In all of our anticipation for the upcoming Garfunkel & Oates series on IFC, IFC very nicely has put up a fun, full episode for our enjoyment that you can watch right now.
See what goes on beyond the songs of Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci in addition to their songs right here. There are also some surprise cameos from TJ Miller, Nick Thune, and more.
Oh, and the series premiere is on Aug. 7th at 10PM on IFC.
While performing in Omaha, T.J. Miller stop by the local morning news to promote his shows and also continue his informal tour of doing the most amazing things that he can get away with.
This time, T.J. gets as wet as he can. Watch it all really happen here.
Armed with a microphone and the headlight switch, TJ Miller, whose also in Transformers: Age of Extinction, sat in a parked car and tricked people walking by that a real life Transformer was in their presence.
Of course, TJ isn’t your typical Transformer. Watch it here.
Denver’s High Plains Comedy Festival Announces a Delightful 2014 Line-up
On the weekend of Aug. 22nd & 23rd, Denver is having, once again, it’s awesome comedy festival known as High Plains. This year, so far, they have:
Pete Holmes, TJ Miller, Kumail Nanjiani, Amber Tozer, Adam Cayton-Holland, Kate Berlant, Beth Stelling, Bryan Cook, Cameron Esposito, Andrew Orvedahl, Howard Kremer, Matt Knudsen, Ben Roy, Sean Patton, Ian Douglas Terry, Andy Juett, Jonah Ray, The Walsh Brothers, Jared Logan, Matt Ingebretson, Chris Thayer, John Roy, Nate Bargatze, Dan Soder, Ian Karmel, Ben Kronberg, Andy Haynes, Billy Wayne Davis, Chris Fairbanks, Eugene Cordero, Baron Vaughn, Mike O’Connell, and Emily Gordon.
That sounds like a pretty flawless line-up to us. Maybe get your tickets now?
I Am Road Comic will be the follow up to Jordan Brady’s documentary I Am Comic that follows the travels of comedians performing on what is commonly referred to as “the road” with all of its peaks and valleys.
Tales and words of wisdom will come from comedy road veterans such as Maria Bamford, Doug Benson, Wayne Federman, Pete Holmes, Kyle Kinane, TJ Miller, Marc Maron, Jen Kirkman, Judah Friedlander, Nikki Glaser, Tom Rhodes, W. Kamau Bell, Traci Skene, Auggie Smith, Alysia Wood, and more.
TJ Miller stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live last night and showed his wonderful hair and expressed his joy that he is finally on a show, Silicon Valley, that a network didn’t immediately ax.
The Wayne Federman International Film Festival Returns For Its 3rd Year This Week
Wayne Federman’s International Film Festival, an annual collection of films screened and hosted by comedians such as TJ Miller, Taylor Negron, Jimmy Pardo, Doug Benson and more is back at Cinefamily at The Silent Movie Theatre this coming weekend.
Don’t miss out on the films that were undoubtedly big influences in their lives such as W.C. Fields’ The Bank Dick did on TJ Miller.
If you’ve wondered what TJ Miller hosting a late night talk show sans a blue demon costume would be like, wonder no more. Miller filled in for Chelsea Handler on Chelsea Lately last night and definitely brought his wonderfully absurd comedic sensibilities with him.
Watch him open the show and interview Whiz Khalifa and make a case for being a host of a certain 11:30PM spot that will open up next year at Comedy Central should TJ be up for such a thing.
Comedy Line-up for Bonnaroo 2014
Bonnaroo is not too far from now, specifically June 12-15th, and their comedy line-up is shaping up quite nicely.
TJ Miller, Hannibal Buress, Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious, Taran Killam, Rory Scovel, Neal Brennan, Seth Herzog, Emily Heller, and many more to be announced are set for Manchester, TN and should not be missed if you’re planning on going.
The Grawlix, one of Denver’s best comedy shows, just celebrated their 3 year anniversary and, in honor of that, put out a compilation album Best of the Grawlix 2013.
Not only does it feature the great comedic stylings of The Grawlix themselves (Adam Cayton-Holland, Ben Roy, and Andrew Orvedahl), but also features performances from other people you probably love like TJ Miller, The Sklar Brothers, Brent Weinbach, Jonah Ray, Beth Stelling, Chris Garcia, John Roy, and more.
As if that wasn’t enough, this album is also free to download meaning you can legally download it for free instead of doing it the shady way. So, get to listening to The Best of The Grawlix 2013 right now.
You will have to wait until Sun. April 6th for the premiere of Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley with Thomas Middleditch, TJ Miller, Martin Starr, Kumail Nanjiani, and Zach Woods.
For now, here’s the trailer that you should watch now even you’ll be waiting awhile afterwards for the series premiere.
SXSW Comedy Announces 2014 Lineup Has Everyone From Bill Cosby to The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail
Bill Cosby, Pete Holmes, Greg Proops, Tim Meadows, TJ Miller, Nate Bargatze, James Adomian, Fred Armisen, Karen Kilgariff, Matt Besser, Scott Aukerman, Jerrod Carmichael, Todd Barry, Chris Gethard, Eugene Mirman Byron Bowers, Good Neighbor, Drennon Davis and The Imaginary Radio Program, The Grawlix, Jake Weisman, ASSSSCAT, Midnight Run with Andy Haynes, Comedy Living Room, The Meltdown with Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani and so many more are all coming down to Austin, TX in Mar. 8th-15th for SXSW.
You did read that awesome line up that includes Bill Cosby is coming to SXSW, right? Good, get your tickets/passes now.
First Teaser of Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley Coming to HBO
We’ve been waiting to see anything from the satirical take on the titular Silicon Valley from Mike Judge premiering in early April on HBO.
Finally, there is a teaser trailer that’s pretty great as well as featuring the awesome cast of Kumail Nanjiani, Martin Starr, Thomas Middleditch, Josh Brener, and T.J. Miller.
It’s short, but you’ll definitely be more up for April after seeing it. Watch it at the link.
TJ Miller has recently been making a habit of doing bizarre and really funny things doing morning TV interviews wherever he’s playing that weekend like in Edmonton, Canada and we sincerely hope he keeps it up. It’s pretty damn hysterical, especially for how awkward the hosts get.
Watch his latest one in Kansas City here.
It’s been years since the great behind the mic documentary I Am Comic from director and comedian Jordan Brady; three years in fact. And now, after all that time, Brady is coming out with the follow up to I Am Comic in I Am Road Comic following the tales and travels of comedians that do the road and perform wherever they can get paid to talk into a microphone and discovering ultimately why they do it.
Watch this teaser with TJ Miller, Jen Kirkman, Judah Friedlander, and Doug Benson.
Having seen TJ Miller several times, we know that he’s an undeniable comedic force wherever he goes.
As an example, here’s one of our favorite sets of his from The Super Serious Show in January of last year where TJ checked himself with a “riffing leash” then when on to riff on a ‘coked up Thomas Edison".
CC:Studios has started off another great web series in This Is Not Happening featuring comedians telling stories of things going more than a little wrong. Hosted by Ari Shaffir, they’re set to come out every Tuesday, which you should look forward to based of the first episode with TJ Miller and his night of seizures and brain hemorrhaging.
Watch in simultaneous laughter, shock, and awe now.
It’s sort of odd to us that Set List: The Improvised Stand Up Show was born in LA and then toured the world to become a TV show in the UK and Australia and is only now distributed to the US, but we’re glad that it finally happened thanks to the Nerdist YouTube Channel.
Watch the first three episodes with TJ MIller, Glenn Wool, and Bob Odenkirk.
Gorburger/TJ Miller in a blue demon suit has on hip hop duo MellowHype and finds that, even though Gorburger has violently taken over the studio, the carpeting on the set is sacred.
Watch now at the Warner Sound.
Apparently, taking over a Japanese talk show set to host his own show wasn’t enough for TJ Miller’s blue demon Gorburger. He’s now expanded to having his own free zine that can and really should pick up at Amoeba Records in Hollywood.
Oh, you should be watching The Gorburger Show where TJ Miller plays a blue demon that has violently taken over a talk show and interviews recording artists, in case that wasn’t obvious in this post.
Your favorite talk show that was hijacked by a monster voiced by TJ Miller is back. The hysterically chaotic Gorburger Show will come back next Monday March 11th.
Watch the trailer to get a sneak peek of the madness to ensue that will include Henry Rollins, Jack Black, and more.
Goodwin Games Will Be Premiering on Fox in May
We thought that The Goodwin Games wasn’t going anywhere because we hadn’t heard any news for quite some time, but it turns out TJ Miller will be regularly on network television everyone. Thank goodness.
1) Comedy on shelves today with the Sklar Brothers’ “Hendersons and Daughters”, Jamie Kilstein’s “Libel, Slander, and Sedition”, TJ Miller’s “The Extended Play E.P.” (which also feat. Brandon Johnson, Pete Holmes, and more), and Conan Can’t Stop.
2) Good signs from the “TIFF front”, Bobcat Goldthwait’s God Bless America does quite well.
3) The Midnight Show has very important PSA for the next time you’re speeding…
4) Don’t miss Baron Vaughn appearing on Conan tonight (TBS 11PM).
5) And the return of Lewis Black came to be…
6) There’s something called Comedy Royal and it looks pretty amazing… [via CNU]
7) Puddin’-“Lust” w/guest Megan Amram
8) COMEDY CRAWL
The Moth @ Busby’s East 7PM $8
Performance Anxiety @ The Pleasure Chest 8PM FREE
Bill Burr @ Largo at the Coronet Theatre 8PM/10PM $20
Fortune Feimster & Michael Palascak @ Irvine Improv 8PM $15/2 item min.
The 4 & 20 @ All Star Lanes 8PM FREE
Comedy Bang Bang @ UCB Theatre 8:30PM $5 (stand by only)
Maximum Exposure @ Max Steiner’s 9PM FREE
Blamblamblam @ R-Bar 9PM FREE
Do You Think You’re Funny? @ Barbara Morrison Performing Arts Center 9PM
Holy Fuck @ Downtown Independent Theater 9PM FREE
Public School Stories @ M Bar 9PM No cover/$10 min.
9) OPEN MIC RUN
THE MOTH @ BUSBY’S EAST 5364 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA/open mic for stories/Doors at 7PM/Starts 7:30PM/$8 cover/10 spots only picked by lottery
LIBRARY A COFFEE HOUSE 3418 E. Broadway, Long Beach, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
WESTWOOD BREW CO 1097 Glendon Ave., Westwood, CA/Sign-up 7:30PM/Starts 8PM/lottery/first come, first served/no purchase necessary
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 8PM/first come, first served/$4 min.
BIG FISH 5230 San Fernando Blvd., Glendale, CA/Sign-up 8:30PM/Starts 9PM/5 min. spots/Stops 10PM for booked show
WESTSIDE COMEDY THEATER 1323-A 3rd St., Santa Monica, CA (in alley between 3rd St. Promenade and 4th St.)/Sign-up 9:45PM/Starts 10PM/lottery/$1 cover
MAX STEINER’S 2500 E. Anaheim St., Long Beach, CA/Starts 10PM after booked show/sign-up is first come, first served
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/bottled water and coffee provided
10) LA Weekly featured the Top 5 most annoying billboards and Whitney wasn’t on the list. I call shenanigans.
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1) Happy 4th of July Everybody!!! May you celebrate your nation’s history like this… (they didn’t have 4th of July one, sorry)
Drunk History Vol. 5 w/ Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle & Zooey Deschanel from Will Ferrell
2) Are You Getting the Maximum Value Out of Your Material via Connected Comedy-I wish Louis CK’s technology bit would have been used as an example instead of Anjelah Johnson, but some good points are made.
3) TJ Miller doing crowd work at a kid’s show.
5) COMEDY CRAWL-No shows worth going to tonight. Save your energy for tomorrow…
6) OPEN MIC RUN
SAL’S COMEDY HOLE 7356 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, CA/Starts 6PM/$4 min./first come, first served
TRIBAL CAFE 1651 W. Temple St., Los Angeles, CA/Starts 8PM/no purchase necessary/first come, first served
7) Anyone feel like they’re should be a post July 4th Resolution? Anyone keeping up New Year’s Resolution up to this point? Yeah, I think they’re stupid to, especially when BBQ tastes soooooo good.
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