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Jerry Seinfeld dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to talk about the second season of his web series, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Not only did he do 5 minutes of stand-up which is always a treat, he and Fallon got into it discussing the web series. Twitter, minivan decals and the proper way to address late night hosts. Read More
Jimmy Kimmel aired a video clip about Channing Tatum. Why? Because it’s a great name and can now be used as a euphemism for people having the sex. Since Tatum is out and about promoting his movie Olympus Has Fallen White House Down which hits theaters this weekend, Kimmel gathered the movies two stars, Tatum and Jamie Foxx to make a music video lampooning his name.
The video also features Olivia Munn, Miley Cyrus, and Gabourey Sidibe all helping to relay the fact that you can Channing over anyone’s Tatum as long as it’s not your mom. Read More
Holy smokes! We were psyched to get day 4 of Just For Laughs Chicago up and running! Why? Because we were going to get some face time with some of our favorite comedians! Each and every time we turned around another stellar comedian was coming by our room to shoot some video for us. There were lots of incredible moments including meeting The Tenderlions aka, the cast of TruTV’s Impractical Jokers who were not only great at telling us some prank stories. Who woulda thought that a bunch of guys that host a prank TV show would have some good prank stories right? Also dropping in were the always terrific John Hodgman got a bit physical with the comedy and hitting the floor. Read More
Nate Bargatze was the guest comedian on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and since he’s one of the nicest and funniest comedians out there, something Fallon echoed himself at the top of the show. Bargatze talked about his new family and New York City and where the two should and should not intersect. Go get ‘em sniper!
The creep factor is high on this one, as is the hilarity. Tonight on Inside Amy Schumer the sketch, “Four Handed Massage” puts Amy in a massage parlor with two creepy individuals played by comedians Robert Kelly and Jim Norton. Creepy! I know! It’s a simple premise that they’re really good at creeping the sh*t out of us with.
Salon.com posted an article about a South Carolina minister named Sammy Rhodes aka @prodigalsam who has been accused of stealing jokes by many high-profile comedians like Patton Oswalt, Rob Delaney, Louis C.K., and John Mulaney.
In fact, Rhodes has built quite the following on Twitter, gaining nearly 130,000 followers by taking the words of others and tweeting them as his own. The article also points out the existence of a Tumblr account that document’s Rhodes’ more questionable tweets. Looking over them there’s more than a passing coincidence in much of the evidence.
The weirdest part of this story is how Rhodes thought nobody would notice the joke lifting. Mainly because he took ones from some of the most popular people on Twitter. It’s not as if Delaney and Oswalt aren’t huge on Twitter and followed by many. Granted, there’s sometimes obvious jokes that many come up with simultaneously but these seem to have stepped outside the realm of coincidence.
Rhodes has issued a story about why he reposts tweets. However, rather than addressing the joke thievery, he more states why he decides to “recycle” and “rerun” his own material. He’s also since noted that he might slow down on his Tweets. But, as of the writing of this story Rhodes’ Twitter account now seems to have been deleted. Read More
Another teaser clip of the forthcoming HBO comedy, Clear History is amongst us. It stars Jon Hamm and Larry David, bearded and with long hair in what I can best describe as “Lebowski-esque.” David not only stars in the film but co-wrote and produced it, which premieres on August 10th. So far, all we’re able to gather from the show is that it’s about electric cars and Larry David unravels his best Larry David-sims.
