This Week In Comedy: Just For Laughs…
June 20, 2011 Matt Kleinschmidt News
All week long we’ve been covering Just For Laughs Chicago, it’s been a great week of stand-up and sketch in the Windy City. Be sure to read up on all of our coverage which includes shows with Hannibal Buress, Bill Burr, Jim Norton, Demetri Martin, Steve Martin, Seth Meyers and more.
The fallout of the Tracy Morgan homophobic rants during a stand-up show continues to happen. Yes, all the right moves have been put in place to rectify the situation, and people have given their opinions. Perhaps the most interesting of them seems to come from Louis C.K. who in a recent interview with Slate defended Morgan’s actions in the name of comedy, he also makes really good arguments that everything heard is hearsay and “nobody gets to say that they represent anybody and they’re offended on behalf of the whole world.” And then this argument against C.K.’s statement.
While on the subject of Louis C.K. the second season of his fantastic series Louie premieres this week. Color us psyched!
COMEDY IN THEATERS
Bad Teacher
Cars 2
NEW IN STORES
Cedar Rapids [DVD]
Happythankyoumoreplease [DVD]
Happythankyoumoreplease [Blu-ray]
Louie: Season One [DVD & Blu-Ray Combo]
Rocko’s Modern Life-Season 1 [DVD]
Tommy Johnagin: Stand Up Comedy 2 [CD]
Visioneers [DVD]
“Weird” Al Yankovic: Alpocalypse [CD]
COMEDY ON TELEVISION
Monday, June 20th
Larry the Cable Guy on The Tonight Show
Thomas Lennon and Weird Al Yankovic on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Greg Proops, Chris Franjola, Natasha Leggero on Chelsea Lately
Tuesday, June 21st
Jim Florentine on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Charlie Day on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Jo Koy, Josh Wolf, Sarah Colonna on Chelsea Lately
Larry The Cable Guy and Reggie Watts on Conan
Simon Pegg on Lopez Tonight
Wednesday, June 22nd
Kevin James on Late Show with David Letterman
Louis C.K. on The Tonight Show
Larry David and Molly Shannon on Jimmy Kimmel Live
Nick Frost and Simon Pegg on Last Call with Carson Daly
Arden Myrin and Matt Braunger on Chelsea Lately
Rob Corddry on Conan
Thursday, June 23rd
Season premiere of Louie on FX
Wilfred Series premiere on FX
Kevin Hart on The Tonight Show
Greg Fitzsimmons, Jen Kirkman, Whitney Cummings on Chelsea Lately
Nick Kroll on Conan
Friday, June 24th
Mo Mandel, Loni Love, Brad Wollack on Chelsea Lately
Tom Papa on The Tonight Show
Sunday, June 26th
Season 2 of The Marriage Ref premieres on NBC with Tom Papa, Jerry Seinfeld, and Ricky Gervais
