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    • This week in comedy: With Nick Thune Disarmed

    • Nick Thune has a mocumentary about his broken arm and attempt to recover from it. [Youtube]
    • Doug Stanhope is trying to raise money for the OK tornado victim who is an Atheist. [Indigogo]
    • Jen Kirkman now as a podcast, “I Seem Fun”. [I Seem Fun]
    • Universal Orlando is building a Simpsons themed park. [Splitsider]
    • Amy Schumer reveals that her show, Inside Amy Schumer got renewed for a second season. [Twitter]
    • Jimmy Fallon’s Game of Thrones parody, Game of Desks is the best. [Huffington Post]

      • Could Dan Harmon be returning for season 5 of Community? [Hollywookie]

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    This week in comedy: With hecklers and cop escorts

    • At a show this weekend, comedian Yannas Pappas had to deal with a heckler that was so bad, she was removed from the room by police. [Ditch Films]
    • The Onion’s article about Louis C.K. is just about right. [The Onion]
    • An oral history of the rise and fall of The Dana Carvey Show. [GQ]
    • There was a wrap oarty for The Office the other day in Scranton. Steve Carell showed up. [Warming Glow]
    • Gilbert Gottfried reading the angry sorority girl email is pretty great. [Film Drunk]
    • How Breaking Bad will end. [Geeking Out Show]
    • Robot Chicken is doing the couch gag on tonight’s episode of The Simpsons. [TV Guide]
    • Where is comedy podcasting going with Julie Klausner and Marc Maron. [Vulture]
    • Diplomacy, Jake Fogelnest style. [Jake Fogelnest]

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    This week in comedy: With Conan speeches

    • This weekend was the White House Correspondents Dinner. Here’s Conan’s speech. [The Daily conversation]
    • And here’s Barrack Obama telling some jokes. [The Daily Conversation]
    • Remember the 90′s MTV prank show Buzzkill? That show was great and just kinda disappeared, here’s the story. [The Awl]
    • Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, and Ben Affleck are hosting the last three episodes of Saturday Night Live. [Spltisider]
    • Possible Dodgeball sequel? [Hollywood Reporter]
    • The 10 best times SNL cast members cracked up. [Buzzfeed]
    • Have you read Larry David’s op-ed in the NY Times about terrorism? [The NY Times]
    • Amy Poehler, 1934 Cosmo girl. [Warming Glow]

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    This week in comedy: With reunited writers

    • If you can’t find your computer’s pointer, this site can help. [Pointer Pointer]
    • A look at the lady who takes the pictures of the guest on Saturday Night Live. [Uproxx]
    • It appears Joe Rogan has himself come Google glasses. [Instagram]
    • MTV has renewed Nikki & Sara Live. [Hollywood Reporter]
    • George Lopez has a new show that’s coming to FX. [Huffington Post]
    • A good write-up of Marc Maron before his new TV show premiere. [LA Times]
    • Matt Braunger/Johnny Pemberton’s Funny Or Die tour starts tomorrow. [Twitter]
    • Conan O’Brien held a writers reunion from The Simpsons. [Team Coco]

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    Comedy legend Jonathan Winters dies at 87

    Jonathan Winters“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it”
    - Johnathan Winters (November 11, 1925 – April 11, 2013)

    The comedy stars dimmed a bit today with the passing of comedy icon Jonathan Winters. Loved by many in the comedy community for his sharp wit, improv skills, surreal jokes, easy going nature, and wacky characters. The comedian passed away of natural causes at the age of 87 in Monticeto, California according to his business associate Joe Petro III.

    Though never starring in a breakout role in movies and TV. Rather it was Winter’s consistency and sharp humor that make him so beloved.

    His career began by accident by entering a contest to win a new watch. Winters sat in with a DJ as part of the contest which led to a job as a DJ where adlibs in between playing records eventually took over the entire show. He was the local radio personality in the Dayton/Springfield, OH region. Then after he quit those radio jobs he moved to NYC and got an agent he began performing stand-up around the city. His big great was working for Alistair Cooke on the CBS show Omnibus and appeared in the first color TV show. Read More

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