Self-diagnosing seems to be a pretty routine habit for Marc Maron, though Marc often goes to the extreme of suspecting that he has cancer.
For his episode of This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir, Maron details the various stages of being slowly convinced that he doesn’t have cancer.
The latest story on This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir comes from Barry Rothbart and the events that transpired on his 18th birthday.
At this point, we’ll just say that Barry got taken to Atlantic City by his Dad and after everything that went down, Atlantic City lived up to it’s shady reputation.
The latest story from This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir has Tom Papa showing us why being able to intrude into a child’s life as their parent in 2015 hasn’t been a good thing necessarily.
We’re going to guess that you’d wish your parents had seen this story when you were a kid (or right now if you’re currently a kid).
Ari Shaffir finally gets to the bottom of the only reason you should go camping and how to be a porn connoisseur last night on Conan.
Whether you want to get to learn the answers to those queries or not, you should watch and enjoy his stand-up set here.
Of the This Is Not Happening catalog of stories, Ali Saddiq’s is one of the craziest ones as it involves a prison riot.
So, for the benefit of us all, he shared his experience and taught us what “Mexicans got on boots” means.
When you think of how exactly a second date could go from a somewhat nice time to horribly awry, Will Weldon went through a gauntlet of many things you were probably thinking up.
Of course, as he’s telling this story after the fact on This Is Not Happening, he didn’t get murdered or kidnapped or anything of that nature, but a second date like this one is still spectacularly awful.
For part of a TV show that Bert Kreischer used to star in, he was once forced to fight a bear.
Kreischer tells the whole story, which is actually kind of a love story, for This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir.
This Is Not Happening starts tonight at 12:30! We started it as a live show for 12 people with Maron & Diaz 5 years ago. Tonight it’s on TV!
— Ari Shaffir (@AriShaffir) January 22, 2015
Like the host Ari Shaffir tweeted out, This Is Not Happening had humble beginnings here in LA and has built up to one of the best storytelling shows around to a fantastic web series to, now, Comedy Central’s latest show.
Watch the premiere tonight at 12:30AM on Comedy Central.
When it comes to very long international flights, many people’s preferred method of handling the long period of time in a confined space is drugs.
Ari Shaffir happens to specifically employ weed for that purpose and loves that he can do so now with Gummi Bears.
However, here’s the story of how that didn’t go exactly to plan on This Is Not Happening premiering Thurs. Jan. 22nd on Comedy Central.
Like we said earlier this week, This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir is set to premiere on Comedy Central Jan. 22nd at 12:30AM.
To give you a little taste of what the stories from Bert Kreischer, Marc Maron, Cy Amundson, Bobby Lee, Keegan Michael-Key, Steve Rannazzisi, Cristela Alonzo, Ali Saddiq, Sean O’Connor, Rob Corddry, Will Weldon, Tom Segura, Paul Scheer, Big Jay Oakerson, Barry Rothbart, Jay Larson, Iliza Shlesinger, and more might be like, here’s a trailer.
Also, you get to see how crazy the opening sequence for the show is as well.
The amazing comedian storytelling series This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir is having its TV series premiere on Thurs. Jan. 22nd 12:30AM on Comedy Central.
Shaffir, Keegan Michael-Key, and Bobby Lee are set for the first episode focusing on drug stories, so the premiere should be really good.
Be sure to mark this on your calendars and kick off your weekend next week with this.
(via Laughspin)
Both of Ari Shaffir’s most recent stand-up specials, Passive Aggressive and Paid Regular, will be premiering on network TV on Comedy Central in 2015.
Though Passive Aggressive was shot years ago, it’s still rare for a single comedian to have two specials premiere on the same network in the same year.
Paid Regular will air on Fri. Jan. 16th at midnight and Passive Aggressive will air on Fri. Mar. 13th also at midnight.
Along with the premiere of the storytelling show that Shaffir hosts, This Is Not Happening, Ari should have quite the 2015.
We’re all excited for the return of Broad City, Kroll Show, and the premiere of Larry Wilmore as host of The Nightly Show on Comedy Central.
However, Comedy Central has more up its sleeve, as it announced today, including the premiere of two brand new series, high concept comedy about “the biz" Big Time in Hollywood, FL and the great storytelling series This Is Not Happening Hosted by Ari Shaffir.
This Is Not Happening will make its series premiere with a bunch of the most out there experiences as told by comedians on Thurs. Jan. 22nd at 12:30AM. Big Time in Hollywood, FL will premiere a few months after on Wed. Mar. 25th at 10:30PM.
Set reminders on your mobile devices accordingly.
The return of The Riot LA Comedy Festival is just around the corner on Jan. 16th-18th, 2015 and with a good portion of the line-up announced, it’s something to definitely look forward to after this whole holiday season.
Norm MacDonald, Hari Kondabolu, Nick Turner, Michelle Wolf, Sean Patton, Karen Kilgariff, Roast Battle, Matt Braunger, Brendon Walsh, Billy Wayne Davis, Dave Hill, Dan Soder, Sam Simmons, Kurt Braunohler, God Damn Comedy Jam, Chris Fairbanks, Baron Vaughn, Brew Haha, Al Madrigal, With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus, Jamie Lee, Beth Stelling, Andy Kindler, Sean O’Connor, This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir, Nate Bargatze, Drennon Davis, Comedy Living Room, Dave Anthony, Happy Contest TIme, The Indoor Kids, Randy Liedtke, Jim Hamilton, Ashley Barnhill, Marilyn Bamford Collective, Ahmed Bharoocha, Barry Rothbart, and more are coming to a few blocks on Main St., in Downtown LA.
So, get your festival passes now for $90 while you can.
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.
Earlier this year, we all got the great news that CC:Studios’ This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir web series graduated to an actual TV series to air on Comedy Central.
Well, the TV series is going to tape starting next month here in LA and you can free tickets to the taping so long as you get them as soon as you can. There will be six shows total: Tues. Sept. 9th (6:30PM/9PM), Mon. Sept. 15th (6:30PM/9PM), and Tues. Sept. 16th (6:30PM/9PM).
We highly recommend not missing out on this so you can catch story like this, this, or this live.
Comedy Central Picks Up This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir to TV Series
Here’s another great case of where a great web series that has cultivated quite a following gets picked up to air on actual TV. The darkly humorous storytelling show This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir has done two great seasons at CC:Studios and now will be a full fledged TV show.
Not only are we looking forward to when this premieres on TV, but we’re excited on how Comedy Central has been expanding their branding over the last couple of years.
Like many of us, Kumail Nanjiani wanted so badly to be cool and it would devastate him any set back he encountered from being considered cool.
Watch his story of “cool betrayal” in this latest episode of CC:Studios’ This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir.
The latest episode of This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir involves four comedians that all are in the room when this was taped and all subsequently took the stage: Steve Rannazzisi, Ari Shaffir, Bobby Lee, and Natasha Leggero.
The story follows a crazy fight that broke out at The Comedy Store, which isn’t that unusual for The Comedy Store, but they all have amazingly made up and agreed on what happened.
Watch and see what the hell happened here.
Moshe Kasher is featured in this latest episode of CC:Studios This It Not Happening with Ari Shaffir and tells the story of he had to deal with an anti-semitic audience member. Spoiler alert (as you can see from Moshe telling the story): the anti-semite lost.
Watch to see the whole story here.
If the hilarious Kurt Braunohler had to get in one bar fight, it might be with a DJ that’s provoked by Kurt scream spelling and ending up in something much weirder than traditional fighting.
Oh wait, he did get one such bar fight and it’s the only one he’s ever been in. See what exactly happened on this episode of This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir.
The news that Chill.com is done with producing comedy specials to distribute broke a few weeks ago, but there’s still time before they are completely finished with them.
This means that if you bought Maria Bamford’s Special Special Special, Ari Shaffir’s Passive Aggressive, or Tom Rhodes’ light sweet crude, then you have until Dec. 15th to download them (if you haven’t already for some reason).
We’re sure that these will pop elsewhere soon enough, but for now, you’ve been warned to claim them while you can.
CC:Studios’ This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir is finally back and in this latest batch of episodes, they have fight stories, which brings Big Jay Oakerson to share the story of one of the biggest fights he’s ever seen.
By big, we do not mean a title fight or two rivals gangs fighting each other, but rather something more literal. Watch it here.
CC:Studios Renews Three Series/Adds Six New Series
We’ve already told you about The Walsh Brothers Great & Secret Comedy Show and This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir returning, but we’re thrilled to see that the likes of Kurt Braunohler, Charlotte Newhouse & Jillian Bell, and more get web series pick ups.
In case you didn’t know, Comedy Central’s CC:Studios has a lot of really hysterical, innovative stuff going on you should be watching.
This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir Season 2 Premieres Next Week
One of the best storytelling web series, This Is Not Happening with Ari Shaffir, returns for a second season starting next Tues. Nov. 5th and releasing episodes on Tuesdays after that at CC:Studios. There will be almost unbelievable stories (almost because they actually happened) from Kurt Braunohler, Fortune Feimster, Kumail Nanjiani, Trevor Moore, Moshe Kasher, Steve Rannazzisi, and more.
If you have no idea what we’re talking about, please familiarize yourself with season 1 that includes stories of TJ Miller almost dying from a brain hemorrhage and Sean Patton getting gay bashed as a straight man.