Season 4 of Louie Premieres Tonight on FX
We know the NBA Playoffs are still underway, but if the bar you’re at isn’t showing basketball, they should be showing the premiere of the brand new season of Louis C.K.’s Louie tonight on FX at 10PM. If you’re at home, you should definitely be watching Louie with two episodes playing back to back.
You’ll still be able to catch the second half of the game afterwards.
Adult Swim Greenlights Live-Action/Rotoscope Comedy Pilot From John Krasinski
Not only are we excited to hear that John Krasinski will be producing a comedy pilot for Adult Swim entitled Dream Corp LLC, but the idea itself sounds pretty amazing. Just from the description, there seems to be elements of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inception, and Rick and Morty that will all be put through the Adult Swim blender for this pilot.
Thus, Dream Corp LLC is yet another pilot this season we hope gets picked up just so we can all see what they came up with.
Team Coco To Launch Comedy Label
Conan O’Brien has done many great things under the umbrella of his Conaco and Team Coco outside of his late night talk show. The latest one is a comedy label that will release comedian projects such as Ian Edwards’ first comedy album 100% Half Assed.
We’re already excited for the announcement and that they’ll be releasing an album from the hilarious Ian Edwards. So, naturally we can’t wait to see what else they have in store for us all.
Hulu’s ‘The Hotwives of Orlando’ Premieres July 15
The next satirical reality show a la Burning Love seems like it will be Hotwives of Orlando. That’s why we’re happy to hear that it now has a premiere date.
July 15th on Hulu, we’ll get to see Casey Wilson, Kristen Schaal, Angela Kinsey, Andrea Savage, Tymberlee Hill, Danielle Schneider, Joey McIntyre, Stephen Tobolowsky, Weird Al Yankovic, Matt Besser, Jerry Minor, and more parody the Real Housewives franchise so well that it’s almost seems like the real thing.
IFC Takes a Tour of Marc Maron’s Garage
Leading up to the season premiere of Maron coming this Thurs. May 8th 10PM on IFC, here’s a nice little web series where Marc shows off his garage which includes a lot of fan art, both good and confusing.
Give it all a watch at the link.
Disney Launching Storytellers Initiative to Find and Develop Live Action Comedy Pilot
Disney is reaching out for submissions to find a brand new ideas for a live action comedy series. This brand new Disney Channel Storytellers is an 20 week compensated program that will develop a project for pilot consideration.
Do note that you must have representation already and live in LA for the program. Still, if you can get into this, it will be a pretty great opportunity and a chance for something really original to make it to The Disney Channel.
‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ Touring on Queen Mary 2 with Stars and Wes Anderson
An exclusive, one-off tour of The Grand Budapest Hotel will be taking place on Cunard Line’s Queen Mary 2 next month. Wes Anderson as well as Tilda Swinton and Jason Schwartzman will be joining in a Q&A session after a screening of the film.
As they sail across the Atlantic from NYC to London, we’re curious if this specific cruise will be promoted as going to Zubrowka.
Eddie Murphy Returning as Axel Foley in New ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ in 2016
Paramount has set Mar. 2016 as the release date, for now, of a brand new Beverly Hills Cop movie. This will be the fourth movie in the franchise and will have spanned over 30 years.
Whatever your initial knee-jerk reaction to this news, we should be all glad that Eddie Murphy is, once again, playing Axel Foley.
Norm MacDonald Fans Push For #LateLateNormNorm
If you follow Norm MacDonald on Twitter (and you should), you might have noticed last night that there was a flurry of tweets and RTs of the hashtag #LateLateNormNorm (possibly started by Ben Hoffman) in a digital grassroots move to put Norm’s hat in the ring to replace Ferguson.
So far, we haven’t seen anything like that for any of the other names that have been rumored to be in the running for The Late Late Show. At this point, the gig really still could go to a wide range of folks, but it’s definitely fun to imagine Norm MacDonald hosting late night for all the times he was absolutely hysterical as a guest.
Also, that hashtag is pretty catchy.
Comedy Central Airing The Improv: 50 Years Behind The Brick Wall
Tonight at midnight, Comedy Central will have a TV special following the the timeline of the legendary Improv starting all the way back in the early sixties in Hell’s Kitchen.
The Improv: 50 Years Behind The Brick Wall will feature stories from Jerry Seinfeld, Jimmy Fallon, Judd Apatow, and more about the Improv and how it influenced them.
Portlandia’s Jonathan Krisel To Direct Louis C.K./Zach Galifianakis FX Pilot
All three of those names together, Louis C.K., Zach Galifianakis, and Jonathan Krisel, should make for one hell of a great pilot.
Let’s hope this gets picked up soon just so we can see what they came up with.
It has been stated that CBS will not make any decision until after they upfront presentation on how will take Craig Ferguson’s place at The Late Late Show when he leaves at the end of the year.
However, Michael Ian Black, Jason Jones, Neil Patrick Harris, Aisha Tyler, John Hodgman, Joel McHale, and Amy Schumer are all in rumored to be in consideration for the job.
Given how quickly they got Colbert to replace Letterman, we’d guess that CBS will have someone chosen by the end of May.
SyFy Orders First Digital Comedy Series ‘Underlings’
It’s a big week for comedy digital/web series as SyFy is now joining in on the action. Underlings will be the first comedy web series for SyFy following the workplace happenings of a criminal organization.
A teaser trailer is up at the link and you’ll see for yourself, even evil masterminds need someone to make copies and get coffee.
Adult Swim Renews “Children’s Hospital” For Sixth Season
Considering how damn funny Children’s Hospital is and the fact that it’s one of Adult Swim’s only shows to win an Emmy, we’re glad to see that they are very deservedly getting a sixth season.
Hopefully, they’ll hit syndication very soon.
Crackle Orders Comedy Web Series ‘Tightrope’ From Bryan Cranston
Get ready for Bryan Cranston coming back to comedy in a new web series at Crackle where there, apparently, will a modern day person input into a classic detective series.
Whatever this series called Tightrope ends up being, it sure sounds pretty great now and thus you should watch out for it.
Eddie Pepitone Taping His First Comedy Special at The Bell House in June
The absolutely hysterical Eddie Pepitone will be taping his very first comedy special in June in Brooklyn. Specifically, he’ll be doing two shows, Jun. 3rd and 4th, at The Bell House.
WIth a documentary on him and how damn funny he is, The Bitter Buddha, already made, Pepitone is long overdue for his own special and you should absolutely not miss this if you’re anywhere near NYC at the beginning of June.
The Onion Launching Clickhole.com To Stick It to BuzzFeed and Upworthy
Well, The Onion is laying down a new gauntlet by launching Clickhole.com to make fun of the listicles and aspirational, dramatic headlines that both Buzzfeed and Upworthy have made themselves famous for on the Internet.
Already, there’s a pretty great primer for Clickhole.com right now before it’s launch in June. We’re really curious how or if Buzzfeed and Upworthy will go toe-to-toe with them.
Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” Getting Four More Seasons
This means that there will currently be 9 seasons of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Jerry Seinfeld. Seasons 4 and 5 have already been ordered before this announcement came through, which has us curious if Seinfeld has something big in store over the next several episodes.
Whatever it is, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee probably now stands as one of the most successful web series of all time.
Starz Orders 2 Seasons of Jonathan Ames-Seth MacFarlane Comedy ‘Blunt Talk’ Starring Patrick Stewart
Starz is slowly, but surely building up their comedy slate. Having two seasons of a live action comedy created by Jonathan Ames of Bored to Death fame and Seth MacFarlane executive producing is a good start.
An even better start is having that series star Patrick Stewart as an almost Ron Burgundy-esque character. With everything that this series, Blunt Talk, has going for it, it will be highly anticipated all the way until its 2015 premiere.
Watch Trailer for Meta Rom Com “They Came Together” with Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler
For those of you tired of the rom com genre being so repetitive that merely A-list stars take turns having roles in different locales where two “unlikely” people fall in love, then David Wain and Michael Showalter’s They Came Together starring Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler might just be for you.
Just watch the trailer over at Buzzfeed (in the link above) and see for yourself. They Came Together is coming out on Jun. 27th, the same day as Transformers: Age of Extinction, but we can only hope that a stereotypical rom com also comes out on the same date.
Jim Gaffigan’s Obsessed Charting on iTunes Overall
When it comes to comedy albums, rare is the occasion that one sells so well that it can compete with music albums. Of course, Jim Gaffigan is one such exceptional comedian with a fantastic new special/album that is currently charting on the overall iTunes charts as far as #4.
Having heard and seen how great Obsessed really is, we’re not surprised. Get your copy at iTunes (album/special) and have it shoot up the charts even more.
Yahoo Orders ‘Other Space’ Web Series From Paul Feig
After a decade of doing features and doing the occasional producing and directing on various TV shows, Paul Feig is getting his own show once again. This time it will be through Yahoo, though, you should note that it will still be a half hour comedy and, from the sound of it, it might be Freaks and Geeks set in another galaxy.
Look for 8 episodes of Other Space to drop later this year or early in 2015.
Craig Ferguson Leaving The Late Late Show in December
In the wake of Stephen Colbert being set to take over The Late Show from David Letterman at some point next year, Craig Ferguson has opted against any sort of renewal as a host of The Late Late Show.
There is no word on a replacement, but we think that it could really go to anyone, an idea that CBS should keep in mind, given that Ferguson was definitely a roll of the die by CBS when he took The Late Late Show from Craig Kilborn.
Channel 101’s April Edition Is Here
The latest installment of Channel 101 for Apr. 2014 is here featuring long time fan favorite Car-Jumper, Fishbowls Are Definitely My Thing, Skateboard Cop, and more that may or may not be great reinventions of the police procedural.
Watch it all (as well as the rest of Channel 101) at the link.
Max Silvestri’s Debut Comedy Album “King Piglet” Coming Out in June
More good AST Records news keeps coming our way as they just wrapped the taping of Paul Danke’s debut comedy album this weekend and have just now announced that they’ll be releasing the very funny Max Silvestri’s debut comedy album.
Silvestri’s King Piglet is set for release on June 10th and suggest you get yourself a copy then.