Season 8 of Last Comic Standing Apparently Taking E-mail Submissions
Reportedly, there will be no more lines outside of comedy clubs in order to audition for the upcoming season Last Comic Standing, but you’ll still be able to go without representation having to submit you on their behalf.
No word on a deadline, but ASAP would probably be better than letter.
The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project and Review Coming in Feb/Mar.
You might have heard that the amazing Andy Daly has a brand new podcast coming up at Earwolf called The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project as well as his upcoming Comedy Central series Review premiering soon.
Well, you can replace “soon” with Thurs. Feb. 6th for The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project and Thurs. Mar. 6th 10PM for Review. Make event reminders for both ASAP even though you have several weeks to do so.
NBC Orders Pilot of Rob Lowe Tennis Comedy ‘The Pro’
Rob Lowe is getting closer to moving from fictional politics to fictional former tennis fame in this comedy project The Pro that just got a pilot order at NBC.
We’re curious who else gets attached to this and if it’s going to be done with the mockumentary style that has gotten NBC so much success.
‘Modern Family’s Paul Corrigan & Brad Walsh Ink Overall Deal With 20th Century Fox TV
The latest overall network deal (Amy Poehler and Louis C.K. have gotten them recently at NBC and FX respectively) goes to Paul Corrigan and Brad Walsh from Modern Family.
However, it’s not at ABC, but rather 20th Century Fox, which, again is amassing a nice set of projects and people for their current development slate.
Adam Scott’s 4th The Greatest Event in Television History Is Tonight
Three attempts at The Greatest Event in Television History/doing shot-for-shot remakes of old sitcom openings has proved to be not enough for Adam Scott, so he’s going for a fourth try tonight.
At midnight tonight on Adult Swim, Adam Scott and Paul Rudd will premiere their latest and greatest “event”, which, of course, upcoming Sochi Winter Olympics has nothing on.
Fred Armisen to Release Singles by His Fictional SNL Bands
If Fred Armisen’s collection of singles from his fake bands from SNL works out, maybe he’ll put out another collection from all the fake bands “he was in” with Jimmy Fallon.
Hometown Heroes has its first single come out next month.
Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule Returns at End of Next Month at Adult Swim
John C. Reilly is reprising his role as Dr. Steve Brule for season 3 of Check It Out at the very end of February.
We know it’s been way too long since season 2, but you only have to wait just over one more month.
Colin Jost To Be New SNL Weekend Update Co-Anchor
Colin Jost will join Cecily Strong in co-anchoring Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update replacing Seth Meyers when Meyers heads to Late Night.
The shifting from Weekend Update host to Late Night host to host of The Tonight Show seems to be a last bastion of old school television especially considering that many of the newer late night shows are named just after the host.
Chris Gethard’s Releasing First Comedy Album Apr. 22nd
In addition to having one of the higher profile pilots in development this pilot season with The Chris Gethard Show at Comedy Central, Chris Gethard is going to release a comedy album from Don Giovanni Records.
You can pre-order it now for digital and vinyl release and, who are you kidding, you should just go do that right now because you know you’ll want to hear this.
A deal has been made to air The Ellen DeGeneres Show in China after it airs here in the U.S.
Someone needs to make a mini documentary of how Chinese people react to Ellen when it airs on a regular basis.
Marc Maron’s Thinky Pain Now Available on DVD
One of our favorite comedy specials from last year Thinky Pain from Marc Maron just got released on DVD.
Pick it up because there will be times that you can’t access your Netflix account and will want to watch it.
Bill Cosby Returning To NBC To Star In Family Comedy
NBC is having one of the most noted and respected names in comedy Bill Cosby back on the network.
There’s no specifics on what the half hour series would be, but given Cosby’s latest special Far From Finished, doing things like taking over Funny or Die’s Twitter account, constantly leading Jimmy Fallon through his late night segments during his appearance, we’d guess that this will be a Cosby Show for now.
Rashida Jones To Star in Steve Carell’s TBS Comedy Pilot ‘Tribeca’
Having Rashida Jones star in this a police procedural comedy pilot from Steve Carell should equal automatic series pick up. With that news, Carell’s Tribeca just even got more highly anticipated amongst comedy pilots this season.
Let’s see if the TV development math checks out soon.
B.J. Novak Writing Children’s Book Without Pictures
B.J. Novak wants to get kids into reading sans visual aids unlike most of the fare in the children’s book world.
So, he’s writing The Book With No Pictures for kids to accomplish just that. Curious to see if this becomes successful enough that someone would option it for a TV series or a feature and undermine the whole premise.
Here’s The First Line-up Announcement for 2014 Moontower Comedy Festival
James Adomian, Rory Albanese, Cristela Alonzo, Aziz Ansari, Maria Bamford, W. Kamau Bell, Mike Birbiglia, Kurt Braunohler, Hannibal Buress, Michael Che, Cameron Esposito, Erin Foley, Ron Funches, Ian Karmel, Jackie Kashian, Kids In The Hall, Laurie Kilmartin, Andy Kindler, Mike Lawrence, Hasan Minhaj, Demetri Martin, Kurt Metzger, Dennis Miller, Brent Morin, Sean Patton, Colin Quinn, Rory Scovel, Ari Shaffir, Dan Soder, Beth Stelling, Brody Stevens, Brent Weinbach, and much much more will be in Austin, TX for The Moontower Comedy Festival Apr. 23rd-26th.
Sounds pretty great, huh? Well, get your passes now from $99 to $499.
Patton Oswalt and Fred Armisen To Be in Vegas Episode of Modern Family
Patton Oswalt and Fred Armisen will be guest starring on Modern Family later this season when the show takes a trip to Vegas.
Oswalt probably won’t get to do another improvised Star Wars filibuster/pitch, but let’s hope something like that happens.
Amy Poehler To Be Fallon’s Last Guest, Meyers’ First Guest on “Late Night”
Whether a link between eras of comedy at SNL between Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers or just one of the funniest people around, it’s a smart move, in our opinion to have Amy Poehler be the guest to send off Fallon to The Tonight Show and welcome Meyers to Late Night.
Fortune Feimster Cast In Fox Comedy Pilot
Fortune Feimster will be in a comedy pilot executive produced by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock about a women’s college accepting men for the first time in its history.
It’s safe to say that most of us want to see this.
The Colbert Report and Modern Family Win at The PGA Awards
The Producers Guild of America gives Modern Family another win this awards season as well as The Colbert Report.
We wonder if handling Daft Punk last year helped Colbert for this win.
Modern Family and Veep Win at SAG Awards
The Screen Actors Guild Awards gave statues to Modern Family and Veep, who both continue to rack up awards wins and nominations and will no doubt have a great sticker to note that on their DVD box sets.
Amy Poehler Also Signs Overall Deal With NBC, Lands Comedy Pilot Order
So, along with hosting The Golden Globes, which aired on NBC, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey now both have overall deals and comedy projects (this new Poehler pilot will have Natasha Lyonne starring) at the peacock.
At this point, couldn’t Poehler and Fey have their own network?
Parks and Recreation To Have Seventh Season
Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment, has just announced this at the TCAs, so that should make your Sunday.
The Chris Gethard Show Coming to The Bay Area To Put on Better Winter Olympics
Chris Gethard and company are coming to the West Coast finally and will be putting on their shenanigans Feb. 8th at the Eureka Theater after the start of The Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
They promise a much better, more entertaining version of The Olympics and we have no doubt that Gethard will succeed.
There is no “if” to qualify here; just go.
2014 Bridgetown Comedy Festival Taking Submissions Until Jan. 24th
One of the best comedy festivals in the country, The Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland, OR, has been taking submissions since the end of 2013 and will do so for a week more.
If you’re a comedian or a comedy show and want in, you have until midnight Jan. 24th to submit.
Bill Murray Gets Around To Hanging Out at Reddit
Famously known for hanging out randomly in public places as recounted at BillMurrayStory.com, Murray finally got to moseying on over to Reddit for an AMA session.
As you’d imagine, it was delightful, so read away.