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    • Keep animated series ‘Death Row Diet’ alive and get a clean bathroom

    Emmy award winning comedian Jonathan Katz (Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist) and animator Mike Salva made an animated short called Death Row Diet about a prison inmate who is on death row as well as Weight Watchers. The short was successful at film festivals such as the New York Television festival, during which it won an award for TV pilots. However, when studio funding was pulled from plans to expand the short into an animated series, the creators did what all creative types who are strapped for cash do in 2013 and turned to Kickstarter. Their plan is to make an animated series featuring the main character’s life in prison, and will release the series on streaming sites like Hulu or Netflix. The rewards for donating money range from standards such as digital downloads or a credit at the end of the episode to having Mike Salva and show writer Sean Parrott personally clean your bathroom.

    The Kickstarter campaign ends on July 11, and has raised $988 of its $20,000 goal so far. If you’re a fan of Weight Watchers, prison humor or Jonathan Katz without squiggle vision, you might want to think about donating. Meanwhile, you can check out the short that inspired the tentative series after the jump. Read More

    Aziz Ansari is testing out new material, offering ‘Work In Progress’ lottery for tickets

    Aziz Ansari - Work in ProgressAziz Ansari is currently working on new material for his next hour of stand-up comedy and is looking for specific audiences to get the best material possible. The comedian says that reactions to his comedy vary among different groups of people. What might be a hit for single men from 18-25, might be offensive to single men over 35, or married people over 40. This is where Ansari got the idea to host small shows with specific audiences so he can test what appeals to one certain group at a time.

    Tickets to two shows he’s putting on this Tuesday (6/11) are $10 and will be lottery based. Ansari also alluded that there would be more shows/tickets available in the very near future so keep checking the site daily or stalk him on Twitter for updates. Also, there is no way to scalp or lie about your age to get in because everyone’s name will be put on a list and a valid ID needs to be presented at the door for admittance. Enter here for the ticket lottery for you and a guest in New York City on June 11 at 7pm. Entries will be accepted until 11:59 pm the night before and venue information will be e-mailed to all lottery winners.

    ‘The Internship’ pulls mild response from box office and critics

    The InternshipGoogle is probably used to better launches than the response from the 90-minute feature film ad, The Internship.

    Reuniting Wedding Crasher’s Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, the comedy flick had little box office flare gaining only $18.1 million in its opening weekend – fourth place among movies overall. Scoring a 33% from Rotten Tomatoes, the measly reviews probably won’t help the film in the future weeks cause, you guys… Man of Steel, World War Z, and mother f*cking White House Down releasing through June.

    Admittedly, the idea for The Internship seemed a little cheesy, two old guys with no technological skills (who refer to the internet as “the online”) try to land a job at Google and end up teaching geeks half their age to not take themselves too seriously by going to strip clubs and getting wasted while one of the characters pursues a love interest resulting in the two old guys learning something about themselves! Yes, pretty formulaic. But it was supposed to be the long awaited reunion of Wedding Crashers, which released only 8 years ago, has achieved a quotable cult-comedy following. Key to note that The Internship was written by Vince Vaughn, not Wedding Crashers  writers Bob Fisher and Steve Faber (Married with Children).

    You’ll dig The Internship if you like the classic interplay between Vince and Owen. They genuinely seem to be having fun riffing off of each other throughout the film. You’ll find small laughs here but no Wedding Crashers quotes you’ll annoyingly repeat to all your frat bros on a daily basis.

    And yes, Google is the greatest place to work of all time.

    Laughing at Last Week: June 7th hits morgue coolers and run away test drives

    Laughing at Last WeekThis week’s episode of Laughing at Last Week host Phil Rothermich brings us the news on a New York morgue putting one of its coolers on eBay, a llama on the loose, a dad who asks ‘who cares about nazis’ and much more. In addition there’s lots of weird news out of Florida. Well, that sentence seems a bit weird because let’s face it, all of the weird news is outta that place.

    In addition, Phil breaks down some of the biggest headlines in comedy.

    So watch this week’s episode and leave some comments. Let us know what had you laughing about this last week. Read More

    Meeting of musical comedy juggernauts, The Lonely Island meets ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic

    The Lonely Island, Weird AlIn terms of comedy musicians two names quickly come to mind, The Lonely Island and ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic. They’re both crazy talented at creating hilarious music and GQ finally brought them together in their Comedy Issue (in stores now).

    Before the greatest meeting in musical comedy history, (ok, that might be a bit strong, but its not far from true) Lonely Island was busy preparing the release of their new album, planning a tour, and continuing to write more music. However, once they received the call to meet up with Weird Al the guys dropped everything they were doing. “We’ll cancel fu*king everything” Jorma Taccone of Lonely Island said. At the same time Weird Al was relaxing in Hawaii but jumped at the call to meet the Lonely Island guys and flew straight to Los Angeles. Weird Al says he wouldn’t have been able to pass it up. GQ posted some pictures of the musical comedian beasts meeting, as well as a short video. So check it out because if you don’t Weird Al and Lonely Island will quit making music. Ok, they’ll never know if you check it out but you should, it’ll certainly give you a laugh. Read More

    Some insight in to the comedic mind of mind of Mitch Hedberg by looking at his notebooks

    Mitch HedbergAn article published by GQ contains never-before-seen pages from the notebooks of late comedian Mitch Hedberg, who was known for his observational humor, witty and occasionally surreal one-liners, and his unique idiolect.

    The notebooks contain a glimpse into the mind of one of the greatest stand-up comics. There are completed jokes, quickly jotted ideas, drawings, and even a pitch he wrote to the makers of Gold Bond asking them to offer him an endorsement deal shortly after his discovery of the product. Hedberg was a frequent drug user (to quote one of his famous jokes: “I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too”), and died in 2005 of a drug overdose. He was 37 at the time. Since then, his journals and notebooks have been in the custody of his widow, Canadian comic Lynn Shawcroft, until they were given to GQ to include in the article. Read More

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