one-day comedy and music festival extravaganza back to The Shine Expo Hall & Grounds with yet another stacked line-up as you can see above.
Tickets will go on sale Friday and we’ll be sure to remind you.
If you’re in, around, or near New Orleans, the Hell Yes Fest is an annual comedy happening that you shouldn’t miss.
For this year, Hell Yes Fest is running from Friday, October 7th-Sunday, October 16th and will have:
SARAH SILVERMAN
CAMERON ESPOSITO
FORTUNE FEIMSTER
HASAN MINHAJ
CARLY AQUILINO
RHEA BUTCHER
JAMIE LEE
ANNIE LEDERMAN
CLAYTON ENGLISH
MATT INGEBRETSON
NICK SWARDSON
Get more details and tickets here.
This might be the most fun roast that Comedy Central has put on in recent memory.
Going burn-for-burn on the televised Roast Battle, tournament style over four nights from July 28-31 at 10PM on Comedy Central will be:
Jimmy Carr vs. Christi Chiello
Earl Skakel vs. Tom Ballard
Mark Normand vs. Tony Hinchcliffe
Steve Rannazzisi vs. Sam Morril
Ralphie May vs. Ms. Pat
Matthew Broussard vs. Mike Lawrence
Sarah Tiana vs. Chris Cubas
Olivia Grace vs. K. Trevor Wilson
Anthony Jeselnik, Jimmy Kimmel, Sarah Silverman and David Spade are all set to judge the contests next to Roastmaster General Jeff Ross along with Brian Moses officiating.
So, you might not want to miss out on this.
Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer, Billy Connolly, Garry Shandling, Chris Rock, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Hart, Dave Attell, Frankie Boyle, Omid Djalili, Kirk Fox, Eddie Izzard, Stewart Lee, Paul Provenza, Emo Philips, Bonnie McFarland, Tiffany Haddish, and more offer their take on the artistry and craftsmanship that actually goes into going on stage and doing stand-up comedy in the documentary Dying Laughing.
Directors Lloyd Stanton and Paul Toogood extensively interviewed all of the above and made what might be another documentary that showcases stand-up as being more than just a bunch of clowns rattling off jokes every night.
Watch the teaser here.
The latest installment of Melissa Villasenor’s Daily Itineraries has, for our money, one of the best impressions, in every aspect, of Sarah Silverman.
Just watch how spot on Melissa is, but how she nails Silverman’s entire comedic persona.
Mike O’Brien’s 7 Minutes in Heaven is officially back and the first episode is a doozy.
The guest is Sarah Silverman and she put Mike in more awkward place, in a great way, than a lot of other guests have ever done.
Sarah Silverman, Harmontown, George Wallace, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Barry Katz, P.K. Subban, Carrie Fisher, Sebastian Maniscalco, David Cross, Lewis Black, Jeff Ross presents Roast Battle…
…Howie Mandel, Russell Peters, Oh, Hello starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, Hannibal Buress, Jeremy Hotz, Brian Regan, Maria Bamford, Gad Elmaleh, Jimmy Carr, Russell Howard, Iliza Shlesinger, Kathleen Madigan, Nikki Glaser, Jay Pharoah, Scott Aukerman, Paul F. Tompkins, Mark Watson, Russell Kane, Tiff Stevenson, Rachid Badouri, Dom Irrera, Godfrey, Jessica Kirson, Gina Brillon, Yannis Pappas, Mike Ward, Bobby Slayton, Brad Williams, Ralphie May, Tiffany Haddish, Tony Hale, Timothy Simons, David Mandel, Alan Carr, Tom Green, Janeane Garofalo, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Adam Hills, Tommy Johnagin, Nick Thune, Steve Rannazzisi, Scott Thompson, Kurt Metzger, Big Jay Oakerson, Barry Crimmins, Louie Anderson, Emo Philips, Piff The Magic Dragon, Beth Stelling, Michelle Wolf, Todd Barry, Aparna Nancherla, Jermaine Fowler, Mark Normand, Matt Braunger, Ari Shaffir, Andy Kindler, Anthony Atamanuik, Cameron Esposito, Daniel Sloss, Derek Seguin, Jackie Kashian, James Adomian, Josh Adam Meyers, Katherine Ryan, Corrine Fisher, Krystyna Hutchinson, Stuart Goldsmith, and more!
That’s a good majority of who is performing at the 34th edition of the world renowned JFL Festival in Montreal this year. As you can see, it’s a giant bill of many comedy’s biggest names per usual.
Please note that this doesn’t include the couple dozen or so comedians that will be featured as JFL Montreal’s New Faces of Comedy. Those will not be announced before those live showcases take place.
The Just For Laughs Festival will go from July 13- 31 and you can tickets and/or passes now.
Online network JASH is getting into the comedy festival game by throwing their own Jash Fesht on the weekend of Apr. 1st-3rd at Snapshot Studios in Palm Springs.
As you can see, the line-up is nicely stacked between comedy, music, and folks that blur the line of both disciplines.
Tickets are on sale now for $50-$100.
So far, Tracy Morgan, Sarah Silverman, Reggie Watts, Jenny Slate, Michael Che, Jessica Williams, Chris Gethard, Gabe Liedman, Phoebe Robinson, Max Silvestri, Ian Abramson, and Jo Firestone will be present for The 3rd Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival taking place Jun. 1st-5th in Chicago.
That’s pretty swell if you ask us.
The Onion and A.V. Club have also joined forces with TruTV to present the festival this year, which seems pretty stacked.
Tickets go on sale Wed. Mar. 3rd at 8AM PST right here.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Looks like that Adult Swim model is more popular than ever.
Looking to expand into more comedy-centric or comedy-adjacent programming, The History channel is adding more programming on top of Join or Die with Craig Ferguson.
Night Class will be a late night block, not unlike Adult Swim on Cartoon Network. The block will include Great Minds with Dan Harmon (Dan travels in a time machine to visit history’s greatest minds as played by Jack Black, Aubrey Plaza, Paul F. Tompkins, Thomas Middleditch, Sarah Silverman, and more), Crossroads of History (Elizabeth Shapiro highlights some of the more unbelievable, less talked about moments in history featuring Jack McBrayer, Wayne Knight, Lloyd Ahlquist, and more), and How to Lose the Presidency (a panel revisits how certain candidates committed campaign suicide).
We’ll all actually get to see how Night Class feels next week when it premieres Feb. 25th at 11:30PM.
Anything from Monty Python: Live at the Hollywood Bowl to the brand new variety series hosted by The UCB 4, The UCB Show, to Garth Marenghi’s Dark Place to SNL to The Kids in the Hall to The World of Alan Partridge to…
30 Rock, stand-up from George Carlin, Louis C.K., Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, Hannibal Buress, TJ Miller, Kyle Kinane, Reggie Watts, Sean Patton, Eddie Pepitone, Jon Dore, Bo Burnham, Donald Glover, Garfunkel & Oates, Tim Minchin, and way more.
Really, that’s just scratching the surface. Actually, since this is the beta version, it’s only scratching the surface of scratching the surface of what the beta version of Seeso has got in store for us all like Harmonquest, Hidden America with Jonah Ray, etc..
Oh yeah, we should have mentioned that all of this is free until Jan. 6th, which makes one hell of a Christmas presents from Seeso. Get into all of it here.