Owen Benjamin may star in his own half-hour sitcom for Fox, written by comedy veteran Marsh McCall. McCall is executive producing the show with producer Bill Haber, a former agent and CAA co-founder, along with Peter Principato among others. Benjamin will star as a...
Stand-up favorite and former Daily Show correspondent, Rob Riggle is in development with CBS for a new half-hour comedy. According to Deadline, this marks the third consecutive holding deal between Riggle and CBS. Why all the fuss over this Marine Corps Captain turned funny man?...
I listen to a seemingly overwhelming amount of comedy podcasts each week. I look forward to these shows like I look forward to payday. Each one is like my Vestibulocochlear nerve just cashed a check and had its mom drop it off at the arcade in the mall. I guess my...
Mark your calendars everyone. The first episode of the hugely anticipated podcast from Paul F. Tompkins is complete. The Pod F. TomPkast was recorded this week at TV/Film Composer, Eban Schletter's studio. Chances are, many of our readers are familiar with Schletter's work on...
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galfianakis, a.k.a. the greatest web series of all time, is back. The latest episode hit the interwebs today with a very prepared Steve Carell as guest. If you have insecurities about the size/shape of your nose as I do, ready yourself for some...
Every morning I like to check Twitter to find out what the scuttlebutt was while I was sleeping. I'll start to reply to someone but quit mid-tweet when I realize that nobody remembers what they updated 9 hours ago. Today, I was both delighted and insanely frustrated to find a...
The Rev. Susan Sparks has the inside scoop on how preachers can better connect with their parishioners - which would presumably help those church goers connect with God. The secret? Stand-up comedy. Sparks, as Tennessean.com reports, is a former trial lawyer turned American...
Remember how Highlights Magazine would have one picture on the front cover and then an almost identical picture on the back but whacky things going terribly wrong? Well the video I watched today of Daniel Songer is the Back Cover of Highlights Magazines of Stand-up Comedy. I...
If there's a fast track to comedy success, Jeff Dye has found it. While still living in Seattle, Jeff earned an opportunity that allowed him to bypass the first audition round of season six of Last Comic Standing-- a competition he would ultimately take third place in. And now,...
