Calling the segment “Woke My Ride” a la Pimp My Ride, Hood Adjacent with James Davis retrofitted a car that will be driven by a young black man to counter every single bad thing that has happened from “driving while black”.
Perhaps, it’s even safer than a car with just a great safety rating.
Watch how they pulled it off here.
Tonight, James Davis will start to expound and dissect the duality of his cultural identity that comes from living near the “hood” on his new Comedy Central series Hood Adjacent with James Davis.
Watch how James will do that in this clip where he and his considerably “non-hood” friends try to get “hood pass” in South Central.
James Davis has carved out his own slot at Comedy Central by explaining urban slang in his Comedy Central Snapchat series Swagasaurus. Now, he’s getting a big upgrade with a weekly show that will expand on delving into his “urban point-of-view” starting early next year.
Anyone think this will make up for The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore getting cancelled?
(via Deadline)
You’ll be treated to the stand-up of Cameron Esposito, Eugene Mirman, Janeane Garofalo, Beth Stelling, Aparna Nancherla, Kurt Metzger, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Liza Treyger, the Lucas Brothers, Byron Bowers, Sean Patton, Sam Morril, James Davis, Ian Abramson, Sean Donnelly, Thomas Dale, Ahmed Bharoocha and Emo Philips.
Part of a great comedy cultural exchange between the U.S. and Canada comes around during the JFL Montreal Comedy Festival when JFL also shoots their stand-up showcase series, Funny as Hell.
As past episodes have been streamed plenty on Seeso, Seeso has opted to make the series more known in the States, especially because of its heavy use of U.S. talent, to order a sixth season that’ll offered on NBC’s comedy streaming service.
There will be more names that’ll be added to the series during the festival, but that line-up alone is reason enough to go watch it.
(via Deadline)
Looks like Snapchat isn’t going away anytime soon with Comedy Central renewing four exclusively Snapchat based series and adding nine on top of that.
Already, Comedy Central has these series on the booming social media platform Snapchat:
Quickie with Nikki Glaser
Swag-a-Saurus with James Davis
Like It with Liza Treyger
Hot Takes with Brandon Wardell
They’re renewing all of those and then adding:
–Ian Abramson’s brilliant 7 Mins in Purgatory where comedians perform in an isolated room that has a camera feed shown to a live audience that the comedians can’t hear
-The animated Animal-Lolz which has Joe Zimmerman presenting animal facts
-Animated reenactments of Bert Kreischer’s dreams with Bert’s Dreams
–Caleb Synan failing upward in the world of all those reality cooking shows on Deadliest Chef
–Dollar Pizza sketch series parodying Uber, Guber Pool
–Julio Torres trying to gives us warnings from the future in Messages From the Future
–Hudson Brothers animated series The Lounge that follows friends/non-teachers/co-workers/assholes at a middle school.
–Mike Lawrence unleashing his the fury of his opnions on You’re Wrong
–Emily Candini and Dave Horwitz exposing what happens during commercials on a late night talk show
You might want to join Snapchat if you haven’t already.
(via Variety)
They’ve already got one going with James Davis’ Swag-A-Saurus.
The volatile media of Snapchat continues to grow in popularity and, as such, Comedy Central is getting on board with planning to do more shows soon with the likes of folks that we really dig: Liza Treyger, Nikki Glaser, Michelle Wolf, and Yassir Lester.
We’ll be curious to see if they can drive people to use Snapchat for the first time in order to see these shows.
(via Splitsider)
At the beginning of the year, we reported that the very funny Sean O’Connor and Ian Karmel were brought on board to write for the new Late Late Show hosted by James Corden.
As their premiere is less than a month away, they’ve filled the rest of their writing staff.
So, the writers of The Late Late Show with James Corden are:
Mike Gibbons who is the co-creator of Tosh.0
Sean O’Connor
Ian Karmel
James Davis who recently appeared on Last Call with Carson Daly
Lauren Greenberg
Ben Hoffman from The Ben Show
David Dineen-Porter (host of Party of Four podcast)
Nedaa Sweiss
DJ Javerbaum from The Daily Show
So, this bunch makes for a good, wide mix along with Corden and Reggie Watts that has us even more enticed for their debut.