If you're anything like us (and if you're reading this right now, well duh, you obviously are), your britches are itching for the premiere of the new Nick Swardson Comedy Central sketch series, Pretend Time. The morning after the debut on Oct. 12, while you're nursing your...
Here's a little exciting news nugget for you: NBC has its fingers in the pie of a new series written by comedian Mo Mandel. It's a high concept show, reports Deadline, that centers around a collective of 20 somethings, who bide their time and make crucial decisions regarding the...
It's a Pasadena legend, and with 50 years in the biz under its built, we don't have any trouble seeing why. The "it" in question here is the Ice House Comedy Club, and on Sunday, Oct. 10, will celebrate its 50th year as a stand-up stalwart at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. This...
Okay, the title of this post might seem a little premature, particularly since we aren't talking about holidays like Labor or Yom Kippur. But look at it this way - now we have something holiday-related to look forward to that isn't also alcohol-related, and that thing is a new...
Fresh off a string of recent career successes, Ricky Gervais is looking to keep his winning streak going with a new show on UK channel Sky1. In a doc-comedy (did we just coin a new genre here?) called An Idiot Abroad, Gervais and buddy Stephen Merchant have schemed to drop their...
In case you haven't heard already, Michael Ian Black is a stallion. And if you sneak up behind him, chances are you'll be kicked. Hard. In the teeth. And balls. Case in point: Black's Saturday night tirade on a stand-up stage in Columbus, Ohio. After the subject of Obama was...
[caption id="attachment_7665" align="alignleft" width="275" caption="photo by Austin Young"][/caption] When Eddie Murphy first crooned of a lady fair whose primary ambitions lay within the realm of “partying all the time,” he may just as well have been speaking of Margaret...
The year 2010 is probably destined to go down in astrological history as the year of the Hoff. And hell, it's not a bad sign to be born under. Hoffs are by nature dynamic, multi-faceted, able to communicate with inanimate objects, lush in chest hair, and sport that certain rogue...
On Nov. 15, Backwash, a new web series starring Michael Ian Black and a myriad of others, will premier on Crackle.com. I've watched the trailer twice and still can't figure out what the fuck it's about, but it has MIB rocking some vintage Kid Rock-ian pimp threads, so I'm...
