Amy Poehler-produced Broad City coming to Comedy Central (Video)

Amy Poehler-produced Broad City coming to Comedy Central (Video)

By | March 13, 2013 at 11:55 am | 4 comments

Amy Poehler is coming to Comedy Central! Sort of. The network announced today that popular Web series Broad City has been picked up to series and will debut 10 episodes in 2014. Poehler will executive produce the comedy, centered around Upright Citizens Brigade alums Abbi...

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SXSW Comedy, day 4: Marc Maron, Fred Armisen, Nasty Show and more!

SXSW Comedy, day 4: Marc Maron, Fred Armisen, Nasty Show and more!

By | March 13, 2013 at 11:07 am | 2 comments

AUSTIN -- Sweet fancy Moses, we’re halfway into SXSW! This whole week is a marathon of networking, alcohol and hearing the words “innovation” and “creative flow” so many times you’ll probably have an aneurysm, so think happy thoughts for those of us who continue...

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Anthony Jeselnik shark attack sketch draws outrage

Anthony Jeselnik shark attack sketch draws outrage

By | March 12, 2013 at 11:36 pm | 221 comments

Before tonight's episode of The Jeselnik Offensive aired, viewers were already outraged about a segment called "Shark Party," which Comedy Central uploaded to its official site as well as its YouTube channel yesterday. Pegged to the death of shark-attack victim Adam Strange, 46,...

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SXSW Comedy, Day 3: Brett Gelman, Jay Larson, Team Coco and more!

SXSW Comedy, Day 3: Brett Gelman, Jay Larson, Team Coco and more!

By | March 12, 2013 at 2:08 pm | 2 comments

AUSTIN -- As you may have heard, Austin’s motto is “Keep Austin Weird,” referring to the fun eccentricities of its most colorful people and places. But the same could have been said for one of the oddest performances I can remember seeing in the past three years of...

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Behind the scenes of America’s Got Talent from a comedian who bombed (Video)

Behind the scenes of America’s Got Talent from a comedian who bombed (Video)

By | March 12, 2013 at 1:14 pm | 2 comments

To say comedy -- especially stand-up comedy -- is a rough, mostly thankless business, would be a severe understatement. Any comedian, even the hugely popular ones, will tell you they've experienced many more embarrassing failures than they have had unmitigated successes. Great...

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Patton Oswalt is auctioning off his King of Queens memorabilia

Patton Oswalt is auctioning off his King of Queens memorabilia

By | March 12, 2013 at 12:39 pm | No comments

As he explained in an eloquently-written post on his official site today, comedian Patton Oswalt tonight is auctioning off a great deal of memorabilia he acquired during his nine years playing Spence on the massively successful CBS series King of Queens. He's doing so to raise...

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Sponsored videos: Messy snacks and dry-wit laughs

Sponsored videos: Messy snacks and dry-wit laughs

By | March 12, 2013 at 12:13 pm | No comments

We're pretty sure GE executives have been holed up in a dark room with nothing but their laptops, watching hours and hours of Adult Swim-- or, at least every episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Why do we think that? Well, we just watched a trio of videos, which are...

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SXSW Comedy, Day 2: Arrested Development and Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera launch JASH

SXSW Comedy, Day 2: Arrested Development and Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera launch JASH

By | March 11, 2013 at 11:09 am | 2 comments

AUSTIN -- The second day of shenanigans left many SXSW attendees (yours truly included) a little more bleary-eyed than we might have wanted to be – thanks, daylight saving – but good golly, the perks made it all worth the lack of sleep. For those of you who are...

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Marc Maron’s IFC series will premiere May 3, guest stars announced

Marc Maron’s IFC series will premiere May 3, guest stars announced

By | March 11, 2013 at 10:15 am | 3 comments

The long-awaited IFC series based on comedian Marc Maron’s life will premiere on Friday, May 3 at 10 pm ET on IFC. The 10-episode first season of Maron will feature a massive list of guest stars including Mark Duplass, Dave Foley, Jeff Garlin, Bobcat Goldthwait, Ken Jeong,...

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