By Lucas Gardner | August 23, 2012 at 2:23 pm | One comment
We all know that Arrested Development's fourth season is coming to Netflix next year, and while we were previously promised 10 episodes, it seems there's just too much catching up to do with the Bluths to cram into that space. “I think it's going to be 13 episodes, not 10....
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By Lucas Gardner | August 21, 2012 at 11:22 am | No comments
Mike Birbiglia's Sleepwalk With Me won the 2012 Audience Award at Sundance and is receiving an overwhelmingly warm response from critics and fans, both those who were already familiar with the comedian and those who weren't. Now, after the success of his auto-biographical debut...
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By Lucas Gardner | August 21, 2012 at 10:57 am | 2 comments
College Humor and the Malaria No More organization have teamed up for Malarious, a malaria prevention charity project, and they've got a lot of our favorite comedians on board. How does it work? Over at the Malarious page on College Humor, you'll find a long list of videos...
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By Lucas Gardner | August 20, 2012 at 4:07 pm | No comments
After a career as an actress and comedian than spanned over 40 years, Phyllis Diller has passed away at the age of 95 in her Los Angeles home.
Diller began her career as a stand-up in 1955, and quickly became notorious as one of the most influential women in comedy....
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By Lucas Gardner | August 20, 2012 at 3:34 pm | No comments
Comedian and actor Chris Gethard has a new home on IFC thanks to the network's new Adopt-A-Comic program, in which they spotlight comics who share their “slightly off” credo. In their own words: “IFC has decided to adopt a comic every year. That's right, we will get to...
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By Lucas Gardner | August 18, 2012 at 1:20 pm | No comments
The wait for the new direct-to-Netflix season of Arrested Development gets more and more unbearable with every update. So far, we've seen photos from the set, the announcement that John Slattery has been added to the team and promises from the crew that the show will return as...
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By Lucas Gardner | August 18, 2012 at 10:39 am | One comment
Continuously embattled comedian Katt Williams has recorded a new stand-up special, Kattpocalypse, for Showtime. It will premiere on the network on Aug 24 with the DVD release scheduled for Sept. 18.
Kattpocalypse will be Katt's newest hour since the release of It's Pimpin'...
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By Lucas Gardner | August 17, 2012 at 4:27 pm | No comments
Comedian Amy Schumer's star is rising fast-- in part, because she's an expert at hurting people's feelings at the roasts on Comedy Central. Schumer recently landed her own sketch series for the network, and they're putting the fearless comedian in the spotlight for her debut...
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By Lucas Gardner | August 17, 2012 at 11:50 am | No comments
Logo, the Viacom-owned channel that produces programming geared towards the LGBT demographic, will be debuting two one-hour specials later this year from Wanda Sykes, in which she and a roundtable of guest panelists cover the topic of gay rights as it pertains to the upcoming...
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