August 2011
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The Next Episode Of Louie Will Feature Dane...
Here’s something I wasn’t expecting to see happen but damn if it’s not a great idea to bring these two together on a TV show. Obviously the lore behind the story goes back a few years ago when Cook was accused of stealing some of C.K.’s jokes by people of the internet and various others.
C.K. has always stayed away from stoking the fires and kinda dismissed things with...
July 2011
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Just For Laughs Montreal - Day 3
Friday kicked off with some comedy awards. As everyone gathered into the Hyatt’s main ballroom they were treated to Jeff Ross hosting a celebration of those the festival was honoring this year. Those selected were Steven Levitan and Christopher Lloyd for comedy writers for their work on Modern Family, Ken Jeong (The Hangover II, Community) for breakout comedy star, Paul Feig (Bridesmaids)...
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Let's Watch Video From The New Napoleon Dynamite...
Gosh! Here we go, the long confirmed TV version of one of the breakout indie comedies of the last decade, is here. That’s right Napoleon Dynamite the animated series. FOX just released a teaser clip of the show which is scheduled to premiere this fall. And it looks pretty sweet, pretty awesome. It also has the entire returning cast from the movie to come and do the voices of the...
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Just For Laughs Montreal - Day 2
Thursday of the festival kicked off with a mixer, running into some old friends, making a few new ones. Then things kicked things off with Marc Maron’s keynote address. Andy Kindler brought out Maron with his signature neurotic ranting style, he’s been a longtime friend of Marc’s, he was funny, he was honored, and he seemed excited.
Maron’s standing-room only keynote...
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Just For Laughs Montreal - Day 1
The drive from NYC to Montreal was a pretty sprinty one. Mainly because the car was full of great people that included a stop along the way at one of the sketchiest Chinese buffets ever witnessed. But as they say in Plattsburgh…”ehh”.
Upon arriving around 7pm and checking into our swanky hotel, which I’m told was pretty heavily remodeled since last year with even more...
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We're Live From Just For Laughs Montreal
We’re currently in Montreal, wreaking havoc on the Just For Laughs Festival. All week long, we’ll be attending panels about comedy, talking to others about comedy, watching live comedy, and maybe even dreaming comedy. This is a good thing if you run a comedy-centric website because it allows us the chance to talk about it publicly and not have people say things like, “Matt! No...
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Marc Maron Was On Fallon, Did A Dane Cook...
Marc Maron stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to talk about his new album, This Has To Be Funny and ya know, life. Fallon asked Marc about some of his guests and the topic came to Dane Cook where Marc pulled out a pretty funny impression showing off Dane’s energy. Check out the clips now.
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Michael Ian Black Is Very Famous, Will Prove It On...
I can stop with this write up as soon as I point out that the album artwork for Michael Ian Black’s new stand-up special, Very Famous pays homage to Dr. Dre’s The Chronic. Mainly because no matter what I say from here on out, this is the best comparison I could draw that shows how awesome MIB is. Hell! Even his initials are cool, drawing the image that he’s out fighting aliens...
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Ten Minute Decade Is Here! Lara Mannino Dishes On...
For almost two years I’ve been working on a short comedic film, Ten Minute Decade. This week we finally completed it and I want to share it with you!
During an eight month period, I got laid off (again) from a job I hated, got married, moved across the country, and turned 30 while unemployed in a new city. When the dust settled, I jotted down the failures and disappointments of my past ten...
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Can Lavell Crawford Get Some Love?
The former Last Comic Standing contestant is doing pretty well for himself lately. In addition to regularly appearing on talk shows like Chelsea Lately and Lopez Tonight, Lavell Crawford also recently made a cameo on Breaking Bad, it’s not a comedy but damn is that show riveting. the hit drama Breaking Bad’s current season. And now he has his own Comedy Central special.
Filmed at the...
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This Week In Comedy: Northern Festivals Of Laughs
As I write this, I’m going through my schedule for the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival and I’m trying my best to double book myself. Louis C.K. performing at the same time as Anthony Jeselnik and Nick Thune across town…check. WTF? with Marc Maron podcast being recorded right at the same time as the new talent showcase, not a problem.
Yup, the plan is to be everywhere at the...
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John Pinette's New Stand-Up Special, "Still...
When I was a younger, child-like version of myself, I heard a John Pinette bit that stuck with me for the next year or so. No matter where I went I told the joke to people, family, friends, my butcher (who didn’t have a butcher when they were 13?) I have no real idea why that Pinette bit stuck with me so long, and now many moons later, I vaguely remember the setup of the joke and...
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Jimmy Fallon Revisits The History Of Rap
Last September, Justin Timberlake showed up on Jimmy Fallon to promote The Social Network.
Now, nearly a year later he’s back to promote his new movie, Friends With Benefits. And what better way to top off an appearance than to team up with Fallon and run through the second part of the history of rap with The Roots. Ya heard.
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It's A Good Old Fashioned Orgy...
Alright here’s what happens when you mix cast members from Saturday Night Live, Childrens Hospital, Party Down, and Nick Kroll for good measure. You get yourself a Good Old Fashioned Orgy, a new ensemble movie that capitalizes on the generation of thirtysomethings that still refuses to acknowledge they need to grow up.
And once they get to that point, they decide that group sex is the...
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Larry David Talks About his Return To Stand-Up...
Who would’ve thought that you’d go from seeing Katy Perry to Larry David on the cover of Rolling Stone within a few weeks? Just in time for Curb Your Enthusiasm’s 8th season kick off, a cover story on the neurotic comedian/writer (also half responsible for the birth of Seinfeld) appears on the cover of Rolling Stone’s latest issue, which hits stands on July 22.
David had a lot to say in...
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Gallagher Not Received Well At The County Fair
The aftermath of “Comedy Night” at the St. Joseph County fair in Indiana is resulting in Gallagher not receiving his final check. As the two parties go back and forth the main reason the 4-H club in charge of the fair is holding his final payment is because he failed to perform a “G” rated show. Earlier this month Gallagher received a mixed reaction when he made jokes about Muslims and Homosexuals...
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Your Guide To Finding Comedy At Comic-Con
There may be the phrase “comic” in the title but Comic-Con is usually reserved for fans of graphic novels and cosplay. But that doesn’t mean there’s not going to be plenty of funny people attending the convention to hock their wares. Here’s a list of where you will find the funny while roaming the main exhibit hall counting the number of ladies dressed as Princess...
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The Tosh Tour On Ice Kicks Off This Week
The thing is, I don’t think he’s actually on skates so right off the bat Daniel Tosh is a friggin’ liar! Thanks buddy!
This Friday, July 22nd the Tosh Tour On Ice tour will kick off in Boston, MA. The great thing about this tour is it’s long, nearly 2 months and he doesn’t seem to be pulling into our neck of the NYC woods. Daniel, what you got against New York? The...
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South Park “The Year Of The Fan” Coming To...
It’s hard to believe that South Park is in the middle of its 15th season. As the older it gets, the show seems to become even more absurd and vulgar (see episodes like “The Royal Pudding” or “You’re Getting Old” from this current season if you don’t believe us). One thing that doesn’t change, though, is the hardcore loyalty of its fans.
With that in mind, Comedy Central and the show are...
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Marc Maron Has To Be Funny On August 9th
Marc Maron is having a pretty banner year with his explosion into the mainstream and recognition for being a strong comedic mind. Sometimes it takes years of hard work and setbacks to become an overnight success. Bit it also makes damn good sense that he’s putting out a new comedy album to strike while the proverbial iron is hot.
Today Comedy Central Records announced their plans to...
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This Week In Comedy: Snubbs For Swanson
It’s been a few days since the announcements for the Primetime Emmy Award nominations came down the line. Although there were a lot of very talented comedic minds selected, perhaps the biggest story was who was snubbed. While anyone can really make a debate for their favorite funny person, it seems the entire internet has rallied around Nick Offerman and his lack of recognition for his work...
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Eugene Mirman Wants To Do Unprofitable Stuff For...
We’re headed into year four of the Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival and it’s good to see he’s still not really taking the thing too seriously. Which falls in line with the original plan anyway. Mirman originally started the festival to make fun of comedy festivals and he’s now trying to take it to even bigger levels of ridiculousness.
The thing is, he doesn’t really...
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Kurt Metzger Talks To Young People About Sex, We...
Kurt Metzger is more a household voice than he is name. He can thank the new breakout Comedy Central animated series Ugly Americans as Metzger supplies the voice to Randall, the zombie roommate of Mark, the series’ main protagonist. Once you hear the man’s voice, it’s distinction is pretty unmistakeable.
Besides acting as Randall, recently Metzger just made the 2011 Comedy...
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The 2011 Emmy Nominations Are In, What Funny...
The nominations for the Primetime Emmy Awards were announced this morning. Though these things are always up for debate, here is how the comedy world fared, and of course, our thoughts.
Outstanding Comedy Series Glee
Parks And Recreation
The Office
Modern Family
30 Rock
The Big Bang Theory
Wow, TBBT pushed Nurse Jackie out of this category this year and rightfully so, the show survived the...
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Spotify Launches In The US, We Take It's Comedy...
Well today the United States got itself access to Spotify, the music streaming service that’s taken pretty much other countries and territories by storm. We’ve been teased about it for what seems forever, “Ha! You Yanks don’t have Spofity! You live in a third world country!” While I may be paraphrasing that last bit, what this does mean is the program should have...
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Artie Lange And Nick DiPaolo Aren't Making A Radio...
After news broke that Artie Lange and Nick DiPaolo were making a small return to radio last week on FOX Sports Radio, all hell broke loose with rumors that the duo were going to start their own sports show and Lange was going to mount a comeback, even possibly return to The Howard Stern Show. He even went as far to state on air that he’d love to make a comeback on the Stern Show but he put...
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Margaret Cho Promotes Sexting For Immediate...
For a limited time, Margaret Cho is offering fans the chance to purchase the Sexting Bundle, which includes her grammy-nominated album Cho Dependent and 2 unreleased songs, for a price of your own choosing. 20% of all proceeds will be donated to Immediate Justice, a charity empowering young women and queer people of color with the knowledge and skill-sets to generate new images of reproductive...
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What Has Will Forte Been Up To?
It’s been about a year since Will Forte exited Saturday Night Live after an eight season run as a cast member. Since then, he’s made the occasional guest appearance on TV shows and tried to make one of his SNL characters into a hit movie (to not much success), but nothing has broken him out as a “big name.” However, Forte just landed a role that, at the very least will put him amongst...
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Jamie Foxx's Long-Delayed Sketch Comedy Show Will...
Place your eyeballs on the first look at the new Jamie Foxx sketch comedy show, In The Flow. The show stars Affion Crockett and according to the trailer, it’s looking like Crockett is the only guy on the show. Now I’m sure this isn’t the case but the trailer leads me to believe that.
You may recognize Crockett from his days on Wild ‘n Out and/or his vocal talents being...
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Enter To Win A Saturday Night Live: 25 Years Of...
The popular movie channel EPIX not only airs many stand-up specials but they have a pretty hefty the movie front as well. To celebrate, they just kicked off a their Summer Movie Free-for-All event which a series of outdoor movie screenings happening all over NYC.
The next one they are going to put on is tonight and it just happens to be a screening of Wayne’s World at McCarren Park. So...
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Denis Leary Has A Busy Week, Rescue Me Premiere,...
Denis Leary has a pretty friggin’ big week ahead of him. The comedian’s long-running series, Rescue Me will begin its final run this week with the season 8 premiere on Wednesday, July 13th on FX.
The next day some of the cast from Rescue Me including, Leary, co-creator Peter Tolan, and Lenny Clarke will cap off the series by gathering at the Smithsonian where clothes and props from the...
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Doug Stanhope Is Already Recording A New Stand-Up...
Doug Stanhope is working fast, just earlier this year he released his live album/DVD Oslo: Burning the Bridge To Nowhere, his first for the newly founded Roadrunner Comedy label, and now he already has enough new material to go back on stage and record another special.
This time around, Stanhope is going to forgo setting up a stage in warehouse in a foreign country and head to The Complex in...
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Doug Benson Reveals He Has A Potty Mouth
Well, it looks like Doug Benson is keeping up with the trend of releasing a new album of comedy every year (always recorded on 4.20 according to Wikipedia) Earlier this month he mentioned the via Twitter. That his new album will be called Potty Mouth and will be released on August 30th via Comedy Central Records.
Benson also just posted the album’s art which is an obvious, and great...
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Win Vouchers To Judy Gold’s One Woman Show
Judy Gold’s Off-Broadway one-woman play, The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom, just opened. While we’re already providing the chance to get yourself some discounted tickets, we’re now offering up the opportunity to win some tickets.
That’s right, The Laugh Button is giving two lucky winner the chance to win two vouchers to Gold’s one-woman play at the DR2 Theatre in NYC. All you have to do...
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Great Comedians And The Terrible Movies They've...
This weekend marks the release of Kevin James’ new movie Paul Blart, Zoo Cop The Zookeeper. Though there’s a good chance the movie will perform more than fine in the box office, it poses the question about the film’s quality as a comedy. James isn’t the first comedian to star in movie that fails to hit critical acclaim, and he definitely will not be the last.
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Megan Mullally Dishes On Comic-Con, Party Down And...
Fans of Megan Mullally may best remember her as Karen Walker, the iconic pill-popping character she portrayed for eight seasons on NBC’s Will & Grace.
Mullally received 7 consecutive Emmy nominations and won twice for “Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series” making her a valuable asset on shows like Parks and Recreation, the short-lived Party Down and her current gig as the Chief...
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Kenny Powers...And Jason Sudekis
I think we can officially call 2011 “The Year of Sudekis,” because the profile on Jason Sudekis has pretty much exploded. His daytime job on Saturday Night Live, hosting awards shows, movies (including Horrible Bosses opening this weekend), and now we can add sharing screen time with Motherfuckin’ Kenny Powers.
TV Guide just confirmed that Sudekis will join the case of Eastbound...
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Bumbershoot 2011 Announces It's Comedy Lineup
Seattle’s Bumbershoot Music & Arts Festival is mostly know for its lineup of diverse music acts. However, the festival has kept it a tradition to showcase the best of the arts and theatre. And for the past fourteen years, comedy has played a major role in the annual festival’s lineup.
Thus the tradition continues as Bumbershoot has announced this year’s comedy lineup. This year’s lineup...
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Watch Patton Oswalt Do Some Crabwalkin'
Here’s a quick little WTF? video for your Friday morning.
You can do a lot in 5 seconds and Patton Oswalt knows this. The comedian decided to participate in a 5 Second Film and it’s called “Crabwalkin’”. Now, I’m going to stop typing because you shouldn’t spend more time reading this post than the video clip is.
I’m waiting for someone to remix...
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Artie Lange Is Making A Return To Radio Tonight!
UPDATE: 11:30am (7.7.11) During the broadcast of the show Lange and DiPaolo covered a wide variety of topics, mostly sports. Lange did disclose that he was in a rehab facility in Florida, DiPaolo mentioned a few times on the air that he looked much better and thinner. Agent Tony Burton tweeted this photo of the two in the studio in which Lange definitely looked thinner and with lighter hair.
The...
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The Laugh Button Live! Is Tonight!
Our live stand-up comedy showcase, The Laugh Button Live! is back. Join us on Wednesday, August 10th at 9:30pm and we promise another great night of comedy by some of the best working stand-up comics in the business. So join us in the Vintage Lounge of Gotham Comedy Club.
THE LAUGH BUTTON LIVE! ON AUGUST 10th!
Featuring Gina Brillon, Joe DeRosa, Kurt Metzger, Rodney Laney, and Sue Costello!...
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JB Smoove Will Soon Bring TheRuckus.com, Joins The...
I think it’s pretty safe to admit the best addition to the cast of Curb Your Enthusiasm has been JB Smoove and his Leon Black character. Now, it’s looking like producers are trying to see if they can replicate the success as they are teaming up Smoove with Sacha Baron Cohen for Cohen’s upcoming film, The Dictator. Let’s he hope he “Whites that shit up!”
The...
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Judy Gold's Off-Broadway Play Opens This Week, Get...
Comedienne Judy Gold just kicked off previews for her new one-woman play Off-Broadway called The Judy Show: My Life as a Sitcom. The show will officially open this Thursday, July 7th.
The show is an autobiographical piece Gold co-wrote with Kate Moira Ryan, and dives into the comedienne’s childhood life up to becoming a a lesbian mother, all told through the lenses of sitcoms she watched...
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Comedy Central Plans To Roast Charlie Sheen
What do you do when Kid Rock cancels on you? You get a warlock. Or at least that’s what Comedy Central decided to do.
The network just announced the next roastee for their series will be none other than Charlie Sheen. Yes indeed, since he’s not going to return to his spot on Two And A Half Men he has some down time. I’m sure as I type this Jeffrey Ross is working on his...
