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I don't know about you, but I always start my day off with a visit to videocum.com. But today, the bagel guy put too much butter on my whole-wheat raisin curry, and I typed "videogum.com" into my browser. Guess what though? There's a blog there!
Dreamed up by the people behind Stereogum, Videogum is a new site covering TV, movies, web videos and games. It's written by two geniuses: Lindsay Robertson, who you may know as the editor of the blog you're reading right now before the gig was passed on to me, and Gabe Delahaye, who writes Corporate-Casual, a blog so original and funny it makes my brain weep from feelings of comedic inadequacy (nullus).
The highlight of the night was seeing the premiere of the Kanye West video Zach filmed on his farm in North Carolina, which was absolutely hilarious. As soon as it's on the internet we'll put it here!
I just spent the last forty-five minutes scouring the internet and bothering coworkers, all in hopes of finding the official medical term for fear of bears, bear phobia, or whatever you call it. Know what I found? NOTHING. To quote Lindsay, "This is just ridiculous. Everyone should be afraid of bears. Maybe it's just assumed."
Maybe. Anyway, I like how "grave distrust of bears" has become a theme amongst some of our favorite comedians. It's like we're in a Golden Age of Bear Humor:
Okay, so I know most readers of Esquire (except me) are probably not comedy sophisticates, but my first impression reading their list of "up and coming" comedians was "Are you f**king kidding me, Esquire?"
This thing is so offensive to the comedy fan that I have no choice but to do a line-by-line analysis.
First, the premise: "Will the Next Dane Cook Please Stand Up?" Nothing against Dane Cook, who has worked hard to gain exactly the success he has, but it's a bit insulting to assume every comedian has a career goal of starring in Jessica Simpson movies. And then they go on to insult Dane Cook anyway! So why do they want "the next" one? (Answer: they needed an easy angle for their story) Next, this jaw-dropper, italics mine: "While many now think Cook's Burger King-based comedic stylings are
shit, that shit has provided the fertilizer for a bumper crop of
brilliant new-alt comics, all of whom are launching careers the same
way Cook did -- using the Internet and bubbling up from the
underground."
Um, excuse me? Are you actually saying that David Cross, who any comedy fan recognizes as one of the most influential comedians of his generation (the most influential TV show: Mr. Show with Bob and David), is "launching a career" on the back of Dane Cook? I want to punch something.
Now, Their List:
1. "David Cross: The Front Runner" Yeah, no f**king sh*t. See above.
2. "Aziz Ansari: The Internet Sensation" I'll give them this one on the "Esquire readers might appreciate discovering Aziz while looking for new ways of tying $250 ties or whatever" curve. But his success has nothing to do with Dane Cook.
3. "Demetri Martin: The Straight Man" Yeah. Also: "Demetri Martin: The Comedian We Get Fan Letters About From Actual Grandmas in Nursing Homes". Also, uh, Reader's Digest scooped you back in January. That has to hurt.
4. Flight of the Conchords: The Musical Duo Nice!! It's only the most talked about show of the summer. Also, your prediction: "What’s next: Becoming the next Tenacious D, one raunchy sex song at a time." The next Tenacious D, you say? Oh, you mean the same Tenacious D that the aforementioned David Cross helped discover and produce? Just checking!
5. "Patton Oswalt: The Best Part of Anything He's In" Spit take! Now I'm starting to think this list is intended to cause heart attacks. While Patton Oswalt is indeed the best part of anything he's in, if you're old enough to read Esquire and have not yet heard of Patton Oswalt, you are probably not now nor will ever be a comedy fan. Your disclosure: "(And also, he's written for Esquire)" And I'm sure he'll be dying to again now that you've suggested that his entire career grew up from the fertilizer of Dane Cook's shit!
6. "Ben Gleib: The Hidden Camera Guy" Okay, you got me: I've never heard of this guy. But judging from your description:
You know him ‘cause: He was the only funny part of The Real Wedding Crashers His funniest bit involves...: Calling a random audience member out for a gaudy piece of clothing – and then biting on him for the entirety of his set.
I gather that 1. you watch The Real Wedding Crashers and 2. You have never seen a live comedy show other than this guy's because that's called "crowd work" and is most often (though not always) associated with hacks.
Which, when I think about it, means at least 1/6th of this list could be correct. Thanks, Esquire! I'll look for this last dude in the next Jessica Simpson vehicle!
Later this week: I'll give you OUR list of up and coming comedians. (And maybe I'll throw in some incorrect instructions for tying a Windsor knot just to make things even.)
The Summer of Laughter 2007: Summer Comedy Countdown: #3
(1967 was the summer of love (ask your grandparents), and a plethora of factors (the sleeper hit comedies of '05, Judd Apatow, People Who Used to be on "The State") have come together to poise the summer of 2007 to be one of the best ever for comedy movies! Wooo!!! From now until the Friday after Labor Day, we'll be helping you make informed choices about your summer comedy viewing, with a little help from our friends from the comedy world. Wondering when a comedy comes out? Check out our comprehensive comedy movie release date calendar!)
First: the countdown: I did an informal poll of co-workers, friends, contributors to this blog, and comedy people, presenting them with the names of every comedy opening in the US between now and the Friday after Labor Day and asking one question:
Which comedy movie or movies are you MOST looking forward to this summer and why?
Each day this week I'm counting down the top 5 from my informal poll, with a few choice quotes (some from people who were in the movies!) Watch the trailers and decide for yourself!
3. Balls of Fury Release Date: August 31 Official Site/Trailer: Balls of Fury
Anticipated Because: It's another movie by alumni of The State (in this case, Reno 911!'s Ben Garant and Tom Lennon). And any movie whose title won't have to be changed for the adult film version is good with us.
Choice Quotes:
"I'm just glad that all the Asians in Hollywood get to do something together now that 4 Fast 4 Furious might not be in the works. Also, dude from Heroes always seems funny to me." - Andrew Ti
"Christopher Walken looks like a geisha and it's written by my two favorite members of the state. Gold." - Rob Penty
"To see if Thomas Lennon wears shorts in this project too, and to see if director Robert Ben Garant "got the best" out of Walken."Joe Lo Truglio
"Christopher Walken in ethnic drag, Maggie Q as the inexplicable love interest to Dan Fogler, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa reduced to "mysterious Asian man." It's enough to raise every PC/angry asian hackle on the back of my neck. But then I saw the trailer with James Hong's rib-tickling takes and found out R. Ben Garant/Tom Lennon penned the script. Throw in Patton, Brian Posehn, Terry Hughes and Kerri Kenney-Silver into the mix - I'm willing to give it a shot." - Dustin Chinn
The Summer of Laughter 2007: Summer Comedy Countdown: #4
(1967 was the summer of love (ask your grandparents), and a plethora of
factors (the sleeper hit comedies of '05, Judd Apatow, People Who Used to be on "The State") have come
together to poise the summer of 2007 to be one of the best ever
for comedy movies! Wooo!!! From now until the Friday after Labor Day, we'll be helping
you make informed choices about your summer comedy viewing, with a
little help from our friends from the comedy world. Wondering when a comedy comes out? Check out our comprehensive comedy movie release date calendar!)
First: the countdown: I did an informal poll of co-workers, friends,
contributors to this blog, and comedy people, presenting them with the
names of every comedy opening in the US between now and the Friday
after Labor Day and asking one question:
Which comedy movie or movies are you MOST looking forward to this summer and why?
Each day this week I'm counting down the top 5 from my informal poll, with a few choice quotes (some from people who were in the movies!) Watch the trailers and decide for yourself!
Synopsis: A rat named Remy (voiced by Patton Oswalt) dreams of becoming a famous chef.
Anticipated Because: We are the hardest-core Patton Oswalt fans who exist in the world. And he wouldn't do this if the script sucked!
Choice Quotes:
"Brad Bird is the closest thing to animation's Judd Apatow since . . . Pixar head honcho John Lasseter, genuinely funny and moving without insulting the intelligence of adults or kids. Patton Oswalt could be reading a French tax code I'd show up - he sits that high in the pantheon." - Dustin Chinn
"The only thing I love more than comedy is food, and as delicious as that sandwich was in Spanglish, Ratatouille looks like the funniest food movie since Salo. Also, I hope Ratatouille is a gigantic success so that 1) Patton Oswalt gets to do whatever projects he wants and 2) an entire generation of children are falling asleep each night to the sounds of Patton's voice. This will condition them for good comedy later in life." - Max Silvestri, Comedian
(We'll be covering Ratatouille until it comes out, and stay
tuned each day this week for the rest of our Top 5 Summer comedy
countdown.)
The Summer of Laughter 2007: Summer Comedy Countdown and Calendar
(1967 was the summer of love (ask your grandparents), and a plethora of
factors (the sleeper hit comedies of '05, Judd Apatow, People Who Used to be on "The State") have come
together to poise the summer of 2007 to be one of the best ever
for comedy movies! Wooo!!! From now until the Friday after Labor Day, we'll be helping
you make informed choices about your summer comedy viewing, with a
little help from our friends from the comedy world. Wondering when a comedy comes out? Check out our comprehensive comedy movie release date calendar!)
First: the countdown: I did an informal poll of co-workers, friends,
contributors to this blog, and comedy people, presenting them with the
names of every comedy opening in the US between now and the Friday
after Labor Day and asking one question:
Which comedy movie or movies are you MOST looking forward to this summer and why?
Each day this week I'll be counting down the top 5 from my informal poll, with a few choice quotes (some from people who were in the movies!) Watch the trailers and decide for yourself!
#5: The Brothers Solomon Release Date: September 7 Official Site (including unrated trailer)
Synopsis: Will Arnett and Will Forte are two home-schooled brothers who must fulfill their dying father's wish by getting someone, uh, knocked up. Written by Will Forte, directed by Bob Odenkirk.
Anticipated Because: We are the hardest-core Bob Odenkirk fans in the world.
Choice Quotes:
"I'm looking forward to "The Brothers Solomon," because its director, Bob Odenkirk, told me he thought I would enjoy it. Normally, that wouldn't be very convincing, but Odenkirk had just told me *he* didn't enjoy two of his three previous films." - Jesse Thorn, The Sound of Young America
"Though it's going to suffer in unfair comparison to another man-child-dealing-with-parenting comedy, I'm digging "The Brothers Solomon" because of the Bob Odenkirk pedigree, the hilariously smarmy Will Arnett and the wonderfully sick red band trailer has some great smart dumb jokes. (Yes, a cold Dixie cup is an unappealing way to describe a vagina.)" - Todd Jackson, Dead-Frog.com
(We'll be covering The Brothers Solomon until it comes out, and stay tuned each day this week for the rest of our Top 5 Summer comedy countdown.)
This new David Cross gay fan fiction (NSFW!) is clearly a joke, and not in the way that all fan fiction is a joke, in a "this is the only fan fiction this person has every written and this person may or may not be a friend of David Cross's" joke, but pretty much every single word of it is hysterically funny. Like:
"The song was a good one, with a four-four untz-untz-untz-untz with some
stellar synthesizers in the background. David Cross thrusted his hips
like he had like he had never thrursted before in his life, and his
bald, shiny head reflected the light from the disco ball ten feet above
the dance floor."
"TDS audience...I'm not going to mince words...YOU'RE KIND OF F**KING SH*T UP..."
I've personally never seen so many expletives in a letter where the point is basically "be respectful", but I think Jon's phrase for this phenomenon is "Settle Down!"
I don't know about the "gonads" part but I don't think the guys would take issue with that characterization. You know, because the whole thing was, like, a joke. Here's the video:
Comedian Max Silvestri's new show, "I Like Attention", premiered Sunday at Rififi in NYC with special guests Todd Barry, Nick Kroll, John Mulaney and others. Max wraps it up on his site with photos and video. My favorite is this one, where Max and his co-host Brian Faas force themselves to re-learn the art of improv:
As we are all aware, Paris Hilton is in prison. TMZ.com asked Reno 911!'s blondest star, Deputy Clementine Johnson, to give Paris some tips to maximize her prison experience:
"Since you'll be staying in the "Special Needs Section" of the prison
(and I'm not sure if this means you're important or retarded), think of
your cell as a special VIP club that only you can get into. Maybe Red
Bull will sponsor it!"
Last night while hosting the MTV Movie awards, Sarah Silverman said "I don't see any movie longer than Cisco Adler's balls. Google it. It'll be a great later laugh." (Video Clip)
So, I did. Presenting, Cisco Adler's balls (NSFW), the Lord of the Rings Trilogy of testicles, if you will.
We've all been a little obsessed with "Knocked Up" around here, ever since we first saw the trailer. In fact, I'm such an Apatow-and-the- gang geek that I passed up a press screening because I want to see the movie on OPENING NIGHT with EXCITED PEOPLE!!
Anyway, the entire point of this post is: KNOCKED UP is finally out!
Also, if you do a Google image search for "Knocked Up", this TOTALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK image is the second result: Knocked Up and Gun Crazy. Heh. Scary.
If you see Knocked Up this weekend, leave your impressions in the comments!
Human Giant member and CC Insider favorite Aziz Ansari did an interview with The Bastion this week about roommates and his astounding degree of creative freedom. If we didn't love him so much, we'd have to hate him a little bit.
If you don't know how to kick people by Wednesday night, you may never know! Because Todd Levin and Bob Powers's long-running (over 3 years!) extremely popular comedy variety show is wrapping up (at least for a while) tomorrow night with a stellar lineup that includes Tom Shillue, Christian Finnegan and Amelie Gillette. All the information is here.
Ted Alexandro and Todd Barry are joining up for a show in Queens next Friday! All the ticket information can be found at this link, which includes this line:
"Ted Alexandro and Todd Barry ride the 7 train to perform separate headlining sets at Queensborough Performing Arts Center."
I (namedrop alert!) know Todd Barry, so I decided to INTERVIEW him. Here is the in-depth INTERVIEW:
LR: The link says that you and Ted will be riding the 7 train to this show. Is this
true?
Todd Barry: "I looked at the directions to the venue. I think it involves taking the 7 then
two busses. That might be too much work! But I will show up."
And so should you! See the link above for more information, and might I suggest hopstop for directions?
UPDATE: Save five bucks by using the special promotional code "mailinglist" when you buy tickets.
Sarah Silverman is on the cover of the June issue of Maxim, and the US Weekly blog has an excerpt of her revealing interview. As a die-hard Sarah Silverman fan, there wasn't a single thing in the excerpt I didn't already know, but this part made me spit vodka-spiked corporate Kool Aid all over my keyboard:
How do you distinguish between a joke about racism and a joke that’s racist?
“By not being retarded?”
Sometimes, something is captured on someone's video camera in a public forum about which, well, the less said the better. (And sometimes, a comedy blogger can feel a little bit like a war reporter, or something that maybe makes this semi-okay.) Presented without (any more) comment, this week's viral video clip (for sure):
Shut up, you know your college roommate was going to send it to you anyway. At least you saw it here first (or 214th or whatever.)
PS: Currently we are gearing up for a live, 24-hour Human Giant MTV (and MTV2) Takeover, which is going to happen at noon on May 18 and continue to May 19. It's going to be insane. It's like a Jerry Lewis Telethon without all the sad videos.
LIP: Ever get drunk and try to find the Amityville Horror House?
PS: No, but I did get drunk and try to find the Seaver's House from Growing Pains but then I sadly found out many years later that house only exists on a back lot in Hollywood. Damn you Alan Thicke, you foiled me again
You know how someone will say something rude and then the other person will say "That should be a Hallmark card?" No? Well at least that happens with my group of friends. Anyway, these mean e-cards are strutting around the web lately. Here are some funny ones:
Via New York Magazine's The Vulture: Daily Show Trendspotter and one of our favorite comedians Demetri Martin stars as a lonely lawyer in the new Fountains of Wayne video, Someone to Love:
Esquire.com has a neat conversation between Shane Black (writer of buddy cop movie Lethal Weapon) and Edgar Wright (director of HYSTERICAL action movie parody Hot Fuzz, currently in theaters.)
It's my personal opinion that the presence of Reno 911!'s Niecy Nash (looking stunning) is the only thing interesting about last weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner.
After the jump, a video interview with Niecy's character, Deputy Raineesha Williams.
In this first episode of CC Insider contributor, comedian, and New York's Funniest Reporter Mandy Stadtmiller's new show, Mandy asks Brooklynites about nicknames and Paris Hilton's vagina. NSFW:
As usual, the highlight of Saturday's SNL was the digital short: Roy Rules! (NSFW)
Trivia: according to wikipedia, Roy is played by SNL writer Brian Tucker, and the short was originally filmed to air on March 17, but was cut after dress rehearsal, presumably because that dress rehearsal audience sucked.
No word yet on whether or not the photo shown is actually Andy Samberg's brother-in-law Roy, but, like, probably, right?
Do you have any pieces or looks that didn’t turn out as well as you think? What is in your costume graveyard? Anne: Prom dresses with neck braces. Sydney: That was a really funny costume, but not pretty at all.
Added Value Video: The Hazzards sing about boys night out, after the jump.
"Insiders said the show will feature Black's trademark poker-faced irony as he comments on a range of pop-culture topics, including one hot-button topic each episode. Show will incorporate sketch comedy, field segments and studio bits from Black, many of them scripted."
Congratulations to Michael and the world! After the jump, Michael's idea of the perfect summer day.
But Bush is no longer a "miserable failure" (I guess they waited for everyone's Great-Grandma to buy a computer and learn how to forward email before disabling that one.)
David Wain and Paul Rudd weren't the only Wet Hot American Summer people to sing karaoke at that Of Montreal show. Our person of the day Michael Showalter did too, IN CHARACTER as Alan Shemper (who, check it out, has a MySpace page.)
This time, he's interviewing MTV's sketch comedy group Human Giant (Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari and Paul Scheer) for Radar Magazine. The interview starts out interesting but normal, and then suddenly takes a confrontational turn:
Showalter: "So when Radar asked me to do this interview, I was like, "This is great," because I feel like I have a kinship with you guys because you're doing a sketch show on MTV and obviously I did a sketch show on MTV. But then I was reading some of your interviews and a lot of people ask you what your influences are and you never mention The State. And I just wanted to know what was up with that."
Kasper Hauser, the hilarious guys behind the book SkyMaul and the Kasper Hauser comedy podcast (among other things) are performing for free next Tuesday in LA at the Comedy Central Stage. Tickets are free but we recommend reserving ASAP if you plan to go (they are popular.)
This is totally not what I thought it was going to be (via Radosh), but in this NSFW youtube director video, country singer "Sandy Belle" posits a new argument for bringing the troops home. Warning: SATIRE:
We've been following the evolution of the new Lewis Black series "The Root of All Evil" from the Craig's List audience announcement to the blog recap of the show. Last week, Comedy Central announced that we are picking up the courtroom-style pilot that puts pop culture on trial with help from guest comedians like Patton Oswalt and Paul F. Tomkins. Congratulations to the world!
After the jump, another description of the show taping, sent in by a reader who was in the audience.
Last night while watching '30 Rock' (while, of course, DVRing South Park) I wondered: "is anyone documenting all of Frank (Judah Friedlander)'s hat slogans on the internet?" Today, I was happy to learn that someone is: Wikipedia, duh. My favorite is "Kung Fu Beech".
If your first reaction to hearing that The Sopranos would be airing on A&E was "Won't each episode have to be censored down to five minutes?", you're thinking along the same lines as this hilarious original video by the College Humor folks:
"I'm gonna...hug your wife. I'm gonna give her...a gift certificate to Bed Bath and Beyond!"
Last month, Stephen Colbert answered the romance novel publisher Harlequin's call for "real men" to grace the covers of their "nightgown novels" with a few sexy samples of his own. Here's my favorite:
The rest, and the Colbert Report video, after the jump.
New York Magazine interviews Daily Show correspondent John Oliver today about New York versus England, and what he does all day (hint: it involves "lies.") Here's John Oliver from a recent Daily Show episode as Senior Kremlin Correspondent:
And more existential dread. If the tendency of local news to make you think you will definitely die in the next 24 hours drives you crazy, you'll love this:
In the hilarious "Diagnosis: Mystery" clip from the Daily Show above, intrepid reporter Jason Jones interviewed self-described "Certified Sexual Re-Orientation Coach" Richard Cohen, who uses fourth-grade hand gestures, burps, and pillow-punching to help gay people become ex-gay people.
This blog comprehensively details how Cohen's behavior on the show (as well as his prior appearances on ABC and CNN, which are linked in the blog post) seems to have led two "ex-gay" organizations, PFox and N.A.R.T.H., to disavow their association with him altogether and purge their websites of his name, articles and books.
But seriously, PFox and N.A.R.T.H.????? Can someone please start a band asap?
Yesterday, the New York Times took on the age-old problem of hecklers, arguing that heckling is on the rise and giving some good publicity for Jamie Kennedy and Michael Addis' new film, Heckler, which premieres later this month at the Tribeca Film Festival. They even found an actual heckler willing to stick up for himself:
"Indeed, Asher Patrick, a temp worker
whose hectoring of the comedian Jamie Kennedy at a Nashville comedy
club last year earned him a brief appearance in the movie, said in a
telephone interview last week that he saw his role as “more of a
critic” than a hooligan."
“I would never go somewhere intentionally to be a jackass,” Mr.
Patrick, 22, said. But Mr. Kennedy’s flatulence jokes were unworthy of
what he considers “good” comedy, he said, and live settings are the
perfect forum to censure unsatisfactory performers. “It’s kind of a
cool opportunity to tell them how terrible they are,” Mr. Patrick said."
Personally, my first reaction to this was that it was kind of a cool opportunity to do a Google search for Asher Patrick and invite commenters to tell him how terrible he is, but apparently Mr. Patrick prefers to do his volunteer "you suck" work in live forums only. Too bad.
Comedian/UCB Theatre bartender Margot Leitman has wrapped up her enlightening column on The Apiary about what it's like to tend bar at UCB. She gets sentimental about takeout and angry about drunk hecklers. A perfect ending to a fascinating backstage report from the epicenter of the always-blowing-up NY comedy scene.
NYC Comedian Harris Bloom (myspace) has been writing short funny anecdotes about the stand-up life for the website Really Small Talk. He's up to entry #6: Stage Fright. (You can read previous entries there, too.)
We get our news from comedy blogs too -- according to The Sound of Young America blog, there's a taping tomorrow night in LA for a new potential Comedy Central show called "The Root of All Evil":
"Come see a live taping of a new Comedy Central show, THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!
Four hilarious comics and one hysterical judge are putting American culture on trial.
Starring LEWIS BLACK, ANDY DALY, GREG GIRALDO, PATTON OSWALT, PAUL F. TOMPKINS and created by David Sacks ("The Simpsons", "Malcom in the Middle") and Scott Carter (HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher", "Politically Incorrect")."
Sounds like a winner to us! If you attend the taping, send us an email!
The Showbiz Show blog reports that Nick Swardson will reprise his role as Scotty Kangaroojus on Thursday's episode (10:30p / 9:30 c)! Here's a video of Nick/Scotty from last season:
When our friends at Best Week Ever told us about Alanis Morissette's ironic video cover of the Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps", our first reaction was to not watch it, fearing that it, like the original, would never leave our heads. But then we watched it (along with the rest of the internet yesterday) and, like, wow! It's kind of sad and funny at the same time!
Anyway, there's a rich history of making pop songs funny by covering them slowly and seriously or in the style of another performer. Here are just three of my favorites:
In this poorly-written New York Post item (is that redundant?), we learn that the chemical cocktail that killed Anna Nicole Smith continues to claim victims: namely, comedian Kathy Griffin, who lost not just a former fellow "Hollywood Squares" square-occupier but a major source of stand-up material on that bleak February day. Her Bravo specials are being edited to lose such short-sighted gems as:
"You don't recover from your mother being Anna Nicole Smith," referring
to Smith's son, the late Daniel Smith. "It's over. See you at Promises."
If only!!!
Anyway, don't fret, Griffin fans: the item also reports that Kathy has "just finished taping her fifth Bravo special called 'Everybody Can Suck It.'" Griffin might want to check the Celebrity Death Pool site before giving specific examples.
Today, The New York Times takes notice of Larry Wilmore, The Daily Show's "Senior Black Correspondent" and driving force behind some of the funniest Daily Show segments of the past few months, including last week's hyperventilation-inducing "The N Word".
In the Times story, Wilmore (also a consulting producer on "The Office") talks about writing, acting, getting recognized on the street, and the line between love and hate.
After the jump, watch all the videos mentioned in the article.
1. Patton Oswalt, despite appearing as Spence (right) on The King of Queens for 9 seasons, has never been to the comedian mecca (really!) that is Queens, New York.
2. TV shows are sometimes taped in different cities than their fictional settings.
3. Journalists sometimes have trouble understanding lesson #2.
"John Oliver was the correspondent for the
night, reporting on British backlash in Syria. We saw him perform just
a week ago at a little bar in the East Village and were blown away by
his stage presence."
A friend stumbled upon this I-so-hope-it's-real website about a new book series meant to comfort the unfortunate: Thank God I...
Okay, I get what they're going for here: the trials and tribulations of life sometimes build character, and we should be grateful for everything that has happened to us, no matter how "bad" it might seem at the time.
That said, this site is a treasure trove of unintentional comedy (most of which I'd probably have to buy "Thank God I...Got Fired" if I pointed out). I mean, I get "Thank God I Was Suicidal", but "Thank God I AM Suicidal" is a bit of a stretch (along the lines of the title in the photo on the right.) And the conspicuous, yet explainable lack of a Thank God I Was/Am Retarded title leads me to believe every book in this series is, well, basically: Thank God I Am Retarded.
My suggestion is that if this series is a Chicken-Soup-esque hit (and you KNOW this series was just MADE for Oprah), they do a spinoff called "Thank God You..." I'd buy one for every friend on every birthday.
As mentioned here last week, blogger Dean Simakis at The Answer May Surprise You got to see David Wain's "The Ten" at the Cleveland Int'l Film Festival last weekend, and has written a full report (including a run-in with Mr. Wain himself). In short: Dean loved it, his parents loved it, and he claims it's even better than Wet Hot American Summer!
Which leads me to a dilemma*: which highly anticipated comedy by extremely talented writers/directors/actors will be THE COMEDY HIT OF THE SUMMER OF 2007???
* We all know they can both be but it's still fun to pit them against each other!
Yesterday's New York Times Magazine had an essay by Patton Oswalt about the subversive joy of shooting guns and then doing yoga. He also coins makes the first use in the New York times of, probably, a brilliant phrase: "internet butt"
This week on South Park, Senator Hillary Clinton comes to town for a big campaign rally:
"The
clock is ticking as the citizens prepare for Hillary Clinton’s big campaign
rally. Every minute counts as Cartman
uses his own methods to interrogate the suspect. But could the plan to target Hillary Clinton
be just the tip of the iceberg?"
This brand-new episode, "The Snuke", premieres Wednesday at 10p / 9c. Another pic, after the jump.
You probably saw the videos this week: Lily Tomlin and David O. Russell fighting on the set of "I Heart Huckabees'. (Frankly, we were too traumatized to link to them here.)
Now, in an interview (and a major scoop) in the Miami New Times, Tomlin addresses the mess in as classy a manner as imaginable:
"She called the episode “in a way liberating… now it’s all over, and so
what, and I don’t have to keep up some great pretention I’m the most
dignified, eloquent, elegant, perfect, smart-thinking, kind, generous
person. I’m just a plain old human with a whole bunch of flaws.”
There's more in the interview, including the now-mandatory reference to Britney's hoo-hah.
The first issue of "the comedians", a new print magazine focusing on New York's vibrant comedy scene, is now available for subscription (or to buy at the Drama Bookshop in Times Square.) The first issue features an in-depth interview with one of our favorite comedians (and contributors), Liam McEneaney.
Calvert DeForest, best known as recurring Letterman character Larry "Bud" Melman, passed away on Monday. In a statement, David Letterman said of his friend: "Everyone always wondered if
Calvert was an actor playing a character, but in reality he was just
himself—a genuine, modest and nice man. To our staff and to our viewers, he was a beloved and valued part of
our show, and we will miss him."
Last month we showed you the teaser trailer for The Ten, the much-anticipated new comedy by David Wain and assorted other The State/Stella folks we all worship over here. This weekend, residents of Cleveland, Ohio will get to see the whole, star-studded movie when it premieres at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Tickets are still available! So not fair! My friend Dean over at The Answer May Surprise You will be in attendance and promises a mini-review next week.
CC Insider contributor Patrick from aLive from New York had his dreams come true this weekend when he met Steve Guttenberg at a performance of "Gutenberg! The Musical". Read all about how Patrick got his copy of "Short Circuit" signed on his blog.
The New York Times tells us a lot of stuff we already knew about the Great Amy Poehler -- she's funny, she works hard, other comedians like her, she's not an asshole, and, get this: she's totally a chick!! We'll forgive them the obviousness of this piece, because Amy rules. After the jump, Amy plays Tammy, the little sick kid who loves Little Donny, in a classic UCB clip.
Variety has proclaimed Knocked Up, Judd Apatow's follow up to The 40 Year Old Virgin, (opening June 1st), nothing less than the messiah of the summer movie season:
(Comedian Christian Finnegan is driving a Kia Sportage around the country on a massive campus tour. We asked him to keep a diary of his escapades. Here is the 5th entry in Christian's Two For Flinching Tour Diary.)
SHOW #6: HAMILTON COLLEGE, FEBRUARY 10th, 2007
The day started off with Nick, The Hammer (our tour manager, Marisa) and myself making the trek from Cincinnati, OH to Syracuse, NY. FYI, there are no direct flights from Cincy to Syracuse—keep this in mind when booking your vacation plans. Anyway, after 107 hours of air travel, we dug Megasus out of a snowdrift and drove another hour to lovely Utica, home of many of your favorite microbrews. We stayed at the historic Hotel Utica, which looks like something straight out of “Billy Bathgate” (available at your local Blockbuster). Seriously, every moment spent at the Hotel Utica is a moment spent expecting to see someone burst through the door, firing a “tommy gun”.
"In the "Family Guy" episode, entitled "Peterotica," a "slightly altered
version of Carol's Theme is playing" while the animated janitor is on
screen, situated next to a bin of blow-up dolls. Additionally, Burnett
takes issue with a "vulgar comment" made by one of the characters in
relation to the star's trademark ear tug."
It is this blogger's belief that there isn't a lot of overlap between people who watch The Family Guy and people who remember Carol Burnett's "trademark ear tug". (Tug, heh.)
"If Mr. Gaffigan’s “meet and greet” in Charlotte was any indication,
audience members can expect customized autographs like the following:
“Jeff, take your hand off my butt”; “Rob, stop hitting on my wife”;
“You’re paler than me”; and “Fat Dan: You make a great omelet.”
The article mentions "Pale Force", the series of animated shorts Jim stars in with Conan O'Brien for Late Night. You can watch episodes on Jim's site. After the jump, video of Jim Gaffigan: on Manatees:
We know Gawker's just 'aving a laff when they claim to have kicked any ass at media bowling last night, but just to milk this for all its worth, here's photographic proof of our victory:
"I can only imagine
the devastation you must be feeling, based on your well known attitudes
towards alternate lifestyles such as the one adopted by SJ. Perhaps
this is just a phase; a period of rebellion from the conservative views
of his famous father. Maybe you can enroll him in the same
rehabilitation clinic that cured Colorado megachurch leader Ted Haggard..."
In response to Gawker's video challenge yesterday, members of our bowling team submitted this video. Really, really late. (Presumably because they were practicing bowling):
We're happy to report that the Comedy Central bowling team (which includes no blog writers -- we would have left Logo out of it, personally) KICKED GAWKER'S BUTTS BY 200 POINTS last night. We have a feeling this might not be over...
In this podcast/mp3 interview, the San Francisco Chronicle talks with Simpsons writer and co-producer Joel Cohen about, among other things, the show's writers' room, his blog, and the long-awaited Simpsons movie.
In my humble, personal opinion that does not necessarily reflect those of Comedy Central ,Viacom, or anyone else, I suggest the f**king v chip for parents too consumed with letter writing campaigns to keep an eye on their own children. (I actually think it's funny, I just wanted to be the first person to link to the FCC's official v chip site with an asterisked expletive.)
Anyway, here's what got Parents Who Use TV As a Babysitter or whatever they're called so riled up. I wouldn't want my kid watching it either. That is why I would put my kid to bed first. But that's just me:
Well, here's a first: last night, Senator and 2008 Presidential Candidate Chris Dodd appeared as a guest on The Daily Show, and blogged the entire experience (including green room video of the Senator and Jon) on his website. This was a fascinating look behind the scenes of the show even for us, and a surprisingly cool thing for a Presidential candidate to do. Senator Dodd, we salute both your commitment to fiscal responsibility and your web-savvy.
After the jump, Senator Dodd's appearance on the show last night.
Comedy Central Germany launched in January (and is apparently a big hit), but I'm just getting around to checking out the website, and it's awesome in a bizarro-world kind of way (and also in a "just plain awesome" way.) I HIGHLY suggest surfing the site on your own (I've been on there for 20 minutes already, and the only German I know is how to say "can I use your lighter". Also, unfortunately the videos don't work in the US.), but here are some things I love about it:
2. One of the most popular video categories is "terror."
3. They have a popular show called "Para Comedy", where disabled people play pranks on bystanders. (Can we get an American version, overlords?)
And then there's the fact that using Babelfish to auto-translate descriptions of Comedy Central shows is sort of addictive (I think I know what 'sarkastischen' is!)
"vehicle controls, energetic determination work and each quantity of private problems keep the colleagues completely beautiful around the gay lieutenant Jim Dangle always appearing in short trousers to the service trab."
"It is the TV Ruepelrocker on high level and at the same time tendency barometer of a whole generation. ' The DAILY one show with Jon Stewart ' is the most popular newscast of the young adults in the USA. It unites skillfully Entertainment with critical, sarkastischen, winged or humorous statements to the situation of the nation. In addition come interviews with world star, which can be looked with the most popular Late Night Talker Jon Stewart regularly."
"Dave Chappelle belongs to the completely large American Comedians... in which the kahlkoepfige superstar takes human in his completely own kind and to allhuman merciless on the schippe. US critics welcomed this Comedy-Sketch-show as phaenomenales TV event. Dave Chappelle provides also in the cinema regularly for sensation."
Number of times reporter Vanessa Grigoriadis calls Trey Parker or Matt Stone a version of "good looking": At least 5 ("shlubby sex appeal", "damn cute", "adorable", etc.)
Number of times the word "pussy" is used: At least 6
Anecdotes involving farting: At least 4
Anecdotes involving the drinking of vomit: 1
Anecdotes involving penises and/or balls: 4
Anecdotes involving a person losing 48 pounds 9 weeks in order to win the contents of a box prepared by Trey Parker: 1
Best revelation:"Neither of the guys take drugs - the last time they took acid was at the Academy Awards in 2000, when they were nominated for Best Song for the South Park movie and showed up dressed as Jennifer Lopez and Gwyneth Paltrow."
The South Park issue of Rolling Stone is on stands now. New episodes of South Park air Wednesdays at 10p / 9c. Blah blah blah awesome.
No matter your religious views, you can appreciate this Christian parody of "Baby Got Back". (It even includes a reminder of how hot the late Mother Theresa was. Awww. Candle in the Wind.):
Just in case you don't have your own access to online news outlets, let us share with you some places to learn about the happenings at this year's Aspen Comedy Arts Festival:
- The LA Times reports that Man of the Year ("Me. Not You.") Stephen Colbert sings Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me" into his mirror every day.
This week's issue of Rolling Stone will feature an exclusive interview with Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who's little show will grace the cover. Tomorrow afternoon, we'll present the cover, exclusively, but until then, here's Rolling Stone's last South Park cover, from 1998:
South Park joins Crystal Meth, Wall Street, and possibly Pearl Jam in still being relevant, after all these years. Check back here tomorrow for the cover!
Related: New episodes of South Park start Wednesday at 10p / 9c
Tipster Greg sent us over to a History Channel message board thread, where a heated discussion rages about whether or not our country should follow "Dave Chappelle's" advice and raise the price of bullets to $5000.
There are at least ten things funny about the thread, not the least of which is that even the more reasonable users neglect to correctly attribute the joke to Chris Rock.
We are such fans of your show! We look forward to watching it as a family!
Because we enjoy you so much, we decided to use THE COLBERT REPORT (featuring you of course) as the theme on my son's birthday cake, wishing him a happy birthday. My son thought it was great!
Thought you'd like to see what you look like on a cake before and....when it's all lit up! Keep up the great job on "The Colbert Report."
Jamie Durham NH
Thanks, Jamie! Our lawyers will be calling you soon. Just kidding! Stephen's face in birthday candle lights, after the jump.
For the past 3 years, Todd Levin and Bob Powers have helped us laugh, cry (from laughing), and hopefully, learn a little bit (about kicking people.) Tonight, they celebrate the 3rd anniversary of "the only comedy reading series in the world" with a show that will be awesome. Info:
HOW TO KICK PEOPLE: "I Coulda Been Someone"
hosted by Bob Powers & Todd Levin, and featuring the talents of:
* JACK KUKODA(comedian, writer for The Onion's new video news network)
* ELLIE KEMPER (creator of the one-person show, DUMB GIRLS; contributor to McSweeney's and The Onion)
*REGGIE WATTS (winner of the 2006 Andy Kaufman Awards)
Tonight! Wednesday, February 28th, at 7:30pm Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction, 34 Avenue A, b/w 2nd and 3rd Streets Tickets: $8 (advance tickets here)
The Michael Showalter Showalter continues to be the funniest interview show on the web (maybe the funniest web show, period. Maybe the funniest interview show, period.) In this episode, Michael interviews (annoys) his friend Michael Ian Black. Just watch:
Most of our reader mail consists of entreaties to Stephen and/or Jon to cover local scandals, or suggestions for jokes or guests for the show. We kind of delete them immediately because this isn't the right place (sorry, some of the ideas are really good).
But sometimes a gem like this comes in and the reader must be rewarded.
Mr. Colbert - I have been a steady admirer of yours since the days of your enhancement of the Jon Stewart Show and have admired your non sense of color and truthiness. I find that I too am color blind to race and have been stressing on how to help you find a new black friend after the unexplained loss of yours.
Recently I have made a new black friend and therefore find myself with more riches than I can find time for and am therefore willing to donate my spare black friend (people tell me he is black. I hope it isn't a cruel joke at my expense) to you.
He is friendly, has a fine sense of humor, hard working and loyal. I think that you would enjoy his companionship in those late hours when you find yourself alone.
Here's his picture should you wish to examine the donation before accepting it.
Before he was Steve on the Sarah Silverman Program, Steve Agee found a very specific type LA/Independent/Hipster/Internet fame on Channel 101, the television network on the internet, which was co-created by Sarah Silverman Program Executive Producer/Creator/Director Rob Schrab. Appearing in numerous shows, including the hilarious Yacht Rock , Kicked In The Nuts, and Phone Sexxers, to name a short selection, Steve racked up hilarious role after hilarious role, culminating in a Channel 101 Life Time Achievement award.
Working with some of Hollywood's true legends, Rob Schrab was able to pull together an amazing tribute to Steve, his work, and his legend. Shhhhhh, let's just watch: Steve Agee Channel 101 Lifetime Achievement. (Even if you've never heard of any of these folks, it's still hilarious!):
After the jump: other awesome Channel 101 moments...
Just in time for the Oscars (Sunday) and the premiere of Season 3 of The Showbiz Show with David Spade (March 15), comes theshowbizshow.com, which includes a blog about those crazy celebrites! But if you're expecting a series of 'razzi photos with scrawled epithets and white nose-dots that are supposed to be drugs or semen or something, YOU WILL BE DISAPPOINTED, because they simply don't possess that kind of technology.
What you will get is constant blogging by the show's writers and performers, including David Spade himself, who will be live-blogging Sunday night's Oscars. And he already seems thrilled about it. (I think that's how we know it's really him.)
Theshowbizshow.com will be to the internet what the Showbiz Show is to TV -- the guy with the epiphany at the end of the all-night fame party who suddenly stands up and says "Dudes, this stuff turns everybody into assholes." Anyway, it's going to be good so add it to your RSS feed.
Also, how hot is Jessi Klein (who will also be blogging), and how much have you missed her since Season 2? I Netflixed The Lake House just to see if it was as ridiculous as she described it. Hint: it was.
The Oscar live-blogging starts at 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific.
As part of their promotion of Reno 911!: Miami (which hits theaters this Friday), Deputy Travis Junior and Lt. Jim Dangle joined Dallas' Fox 4 Street Squad in catching actual stop sign runners, with hilarious results (video). We especially love the outtakes. Those rich Dallas drivers think they're above the law!
Here at the Comedy Central Insider, we like listening to you. And the main thing you say when you see this site is, apparently: "Who the f**k writes this sh*t?"
So, introducing us: the people who write this sh*t. From now on we'll be using our real names (except for Kittenpants, but her real name is on the Contributors page. Hint: it's Darci. Darci Ratliff.)
Read our bios here. Send us emails here. Pick favorites! Pit us against each other! Whatever. Just don't tell our parents this is what we're doing with our respective college educations.
From a reader, Courtney, comes our new desktop wallpaper:
"I was lost one day driving in Bridgeport, PA when I noticed these street signs. This is completely real...no Photoshopping. The best intersection ever!"
The 1/2 Hour News Hour, part of Fox News' attempt to lure in that coveted 18-34 demographic, premiered tonight, and writers from the CC Insider were among the dozens of people watching. Let's take a look at some of the show's subject matter...
Marion Barry
An ACLU case from 1977
Ed Begley, Jr.
The Bygone Era of the Obvious Laugh Track
"Angry Lesbians"
Che Guevara
Chairman Mao
In what decade did they write this show? Did they really devote the show's running gag to Ed Begley, Jr.? Really? Ed Begley, Jr.??? (For those of you under the age of 30, Ed Begley, Jr. is a character actor who used to get some press last millennium for his advocation of hybrid cars, such as the Toyota Prius, which is, like, doing well or something.) Did cast member Susan Yeagley steal these jokes from her husband Kevin Nealon's old Commodore 64?
In all fairness, the show did have a few decent bits, including a rather clever segment in which an expert could link any problem in the world to Global Warming in six steps or less. And they referenced a book for mentally underdeveloped children called "The Little Engine That Couldn't Quite." (Really, who doesn't have a soft spot for a retard joke?)
But so much of the rest of the show was just so helplessly out of touch and soft that it seems questionable what good it will do for anyone. Even a brief showing by brilliant alternative comedian Ann Coulter--who, for years, has managed to trick most of the country into believing that he's a vitriolic female conservative--couldn't pull the show above the level of a high school AV club produced parody.
With its resurrected jokes and lifeless delivery, the show seems unlikely to appeal to anyone except your conservative great-uncle and the completely untapped zombie demographic.
Please, if you've seen the show, give us your opinions.
If you've been paying attention for the past couple days, we've been making fun of Fox News' "The 1/2 News Hour". Every day. And as long as it's around, we're never, ever going to stop.
So imagine our surprise when we visited the Daily Show site on comedycentral.com this morning...
No, Google news, we didn't mean American Dream. We meant "Americone Dream", the new Ben & Jerry's flavor named after our hero, Stephen Colbert. Nation, rejoice!
Once again, the humor-friendly artist Brandon Bird is offering Law and Order themed Valentines (including a new Criminal Intent card just for 2007.) You can admire them, and/or order them belatedly, here.
Fake journalism has a long and storied tradition - from Mark Twain’s hoaxes and Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds broadcast, to The Onion, The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. And Fox News. And Borat. And zzzzzzz... To add another worthy entry in this cluttered field, we have to hop in the Wayback Machine to 1960’s San Francisco. Kids, meet Coyle & Sharpe.
Armed with tape recorders, and occasionally film cameras, Coyle & Sharpe ambushed unsuspecting folks in the Bay Area, asking strange questions and making odd requests. Can we make an LP recording of your brain waves? Can we grow a genetically engineered ashtray on your forehead? Hey, join our cult! And so on.
Their comedy is surprisingly fresh and trippily inventive. And they have a new box set out – listen to samples at their website, coyleandsharpe.com.
Also, the best radio show in the entire world, The Sound of Young America, interviewed Mal Sharpe last year for a show called "The Impostors". You can download the mp3 for free here.
CityRag brings us a mockumentary from 1999 about Derrick "Hands" Wilson, professional clapper. It co-stars Mary Lynn Rajskub and Brian Posehn, and it's awesome:
Last night, as predicted, Justin Timberlake was joined onstage at his Madison Sq Garden show by Andy Samberg, where they reprised their roles as purveyors of the gift that keeps on giving. College Humor got the video:
(Comedian Christian Finnegan is driving a Kia Sportage around the country on a massive campus tour. We asked him to keep a diary of his escapades. Here is the 3rd entry in Christian's Two For Flinching Tour Diary.)
Entry #3: Northwestern University
Ah, Evanston. If Chicago is "my kind of town", Evanston is "my kind of crappy 3rd tier suburb"! For this gig, we temporarily abandoned Megasus and flew out to O'Hare. It was me, Nick Thune and the wicked talented Joe DeRosa (yeah that's right, I said "wicked talented"), who's also appearing on a whole slew of TFF dates.
Upon in arriving in the Chicago area, we piled into a cab and told the driver the name of our hotel. After about 30 minutes of idle banter, Nick noticed that we driving into downtown Chicago, despite the fact that our hotel was supposed to be "insanely close to the airport". Have you ever had a shouting match with someone speaks basically no English? In NYC we call that "every morning", but if you've never had the pleasure, let me give you this one piece of advice: try to avoid accidently imitating the person you're arguing with. Shouting "YOU GO WRONG WAY!!" and "ME NO PAY!!" doesn't get your point across any more clearly than using proper English and chances are you'll be left wondering if you're a racist.
It's another edition of the Comedy Central Mailbag, where we share with you the most entertaining contents of our inbox, and let you decide (in your head) whether they're FUNNY, CRAZY, or BOTH! Let's play Mailbag, which is neither a game nor a contest! (And remember to send us your emails! We don't name names.)
This edition (indisputably FUNNY): Global Warming Has a Sense of Humor
From: Reader George
"Attached is a picture we took last summer in Whittier, Alaska. The pic says it all."
After the jump: George is, uh, right. Desktop wallpaper, anyone?
Those crazy, corporate-resource-having kids over at Best Week Ever took Clay Aiken up on a supposed plea to be scandalized and made this: Dateline: To Catch A Predator: Clay Aiken:
Last Thursday, comedy blogger aLive From New York wrote a recap of last week's Invite Them Up, Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale's comedy variety show, which included the following:
"During the break we spotted Zak Orth (Wet Hot American Summer) in the crowd and talked about the awesome job he did playing a college student-turned-rapist on Law and Order: SVU. Then, minutes later, Eugene Mirman read aloud his answers from the "21 Questions" feature he's doing for an upcoming New York magazine. The last question was "What makes someone a New Yorker?" Eugene's answer: "Being on Law and Order." We looked at each other and laughed, and then noticed the girl next to us poking the guy she was with in a "Hey, that's you!" kind of way. And I wondered, how many people in this room have been on Law and Order?"
"The New York Magazine interview in question went up this afternoon. (Our favorite: Q: When's bedtime? A:"Whenever I'm done f**king")
"...we put a call in to the ice cream company, and got this coy reply from spokesman Rob Michalak: "I can neither confirm nor deny it. But I can say there's been a lot of experimentation with red, white and blue."
Salon suggests "Stephen Colberry" (left), but is soliciting other suggestions and will share the best later this week.
(We just hope there are little chocolate cookie bears in it.)
It's another edition of the Comedy Central Mailbag, where we share with you the most entertaining contents of our inbox, and let you decide (in your head) whether they're FUNNY, CRAZY, or BOTH! Let's play Mailbag, which is neither a game nor a contest! (And remember to send us your emails! We don't name (last)names.)
This edition: Is Bill O'Reilly a Godless Killing Machine?
"Here’s a question for you:Bears, as well all know, are America's #1 Threat. (#1 on the Threat down, people). Yet, Colbert refers to his mentor as 'Papa Bear' ...
Now, I'm no 'factologist,' but it seems to me ... that if Bears are 'godless killing machines' and Bill O'Reilly is 'Papa Bear'
Well ...doesn't that make Bill O'Reilly a Godless Killing Machine?"
- David, New York
(David: as David Duchovny's character in Zoolander would have said: "Keep pulling the sweater...")
As promised, video from Sarah Silverman's appearance on 'The View' this morning. (This isn't the clip we'd choose, but it's something. Thanks to Gawker for the video.)
Sarah Silverman was on 'The View' this morning, but no video is up yet (we'll keep you posted.) What you missed:
- The View women predictably asking Sarah about Michael Richards, Joe Biden, the N Word, and what it's like to be pretty. While sitting far, far away from her.
- Sarah confessing to having her arms waxed for the appearance.
- Sarah telling a hilarious story about introducing her boyfriend, Jimmy Kimmel, to one of the writers on her show: "I said "'Chris, this is my boyfriend Jimmy', and Chris sat up from his desk and was completely naked from the waist down. No pants, no underwear: just the promise of a penis."
The Sarah Silverman Program premieres tonight at 10:30p / 9:30c, after the Scient "Chef joins a fruity cult" episode of South Park!
They've since fixed the error, but we expect a full apology from Fox News for blaming us for the Cartoon Network's guerrilla-marketing-gone-wrong. (Okay, we won't hold our breath.)
We do, however, claim full responsibility for any indecent exposure charges a certain Trucker might be hit with...
Ever wonder about the poor schmucks whose high school yearbook photos have saturated every corner of the internet in Classmates.com ads since, like 1995?
Uhhhh, we're not quite sure about that last one, but it seems that critics have warmed up to The Sarah Silverman Program, which premieres tomorrow at 10:30p / 9:30c on guess which channel!
It's another edition of the Comedy Central Mailbag, where we share with you the most entertaining contents of our inbox, and let you decide (in your head) whether they're FUNNY, CRAZY, or BOTH! Let's play Mailbag, which is neither a game nor a contest! (And remember to send us your emails! We don't name names.)
This edition:
Pronounce It Or Leave It
“I am President of the Letter T Society and I must protest Mr. Colbert's insistence on making the letter T silent. That might have flown in France, or whatever Communist country he's from, but in America we're proud of our letters. Start making T's silent and the next victim will be P or W. See what I mean? In America we don't hide letters and except for stupid words like knowledge and Stephen, as Mr. Colbert has pointed out, we don't make them silent either. Even when America bans stuff like alcohol we announce it with pride. We called them speakeasy's not un-speakeasy's
Bottom line here: America: Pronounce it or leave it.”
(As usual with mailbag: we hope he's kidding! But there seems to be no "letter T society"...)
Fans of The State, Stella, Reno 911!,Wet Hot American Summer, Winona Ryder, Paul Rudd, Rob Corddry, Jessica Alba, Adam Brody, Liev Schreiber, and/or funny movies will no doubt be salivating with anticipation for the Sundance hit "The Ten".
Directed by Wet Hot American Summer writer/director David Wain, The Ten is an ensemble comedy about the Ten Commandments, or something. (The State crew has us at "we made something", so details aren't that important.)
Last year, Ricky Gervais interviewed Larry David, Christopher Guest, and Garry Shandling for the UK's Channel 4. Here's the first part of his Larry David interview:
(That's not the permanent logo, it's just the lamest one we could find.)
Introducing the Comedy Central Mailbag, where we share with you the most entertaining contents of our inbox, and let you decide (in your head) whether they're FUNNY, CRAZY, or BOTH! Let's play Mailbag, which is neither a game nor a contest! (And remember to send us your emails!)
This edition: We 'Make White People Look Stupid' On Shows That Haven't Even Premiered Yet!