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The award-winning comedian is bringing his show Born A Crime to the States for the first time; now through June 8, the 29-year-old will perform the show off-Broadway at 45 Bleecker in New York City (Tickets here). As you’ll hear in my interview with Noah, which took place at the offices of WestBeth Entertainment (the company presenting Born A Crime), the show relates Noah’s very personal story about growing up in South Africa under Apartheid. His father is a white dude (German and Swiss) and his mother is black. Put simply, the union was illegal. His mother was routinely fined and tossed in jail for her crime and Noah, himself, always had a lot of explaining to do; as a mixed-race child, no one in his neighborhood looked like him.

He’s released multiple hours of comedy in his native country, amassed nearly two million Twitter and Facebook followers, has been on the cover of Rolling Stone in South Africa and has gained the immense respect of some of the biggest names in the industry— Eddie Izzard (who produced his show last year in Edinburgh), Russell Peters and Gabriel Iglesias, to name just three. He made his Stateside television debut on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in 2012 and you’ll be able to see him on Late Show with David Letterman this Friday, May 17.

For now, though, I’d like to invite you to listen to the great chat I had with Noah, and, if you’re anywhere within a few hours of New York, get thee to Born A Crime. Enjoy!

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The show revolves around JJK Security, headed up by Joan Koplan, a firearms instructor and police academy graduate who revels in poop jokes and acting totally inappropriate at the work place. Oh, and she’s got Parkinson’s disease. The thing is, though, she’s great at her job, which endears her to the rest of her team (if not the rest of her town, wherein some of its residents aren’t happy with how she’s representing Ringgold).

Her team includes Irwin, her husband of 44 years; his job as a salesman is to get new clients for JJK. On the second season – it airs Thursdays on AMC at 10 pm ET – Irwin trains Christa — she’s not exactly a fast learner — for a sales job. It’s going to be rough. Then there’s Dennis, who’s head of all the security guards— and who is in the process of undergoing gender reassignment. Brian Taylor is the straight-laced office manager who plays the straight man to his co-workers’ shenanigans. The show is funny, even when it’s not supposed to be. But that’s ok. To get a slightly better taste of Small Town Security, check out the teaser below! – dylan

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From the man voted ‘Funniest Person on Twitter’ by Comedy Central, The Huffington Post and many others, Rob Delaney’s ‘War of Words’ is centered around hundreds of Rob’s most entertaining tweets, which you and your fellow player will read aloud as you race around the board identifying ‘who wrote what’ and battling to see which player’s words are the funniest. And if your hunches are correct and the judges like your words best, then you could be a winner. And the world needs more winners…especially in times of war.

To further drive the point, you should watch this awesome fake interview with Rob Delaney conducted by Erin Gibson (who is also hilarious) playing a bonkers entertainment reporter-type named Tasha van der Sloot. Do it!

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What’s really cool about the conference is that it’s not just a one-way street; it’s not just comedy bigwigs talking at attendees. Like last year, this year’s conference affords up-and-coming television writers and Web series producers an opportunity to get discovered. You can be selected to pitch live and in front of a panel of comedy experts during the conference. And although the deadlines were set to end already, they’ve been extended through this Friday, May 17 at midnight.

For the TV Comedy Search, “Five finalists will be selected to pitch live during ‘From Set to Screen’ before a panel of comedy experts. One winner will be selected for exclusive showcase opportunities and participation at the 2013 New York Television Festival in October.”

For the Web Series pitch, “A maximum of three (3) projects will be selected. Accepted applicants will be given five (5) minutes to present their work in an open-forum pitch session to a panel of industry experts. The winner will receive the opportunity to become an official YouTube Partner and to have their content highlighted across the YouTube site.”

You should head on over to the conference’s official rules page here to get all the information you need. Do it!

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On Mondays at 8 pm this fall, How I Met Your Mother will begin its ninth and final season and will act as the lead-in for newcomer We Are Men, about four single guys (played by Kal Penn, Tony Shalhoub, Jerry O’Connell and Chris Smith) living in the same apartment complex who bond over their love lives. The Whitney Cummings-produced 2 Broke Girls returns for its third season, following at 9 pm and Mom – produced by Chuck Lorre and starring Anna Faris) rounds out the two-hour comedy block. Faris stars as a mother and recovering alcoholic who works as a waitress at a restaurant in Napa Valley (there’s LOTS of booze in Napa Valley, you guys). Allison Janney plays her mother, also a recovering alcoholic. Nate Corddry plays Faris’ boss, whom she just happens to be banging. Also, he’s married. That is morally wrong!

On Tuesdays, CBS shifts its focus to two NCIS shows and Person of Interest, which I’ve never seen but I assume is about good-looking people trying to arrest people who cut up and eat humans, or something. Wednesdays are all about Survivor and more gross crime stuff.

Thursday finds ratings behemoths The Big Bang Theory and Two And A Half Men (with much less Angus T. Jones) at 8 pm and 9:30 pm, respectively, sandwiching new offerings The Millers and The Crazy Ones. With the official cancellation of Up All Night on NBC, Will Arnett was free to headline another show and thus he stars in The Millers as Nathan Miller, a recently divorced news reporter who’s eager to get back into the dating scene, especially since he’s got an excellent wingman in best friend Ray, played by JB Smoove. Interesting note: In real life, Arnett is recently divorced from Amy Poehler. Art imitates life, or something.

At 9 pm, The Crazy Ones begins and brings together one of the most unlikely pairs on television— Robin Williams and Sarah Michelle Gellar. Williams plays a talented advertising executive and Gellar plays his daughter and business partner (cue familial stress). Although Simon Roberts (Williams) is good at his job, he is, of course, a bit zany and so Sydney (Gellar) spends much of her time trying to reign dad in.

The Emmy-winning series Mike & Molly (Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell) will return for its fourth season but is expected to premiere midseason, along with newcomer Friends with Better Lives, a romantic comedy starring (among others) James Van Deer Beek (free after the cancellation of Don’t Trust the B— on ABC) Kevin Connolly (Entourage), model-turned-sort-of-actress Brooklyn Decker and Zoe Lister Jones (free after the cancellation of NBC’s Whitney).

Worth noting is that CBS passed on the television adaptation of Beverly Hills Cop, which would’ve been produced by Eddie Murphy (who would’ve made occasional appearances as the movie franchise’s character Axel Foley) and would’ve starred Brandon T Jones, as Foley’s son. The buzz is that the show still has a decent chance landing on another network. Also, noteworthy, especially for our readers, is that it seems that for now, CBS passed on Jim Gaffigan’s pilot, which centered on the comedian’s life as a husband and father to five children. It co-starred Mira Sorvino as Gaffigan’s wife as well as Janeane Garofalo and comedian Marina Franklin. Word is the network still has faith in it and has asked for it to be retooled. Fingers crossed!

UPDATE: 11:15 pm ET

Check out previews of the new CBS comedy offerings below!

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The Goldbergs is a family comedy that takes place in the ‘80s and stars Jeff Garlin and Wendi McClendon-Covey (Reno 911!, Bridesmaids) as parents of a teen-age son and daughter and a geeky 11-year-old boy who constantly films the family with a camcorder. The show – produced by Adam Sandler’s company Happy Madison – is already drawing comparisons to The Wonder Years, especially since it employs a narrator: Patton Oswalt! Following The Goldbergs is The Trophy Wife, which stars Malin Akerman (Childrens Hospital) as a reformed party girl who marries Pete (Bradley Whitford), who has two ex-wives, played by Marcia Gay Harden and Michaela Watkins.

Returning series The Middle kicks off Wednesday night at 8 pm and is followed by Back in the Game, which stars James Caan (a “beer-guzzling ex-athlete”) as Maggie Lawson’s estranged father. An ex-jock, herself, Lawson’s character ends up coaching a team of terrible Little Leaguers, one of which is her not-so-athletic son, Danny. The returning and massively successful Modern Family follows, acting as an amazing lead-in for Super Fun Night, co-produced by Conan O’Brien. It stars Rebel Wilson (Pitch Perfect) as a junior attorney whose recent promotion messes up the 13-year-old tradition she and her two best girlfriends have, which demands the trio hang out every Friday night without actually going anywhere.

Thursday is all cut-up bodies, hot people in suits and fantasyland stuff. And Friday boasts only two comedies, the returning Last Man Standing and underrated The Neighbors. The final new comedy is Mixology – about a crew of twenty-somethings who hang out at Union, a hip bar in New York City. It’s not yet on the schedule so one has to assume it’ll debut midseason.

Below you can check out previews of all of the above mentioned new ABC comedies. Tell us what you think in the comments section!

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