Get out and support Caleb Medley at these benefit shows

It’s been a little over a week since comedian Caleb Medley was one of those shot at the midnight screening of The Dark Knight Rises in a movie theater in Aurora, CO. Caleb was struck in the head, has since lost an eye and put into a medically-induced coma.

Since the shooting, Caleb became a father as his wife gave birth to a baby boy, Hugo, just hours after the shooting. Many graciously donated to his fund to pay for mounting medical bills. Now some fellow comedians are coming together to put on benefit shows to raise even more money for the comedian. Read the rest of this entry

The Comedy Cellar featured in The NY Times

The NY Times just ran a story about one of New York’s best comedy clubs, The Comedy Cellar. It’s piece about the hallowed halls of the venue telling the story from the angle of the headshots of the comedians that hang on the walls.

Though there’s no mention of the infamous table that plays home to many comedians, its still worth the quick read.

Well, I guess The Hangover 3 is happening. There is this poster after all.

The Hangover 3 They’re still going through with another installment of The Hangover. How do we know this you ask? Well first off, the last movie made $500 million worldwide. And second of all, the flick’s movie house released a promotional image for the movie. And we all know if the image exists, the movie will as well.

While the image reveals nothing about the plot this time around, I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume they took the screenplay for the first movie and crossed out all mentions of Las Vegas. Then they crossed out all mentions of when they crossed out Las Vegas and penciled in Bangkok for the second album. And for the third movie, they will just pencil in a new exotic locale and get a different cute little animal (my vote is French Bulldog or a Corgi). Then again, no great trilogy is complete without Ewoks, so maybe the new exotic location is the moon of Endor! **throws hands to the heavens in jubilation**

Bunk! An interview with Kurt Braunohler

During the Just For Laughs festival, we had the opportunity to sit down with Kurt Braunohler to discuss his TV show BUNK, shed some light on upcoming projects with his writing partner Kristen Schaal, and broke down the differences between American and UK comedy audiences.

And if that wasn’t enough, Kurt elaborated offered up sagely advice for anyone getting their start into comedy.

Schumer, Jeselnik, and Ross on the dais for the Roast of Roseanne Barr

The Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne Barr is set to be recorded next week in LA. One of the largest questions always asked is who will be on hand to fire barbs at the guest of honor. EW is reporting our predicted comedians on the dais will include Jeff Ross, Amy Schumer, and Anthony Jeselnik with the previously announced roastmaster Jane Lynch.

There’s always a few stars that show up to these as well, this time around Sharon Stone, Carrie Fisher, Katey Segal, and Seth Green will all join in on the roasting action.

This lineup does raise the question as to the small amount of comedians on the dais. While Jeselnik, Schumer, and Ross are more than capable to handle the task at hand, celebs aren’t often as good at the biting jokes. And biting they are! We caught Anthony Jeselnik’s performance at Just For Laughs and he gave a preview of some of his jokes for the roast, he is going to destroy!

The roast will tape this weekend, August 4th and air on Comedy Central August 12th.

UPDATE: Gilbert Gottfried, Ellen Barkin, and Wayne Brady have been added to the dais.

An interview with My Damn Channel creator, Rob Barnett

During the madness of Just For Laughs we got the chance to sit down with the founder of My Damn Channel, Rob Barnett. Barnett and My Damn Channel are about to celebrate its 5th year in business. We sat down to talk with Barnett to get advice on the changing state of the industry and building an audience.

Happy birthday, first of all!

(laughs) Thank you! Yeah, where’s my cake? Read the rest of this entry

This Week In Comedy: With Community tattoos

Community Tattoo We spent most of last week in Montreal for the Just For Laughs Festival catching tons of great stand-up interviewing comedians, talking to other fans, and generally enjoying ourselves. We’ll spend most of the week recapping what went down and you can follow all our JFL action right here. Let’s do it.

Help bring Mike Birbiglia’s movie, Sleepwalk With Me to your town. [This American Life]
An animated clip of Reggie Watts telling a story about a time he encountered some Philadelphia Flyers fans. [The A.V. Club]
It shouldn’t shock you that The Colbert Report and The Daily Show were renewed. [Deadline]
Nor should it surprise you Louie was renewed for season 4. [Warming Glow]
There was a stabbing at a Tenacious D concert. [TMZ]

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Robert Kelly and Godfrey to star in new FX comedy

Robert Kelly, Godfrey Robert Kelly and Godfrey have been cast to star in a new half-hour comedy pilot for FX.

The show, Bronx Warrants will feature Kelly and Godfrey as DeStefano and TJ, a pair of warrant detectives in the Bronx who are assigned to arrest people with outstanding warrants. Since the duo get bonuses based on their arrests, they’re more out to get rich than get justice. A buddy-cop show with Robert Kelly and Godfrey? Sign us up!

The production team of Denis Leary and Jim Serpico (Apostle) created the show along with Dean Lorey and all three will serve as executive producers of the show. The show is also based on co-producers David Joglar and Richard Wetzel’s real life exploits.

Congrats Robert and Godfrey, this is big news for two really terrific men and funny comedians!