Forum: AST: Comedy

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My apologies if a thread of this nature already exists. Who are everyone's favorite twitterers? Mine are as follows: Eugene Mirman (@eugenemirman) Michael Ian Black (michaelianblack Tim Heidecker (@timheidecker) Neil Hamburger (@neilhamburger)

What the face? There's no Boondocks thread? The third season premiered on Sunday, with much appreciation and enjoyment from me. I mean it had Werner Herzog in the episode! Also and this: <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie"...

Maybe this already exists but w/e. Anyone picked up his new album yet?

Release Date: August 14, 2009 Studio: Paramount Vantage Director: Neal Brennan Screenwriter: Adam Stock, Rick Stempson Starring: Jeremy Piven, Ving Rhames, James Brolin, David Koechner, Kathryn Hahn, Jordana Spiro Genre: Comedy Plot Summary: Who is Don Ready? Salesman? Lover? Song Stylist?...

COMEDY BY THE NUMBERS© http://www.youtube.com/Comedybythenumbers Episodes: "Funny Names" "Stop Snitching!" "Farts/Fart Sounds" "Novelty Items" "Shouting"

This is what makes me laugh, haha! I love everything Comedy Time puts out, but this is great! A Jersey Shore Avatar, hahaha!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD9G7z1pk_A

Ophira Eisenberg's new album "As Is" now available on iTunes and Amazon.com <table style="font: 11px arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" width="360" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="353"><tbody><tr style="background-color: rgb(229, 229, 229);"...

Hello All You Patient, Sexual PodKatzers Out There in PodKatzland, We proudly present The Roommate Episode of The PodKatz with Special Guests Josh Kemp and British Dan! Come check it out by subscribing for free on iTunes or at http://podkatz.podomatic.com/ Episode Description: Returning...

LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN: Fr 7/11: Ed Helms, Tom Papa We 7/16: Eugene Mirman We 7/23: BJ Novak (R 5/7/08) Fr 7/25: Seth Meyers (R 5/9/08) LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN: Fr 7/11: Steve Carell (R 6/17/08) Th 7/17: Ricky Gervais

We have the "Things I find funnier..." thread (which I love,) and we have the "Things I did not post/I love reality television" thread (which I'm casually dating,) but I'd like to start a "Things I finally get" thread: Jokes, bits, routines, references, algebra, this thread is for those of us...

<center><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3603/3549802938_7af67e8438.jpg"> &nbsp; <img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3391/3549020549_acf9b7540d_o.png"></center> San Francisco-based sketch comedy troupe Kasper Hauser has two books coming out next month. Obama's Blackberry, which...

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Anybody got any good ones?? post em here. Heres a few that I found.. fLHre9zuLhE r0EVSP_6XZA

Just read this article on the Guardian UK site. It is really good. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/09/sarah-silverman-comedy-autobiography

Got a comedy short lying around, collecting dust and non-paying views by the handful? Submit it to the Internet Killed the Video Star competition. Find details at the IKTVS.net website. Deadline to enter is THIS SATURDAY 5/8, so jump on it. The screening for finalists is Sunday 5/16 at 7pm...

Looking for a hard-working comedy fan interested in working behind the scenes on Bobby Tisdale's show "The Wards of Merkin". Intern's responsibilities would include setting up before the show and cleaning up afterwards, as well as running some errands on performance nights. Paid position -...

Hi AST folks! I wanted to drop you a line about a new endeavor out of Chicago. Here's the spiel. Fill free to email me or whackpublications@gmail.com with further questions or if you're interested! Best, Kristy RE: Comedy, a Chicago-based print magazine focused on standup comedians (and...

An evening of Reck and Roll Music & Comedy With every ones favorite fake church band -TRACY,DEAN,&JESUS (Andre Hyland, Paul Oyen, Mike Mayfield, Steve Verzello, Kevin Finn) http://www.myspace.com/tracydeanandjesus -WAR TAPES http://www.myspace.com/wartapes -Other Bands TBA NO COVER-FREE...

Myq Kaplan's new "Vegan Mind Meld" album is now available on iTunes. Be sure to watch Myq's "Comedy Central Presents" special this Friday night, April 30th. <script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js"></script><script...

This was made a while ago, but I just discovered it so it gets it's own thread. Tim made eight different videos of him performing stand up. He never did this on the show but it's hilarious. Maybe James Quall inspired him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9F0svqEtw4&feature=related

Does anyone know when tickets for Patton's Toronto show - on July 8th will be going on sale? thanks.

Even after the disappointing box office of Sacha Baron Cohen's "Bruno" last summer -- $138 million worldwide with a good chunk going to Cohen - Hollywood was still whipped into a frenzy this week when the mercurial comedy star pitched his latest project to every studio in town. The untitled...

Are you a man? Are you a fan of Dan Mintz? I am. I like a lot of his jokes but my favorite is the polar bear one. I won't tell it cause I don't want to ruin it for those that haven't heard it, but I claim it to be the best joke of the decade. I also like the sears joke, as does everyone else, of...

Tig's show "Tig Has Friends" at Largo is tomorrow (Silverman sisters, Steve Agee, Jay Johnston to appear)... Check out an interview w/ Tig below, if you're into that kind of thing. -dylan <object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param...

I just stumbled across the Beta version of Laughstub.com, a ticket-selling site specifically geared toward live comedy. It seems to have built a pretty comprehensive roster of comics and you can search by comedian, venue, comedy type or date. I imagine this is designed as a way to aggregate info...

I was recently listening to the Nerdist Podcast with Chris Hardwick. He was interviewing Gaffigan and they started talking about the 'Carlin Approach' to writing- each year builds up to an new hour of material, shoot a special, then repeat. They discuss how Louie adheres to this approach (I know...

MAY CLASSES!! -Comedy Scene Study- THE COMEDY ACADEMY <a href="http://tinypic.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i42.tinypic.com/iqbsk2.jpg" border="0" alt="Image and video hosting by TinyPic"></a> Tick Tock.... SIGN UP FOR MAY NOW, CLASSES BEGIN NEXT WEEK! Mondays 7-10pm Thursdays 7-10pm...

First thread, be gentle. So, my wife and I went to a recording of Radio Happy Hour tonight. Normally they record in NYC, but they came out to Lincoln with Matt Pond PA and Eugene Mirman, and we had a great time. The archive of the show is only about ten shows deep, so you're still on the...

NEW YORK, December 11, 2009 -- COMEDY CENTRAL is about to get up close and personal with Aziz Ansari. Filmed in front of a packed house at the Brentwood Theater in Los Angeles, the World Television Premiere of "Aziz Ansari: Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening" debuts Sunday, January 17 at 10:00...

From Chortle : American comic David Cross has written a sitcom pilot for Channel 4. The Arrested Development actor will also star in The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, about a US businessman who finds himself out of his depth when he is mistakenly sent to run his company’s UK...

Lionsgate has teamed up with the online creative community Massify, to create a comedy film completely helmed by users on the site. Lionsgate will produce a short version of the winning idea, with online distribution and the chance for it to be turned into a feature. Well, I pitched my idea and...

NATHAN BARNATT & I... We made a video. <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gwwkrWhJQ4E&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en_US&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param...

Stars Mike O'Connell and Jesse Eisenberg, Jim Gaffigan and features AST'ers Eddie Pepitone and Matt Dwyer. Apparently it's been banging around the festival circuit but it's getting a limited release in May. <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie"...

Long time reader, infrequent poster. Although I'm a nobody on here, I'm going to plug this anyways. Here is the trailer for our feature film "Sketch", improvised over 10 days in Calgary, AB, Canada. <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" id="ordie_player_2522dc6b0d"...

Not an article this time, just a video, but of interest. A curiosity: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/04/the-early-chris-rock.html

From Variety: Mark Wahlberg and James Franco are set to crash Steve Carell and Tina Fey's "Date Night." Wahlberg and Franco have signed on for supporting roles in the Shawn Levy-helmed comedy for 20th Century Fox. Leighton Meester, Common, Taraji P. Henson and Kristen Wiig have also boarded the...

I resisted making a thread for this, because the green band trailer didn't look all that good, but there's a new red band trailer which makes it look a little bit better: <object width="450" height="239"><param name="movie" value="http://www.traileraddict.com/emd/18295"></param><param...