ABC To Have Another Holiday ‘Toy Story’ TV Special
Not that it would be surprising, but ABC seemed to have success enough with a Halloween Toy Story special that it’s going forward to have another one for Christmas.
If this keeps on going, maybe ABC will make one for Columbus Day.
Kurt Braunohler Is a Topic For Question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?
And so, Kurt Braunohler joins the exclusive club of comedians that are topics for quiz show trivia along with Pete Holmes.
Perhaps, they’ll have smoking jackets made like SNL’s Five Timer Club?
FXx Sets ‘Legit’ & ‘Ali G: Rezurection’ Premieres For Next Month
A new season of Legit and Ali G: Rezurection are slated for late Feb. on the same night at FXx.
We cannot wait for the inevitable memes and .gifs of booyakasha.
Jimmy Kimmel Live Going to SXSW
This might be the first time that a late night talk show visits a big time festival for a week of shows. Well, we’re glad that Jimmy Kimmel Live is taping a week of shows at SXSW and we have a feeling that Kimmel is going to pull out all the stops for fake band names and asking if SXSW goers have seen them.
After Epix Botched Launch, You Can Now Watch Patton Oswalt: Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time Now
Patton Oswalt’s latest comedy special Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time was supposed to be available last night, but Epix seemed to have dropped the ball as evidenced by this tweet by Patton. In the time between then and now, Patton began to tweet “what happened” during his special until it just surfaced at Epix.
So, there’s Patton actual (click through to watch at Epix at link) and Twitter rant versions of Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time now.
NBC Orders Comedy Pilots From Gary Sanchez Prods and Dan Mazer
NBC latest addition to their development slate this pilot season is Mission Control from Will Ferrell & Adam McKay’s Gary Sanchez Productions that’s something like an Anchorman set at NASA and Love is Relative from Borat’s Dan Mazer.
There’s lots of interesting stuff that we’d like to some series from.
Maria Bamford to Have Residency at Comedy Palace LA
The Comedy Palace at The Palace Restaurant in Los Feliz here in LA has become a great late night destination to see comedy on Thursdays for free and now has one more reason to make sure you stop by and watch.
The wonderful Maria Bamford is going to start doing a residency starting tonight, doing 20 min. every week around 9:15PM, before the usual start of the show.
Trust us, the show is already great, especially tonight, but you’re going to definitely want to catch the magic of Bamford in residency.
John Hodgman and Dan Castellaneta To Play Rival Public Radio Hosts on Parks & Recreation
If you thought Parks and Recreation had pulled out all the stops, then you obviously did not see this coming. John Hodgman and Dan Castellaneta will appear as two public rival radio hosts, which could be a show on its own, but we get to see it on Parks and Recreation this season.
Showtime Picks Up Philip Seymour Hoffman Comedy ‘Happyish’ to Series
Showtime will now have Happyish, a dark comedy from Phillip Seymour Hoffman, as part of their line-up.
There are few details and the description of the series is kind of broad at this point, but, with Phillip Seymour Hoffman behind this, Happyish might be really great (and hopefully won’t be confused with the extremely dark Happiness, which Seymour was also in).
Rory Scovel Shooting His First Special Next Month in Charleston, SC
Rory Scovel is one of the most captivating minds in comedy in comedy right now and is finally doing his first hour special to be shot in The Footlight Theater in Charleston, SC Feb. 21st & 22nd.
Tickets will go on sale soon. Rest assured, this is one of those things you don’t want to miss out on in any way if you can.
Adult Swim Renews ‘China, IL’ For Season 3
China, IL has officially gotten a season 3 and Adult Swim continues to blaze a trail with their programming even when they’re on only a few hours a day.
Rebecca Miller & Greta Gerwig Team For ‘Maggie’s Plan’
Greta Gerwig who has carved herself into an indie comedy force is onto her next project, Maggie’s Plan with director Rebecca Miller, a film that sounds like it’s not very far from the wheelhouse of Frances Ha.
Given how much we loved Frances Ha (it’s on our 100 Best Things in Comedy We Were Witness To In No Particular Order of 2013), we have no problem with this at all.
Morgan Murphy’s Comedy Special ‘Irish Goodbye’ Released Digitally/on Netflix Next Week
The damn funny Morgan Murphy is releasing her comedy special Irish Goodbye both for purchase and on Netflix next week, Jan. 21st.
Not only is this a special from Morgan, which should make you already excited, but it was taped at The Nerdmelt Showroom, one of the best venues for comedy in LA.
We’ll make sure to remind you next week to buy/watch this.
Michael Cera, John Hawkes Join FX’s Charlie Kaufman Pilot
Are you surprised that the cast of FX/FXx’s line-up of pilots is shaping up? First, Zach Galifianakis in a Louis C.K. pilot, and now Michael Cera and John Hawkes in a Charlie Kaufman pilot.
Just cross your fingers to maybe see these go to series.
Comedy Central Orders Natasha Leggero Pilot From Red Hour & Standup Special
A pilot for a Victorian era parody reality show co-starring Riki Lindhome and a stand up special is coming to Comedy Central from Natasha Leggero.
Whether there’s a correlation or not, we’d like to think this is what happens when you justly defend your comedy that needs no apology because it’s funny.
Season 2 Premiere of Kroll Show Tonight
10:30PM Comedy Central tonight will be the premiere of season 2 of Kroll Show.
Read this several more times so you’ll have muscle memory kick in and you won’t forget to watch.
Zach Galifianakis To Star In and Co-Write Louis C.K. Pilot at FX/FXx
Well, if you had to formulate to make one of the most anticipated pilots of the entire pilot season, having Zach Galifianakis team up with Louis C.K. is a really good way to it. As part of his development deal, C.K. has done just that for FX/FXx.
There are no details as what the pilot might be, which makes us think that C.K. might be playing it so close to the chest that FX/FXx might not even know.
Watch Clip of Romantic Comedy You’d Hope To Get From Amy Poehler & Paul Rudd
David Wain’s latest film They Came Together starring Amy Poehler and Paul Rudd is premiering at Sundance, but Buzzfeed has an exclusive clip that promises a romantic comedy that what come from a member of The State/a kind of romantic comedy we’ve been waiting to see for awhile.
Click through to watch.
The 2nd Riot LA Comedy Festival Was The Best Kind of Riot
If you couldn’t be at The Riot LA Comedy Festival this past weekend for some reason (and that list of reasons should be really small), we recapped some of the most amazing things we saw at the festival and will never forget how funny/magical/brilliant/etc. they all were over at The Nerdist.
Yup, if you weren’t there, you missed out on funny, brilliant, magic.
Bloomington, Indiana’s Limestone Comedy Festival Taking Submissions
Indiana’s own The Limestone Comedy Festival is back for 2014, taking place from May 29th-31st.
They’re taking submissions for comedians all the way up to March 21st and might be a good chance to get a comedy festival under your belt/get to do a comedy festival with Jimmy Pardo and Ron Funches.
Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo Book ABC Comedy Pilot
There isn’t really any vacationing according to the description of the pilot, but that still doesn’t take away from the hope that a Griswold reunion could bring about since Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo are together again for this ABC comedy pilot.
Let’s hope that it’s more like Vegas Vacation and less like Modern Family since ABC has that Modern Family base covered..
Amy Poehler and Brooklyn Nine Nine Take Home Golden Globes
Amy Poehler for Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine Nine, Andy Samberg came up winners for the TV comedy categories at The Golden Globes yesterday.
For the “comedy” movie categories, Leonardo DiCaprio for The Wolf of Wall Street, Spike Jonze for Her, Amy Adams for American Hustle, and American Hustle took their respective Golden Globes.
We pretty much enjoyed all these winners throughout all last year and glad to see newcomer Brooklyn Nine Nine get a win over perennial favorites.
Fox Gives The Lonely Island Development Deal
The Lonely Island will be developing projects/content to be distributed through various Fox media properties over the next few years.
Both The Lonely Island and John Mulaney have now gone from being on SNL at NBC to their own projects at Fox. Perhaps, it’s just a coincidence?
White House Addresses Jimmy Kimmel’s China Joke
Thanks to thousands upon thousands of people outraged last year over a joke apparently “at China’s expense” during a segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live, The White House had to take the time to not deal with more pressing matters and say that they can’t cancel Jimmy Kimmel Live because of the right to free speech.
Good job all of you outraged enough at an joke that hinges on its high level of absurdity to ignore the problems with healthcare, social security, etc. etc. on not knowing the U.S. government doesn’t have the time or could care less about shutting down something like Jimmy Kimmel Live.
Oh, in case you couldn’t figure it out in the previous sentence because you were a person that signed that petition, we were being sarcastic.
HBO Sets Premiere Dates for ‘Veep’, ‘Silicon Valley’ & More
Too much time has passed from when the last season of Veep ended and for Mike Judge’s live action HBO series Silicon Valley featuring TJ Miller, Kumail Nanjiani, Thomas Middleditch, and more.
Thankfully, there’s premiere dates for both of those shows in April so we know exactly how long we have to fidgeting until they hit the air.