David Cross Cast as Dead Boss on Fox’s ‘Dead Boss’ Pilot
As David Cross has played Todd Margaret in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret that was set in the UK, he’ll almost do the flip of that as he will play a horrible boss that’s mysteriously dead in the U.S. (based off a series in the UK of the same name).
Still, the prospect of seeing David Cross back on network TV is one were excited for.
Pre-Order Hannibal Buress’ “Live From Chicago” Coming Out Apr. 1st
Hannibal Buress’ latest and highly anticipated comedy special Live From Chicago is only two weeks away from its release on Apr. 1st.
You know you’re going to get it, so just pre-order it at iTunes (click the link above) already.
Along with “Drunk History”, Season 2 of “Nathan For You” Premieres Jun. 24th
Tuesdays this Summer are going to be great on Comedy Central as you’ll get to watch Drunk History and Nathan For You in the same evening. Jun. 24th sees the season 2 premieres of Nathan For You and Drunk History as was announced yesterday.
So just go ahead and block off Tuesday nights this Summer for this.
Craig Ferguson and Drew Carey Set to Swap Hosting Gigs for April Fool’s Day
The prospect of Craig Ferguson hosting The Price Is Right and Drew Carey doing a night of The Late Late Show, especially after their time together on The Drew Carey Show, will undoubtedly be a good time.
However, as this is supposed to be part of April Fool’s Day “festivities”, we are tempted to suspect that there’s more to this than just swapping.
Check Out Preview of The Portlandia Activity Book To Be Released Mar. 18th
Coupled with the new season of Portlandia, which you should definitely be watching every Thurs. 10PM on IFC, is their new Portlandia Activity Book featuring plenty of conversation card games, non-normative coloring book, etc.
Team Coco has an exclusive preview, after which, you can/should pre-order/order a copy of the Portlandia Activity Book scheduled for release tomorrow Mar. 18th.
Natasha Leggero to Host This Year’s Shorty Awards
The Shorty Awards, the awards ceremony dedicated to social media, made a great pick for their host this year in Natasha Leggero.
Having kicked off this year with not apologizing over a joke during a New Year’s Eve special, she’s a prime candidate to host an awards show that has to deal with the Internet.
Drunk History Season 2 Premiering This June
You’re favorite history show as told by people who are absolutely hammered, then carefully reenacted word-for-word, detail-for-detail by professional actors is finally coming back this Summer.
Season 2 of Drunk History is set for 30 new stories colorfully told in almost accurate detail on June 24th on Comedy Central. How fitting of an announcement this is on St. Patrick’s Day.
Greg Proops’ Live at Musso and Frank Now on Pre-Order
As Chill.com went under last year, many comedy specials had to find new homes. One of those was the amazing Greg Proops’ Live at Musso and Frank, taped live at famed Hollywood dining establishment Musso and Frank Grill.
Proops’ special now lives on his own site and you can pre-order it for $4.99, which you should absolutely do.
Emo Phillips and Patton Oswalt Coming to This Year’s Limestone Comedy Festival
From May 29th-31st, Bloomington, IN will have another fantastic weekend of comedy from The Limestone Comedy Festival, especially since Emo Phillips and Patton Oswalt are now joining in along with Jimmy Pardo, Cristela Alonzo, Erin Foley, Carmen Lynch, Ryan Singer, and more!
Get your tickets/passes here.
Watch Tom Segura’s Comedy Special ‘Completely Normal’ Now on Netflix
Whether you have plenty of time scheduled for catching up on your Netflix queue or not, please make the hysterical Tom Segura’s new comedy special Completely Normal something you watch today.
Even if you’re not caught up on House of Cards and True Detective, you should probably balance watching incredibly tense dramas out with a comedy special or two.
You might have heard that comedian David Brenner, noted for his record number of appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and even guest hosting from time to time (only a select few including David Steinberg can say that), just passed away after a battle with cancer at the age of 78. May his soul rest in peace after a long wondrous comedy career.
Even after his passing, reading the first “statement” on his website is pretty great. Read it at the link.
Lee Camp Taping Comedy Special March 16th in NYC
You might have seen Lee Camp pull off doing stand up at Occupy Wall Street, but now you’ll get a chance, if you’re in NYC, to see him tape a comedy special tomorrow night 3/16 and on Mon. 3/17 at Bowery Electric.
Don’t miss out if you’re doing anything besides drinking all during this St. Patrick’s Day Weekend.
Comedy Central Orders 10 Episodes of Hannibal Buress Series Unemployable-UPDATE: Not Yet
UPDATE: Comedy Central has not yet made a decision on Hannibal Buress’ pilot.
That’s right, Hannibal Buress is getting his own TV show on Comedy Central. From his amazing stand-up to him crushing his role on Broad City, we’d say it’s about time for this happen.
We can only hope that we get to see Unemployable ASAP.
Todd Barry’s Crowd Work Tour Comedy Special Out Mar. 22nd
Next week, Todd Barry will release his comedy special cut up from his tour where he did nothing but crowd work, appropriately titled Todd Barry’s Crowd Work Tour. The concept is simple, but amazing as we saw one night at Largo months ago. Also, note that a modern master at catching lightning in a bottle, Lance Bangs, directed it.
So, make sure you go to LouisCK.com on Mar. 22nd to pick up for, you guessed it, $5.
Aubrey Plaza Joins Hal Hartley’s ‘Ned Rifle’
In this part of Hal Hartley’s dark comedy trilogy, Aubrey Plaza is added to the returning cast from Henry Fool and Fay Grim of Thomas Jay Ryan, Parker Posey, Liam Aiken, and James Urbaniak.
The teaser/trailer/anything for this should be pretty awesome.
Rick and Morty’s First Episode of Season Two on Instagram
Not unlike It’s a Disaster being released on Vine, Adult Swim’s awesome animated series Rick and Morty just uploaded it’s whole first episode in snippets on Instagram.
If that’s too much for you, just watch Rick and Morty in its full length version on Adult Swim on Mondays at 10:30PM.
Thomas Lennon to Star Opposite Matthew Perry in CBS’ ‘Odd Couple’
The amazing Thomas Lennon could be back on network TV very soon.
It’s been almost no time at all since Sean Saves The World got the ax and he already cast to star opposite Matthew Perry in an Odd Couple reboot pilot over at CBS.
Louie Returns May 5 with Two Episodes a Week
The wait is almost over and it’s even going to be made better. Of course, we mean in reference to the headline. After over a year and half, Louis CK‘s Louie is returning to TV for its fourth season and you’ll get back-to-back episodes each week almost two months straight.
So make several reminders for this for May 5th 10PM on FXx.
2014 Bridgetown Comedy Festival Line-up Announced
Matt Braunger, Kumail Nanjiani, Dan Harmon, Morgan Murphy, Wil Anderson, Sean Patton, Jonah Ray, Jamie Lee, Nate Bargatze, Julian McCullough, Andres du Bouchet, Aparna Nancherla, Ron Funches, Baron Vaughn, Jon Daly, Brendon Walsh, Adrienne Iapalucci, Hari Kondabolu, Ian Karmel, Sean O’Connor, Ahmed Bharoocha, Jay Larson, Sim Simmons, Hampton Yount, Auggie Smith, Dave Stone, Kevin Avery, Kristine Levine, Byron Bowers, Mike Lebovitz, Barbara Holm, Tony Sam, Nick Cobb, Jesse Elias Ryan Singer, Eliza Skinner, and way, way, way more hilarious folks will be in Portland, OR for The Bridgetown Comedy Festival this year May 8th-May 11th.
Pretty nice, huh? Maybe you should get your passes ASAP then.
Tom Segura New Comedy Special ‘Completely Normal’ Will Be on Netflix Mar. 15th
The damn funny Tom Segura is coming out with a comedy special Completely Normal on Netflix this Sat., which will be the thing you binge watch since True Detective is over because, as said above, Tom is damn funny.
If you can’t wait two days for this, you can, at the very least pre-order the album version on iTunes.
Passes and Tickets Now on Sale for The 3rd Annual LA Podcast Festival
The line-up isn’t announced yet, but The LA Podcast Festival is putting passes and tickets up for sale now because lots of folks come to this thing.
In fact, many of them come from around the globe for this thing, thus needing ample time to plan, which means you might want to snag some passes early on.
Barry Rothbart Joining Cast of NBC Comedy Pilot ‘Love Is Relative’
You might have caught a cameo of the very funny Barry Rothbart in The Wolf of Wall Street, but we know might just have a chance to see him on network television as he is set to star in a NBC sitcom pilot Love Is Relative.
It being a network sitcom, please note that it probably won’t be anywhere near as debaucherous as Wolf of Wall Street, but Barry will still probably be great in it.
Dave Ross Is Going on Nationwide Tour
This spring, Dave Ross is coming to a city near you to perform stand-up. Seriously, he’s playing 42 different cities. You’re probably near one of them, so you’ll probably have a chance to see him from April through to the end of May and we highly recommend doing that because Dave is pretty damn funny.
For you Angelenos, you’ll be happy to know he’s also headlining the Hollywood Improv at the end of it.
Comedy Central Expanding Key & Peele Episode Order, Develops Animated Spinoff
Key & Peele has seemingly filled that staple sketch show that Comedy Central has been looking for after Chappelle’s Show came to an abrupt end. They’ve hit a nice intersection in being wildly popular online, but as well as a TV series.
So, very wisely, Comedy Central is giving them an actual full season order of 22 episodes and is working on an animated spin-off of Vandaveon & Mike.
A Stage Production of ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ Intended For Broadway in the Works
Now, producers from Shelton Street Theatrical now intend to make a stage production of A Confederacy of Dunces in the not so distant future. We can only hope that it becomes a big hit and makes its way West to LA.