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Hugh Jackman To Star In New Comedy “Avon Man”
Wolverine star Hugh Jackman will produce and star in Avon Man, a new comedy from 20th Century Fox, Variety reports.
The story will center on an out of work car salesman who becomes an Avon rep and uses his good looks to become one of the cosmetics brand’s most successful workers.
Excited at new comedy season
THERE is nothing like live theatre so it is great news that Derby Playhouse is likely to be reopening in the near future. The new season's plays announced are comedies which should encourage “bums on seats”. And Peter Pan, I am sure, will be as popular as previous Christmas shows. For those of you who haven't been before, try it, you don't know what you've been missing.
HBO Shooting Pilot For New Comedy
We’ve got another HBO comedy coming our way and Jason Schwartzman is the main man. Jason has been cast to be the lead in new HBO comedy pilot "Bored to Death."
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Jonathan (Jason) will play a struggling writer with a drinking problem in Brooklyn who, following a painful breakup with his girlfriend, decides to emulate his heroes from the novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. He takes out an ad pretending to be a private detective and starts taking cases -- solving some and making others worse.
Production is set to start filming sometime in September in NYC.
We've been seriously lacking in the comedy department so lets hope this show is something worth watching.
India's next outsourcing boom: comedy
MUMBAI (AFP) - In 1979, Don Ward opened a small club in London to provide a stage for the best of Britain's undiscovered comic talent. After 30 successful years, he now wants to do the same in India.
Ward is taking The Comedy Store out of Britain for the first time, opening a branch in India's cosmopolitan entertainment capital Mumbai to give audiences a taste of the best of international stand-up and to foster home-grown talent.
"There's a tremendous comedy scene in the United Kingdom, which has just 60 million people," Ward told AFP by telephone from his London home. "India has 1.2 billion people. It's easy to do the maths.
"I think there's going to be a comedy explosion (in India)."
In India, comedy in Hindi and other indigenous languages still tends to see comedians delivering pithy one-liners on television shows or theatre satires lampooning politicians and society's quirks.
Its English-language comedy scene is small in comparison, although Indian comics such as Vir Das and Papa CJ or Canadian Russell Peters, whose family is of Anglo-Indian origin, have attracted a loyal following.
Like Ward, Papa CJ and Peters believe India's stand-up scene can be developed and, as in business and technology or outsourcing, unleashed on the world.
"I strongly believe there is phenomenal potential for high quality stand-up comedy in India," Papa CJ, who has performed at The Comedy Store in London, told AFP by email.
"There is a dearth of entertainment in India and The Comedy Store fills that gap very well."
Peters added: "In the (United) States and Canada there's a lot of Indian comics and quite a few of them are pretty good. I also know that there are a few local Indian comics in India, which is a good thing.
"There's no reason why they shouldn't be successful... I know there's a market for it," he told AFP by email from Canada.
The new Comedy Store, a 1,400-square-metre (15,000-square-foot), 300-seat venue at central Mumbai's High Street Phoenix shopping and leisure complex, is due to open in early December.
Ward and his Indian business partner Amar Agrawal have both invested one million pounds (1.6 million dollars) to get the project off the ground.
Preview gigs in the city in June, featuring comedians Sean Meo, Ian Stone and Paul Tonkinson, were well-received. More are planned before the opening.
Ward, 67, said he is well aware of India's "sacred cows" -- subjects that are still off limits in what is still a deeply conservative society.
But he promises that the material -- and even performers such as Paul Sinha, an openly gay British Bengali doctor or British-Iranian comedian Shappi Khorsandi -- will push boundaries.
"Safe comedy is boring comedy," he said. "There has to be an element of risk. My mission is to make you guys feel uncomfortable and to make you think -- and of course entertain you."
Just like 30 years ago, Ward is planning to reprise his role that found the stars of Britain's "alternative comedy" scene in the 1980s including Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Alexei Sayle and dozens of other British household names.
He says he'll be happy if he can find half a dozen new Indian comedians who can eventually work alongside the international talent flown in for weekend gigs.
"I'm sure that around the 'Slumdog' areas you have got guys and girls who have got something to say about life in India," he said, referring to the city's Dharavi shantytown seen in the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire". "This is where the humour comes out of everyday life," he added.
After Mumbai, there are plans for branches in the capital New Delhi and the southern city of Bangalore as well as stand-up nights in Hindi and other languages.
India and Indians are ripe with comic potential and could soon take the world by storm, he says.
"The British were here for 200 years. We gave you fantastic buildings and we left you with a great sense of humour," he joked.
"Indians have got funny bones. They like to talk and are full of self-importance. Just like comedians, in fact. It's a win-win situation."
Hugh Jackman To Star In New Comedy “Avon Man”
Wolverine star Hugh Jackman will produce and star in Avon Man, a new comedy from 20th Century Fox, Variety reports.
The story will center on an out of work car salesman who becomes an Avon rep and uses his good looks to become one of the cosmetics brand’s most successful workers.
Excited at new comedy season
THERE is nothing like live theatre so it is great news that Derby Playhouse is likely to be reopening in the near future. The new season's plays announced are comedies which should encourage “bums on seats”. And Peter Pan, I am sure, will be as popular as previous Christmas shows. For those of you who haven't been before, try it, you don't know what you've been missing.
HBO Shooting Pilot For New ComedyWe’ve got another HBO comedy coming our way and Jason Schwartzman is the main man. Jason has been cast to be the lead in new HBO comedy pilot "Bored to Death."
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Jonathan (Jason) will play a struggling writer with a drinking problem in Brooklyn who, following a painful breakup with his girlfriend, decides to emulate his heroes from the novels of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett. He takes out an ad pretending to be a private detective and starts taking cases -- solving some and making others worse.
Production is set to start filming sometime in September in NYC.
We've been seriously lacking in the comedy department so lets hope this show is something worth watching.
India's next outsourcing boom: comedyMUMBAI (AFP) - In 1979, Don Ward opened a small club in London to provide a stage for the best of Britain's undiscovered comic talent. After 30 successful years, he now wants to do the same in India.
Ward is taking The Comedy Store out of Britain for the first time, opening a branch in India's cosmopolitan entertainment capital Mumbai to give audiences a taste of the best of international stand-up and to foster home-grown talent.
"There's a tremendous comedy scene in the United Kingdom, which has just 60 million people," Ward told AFP by telephone from his London home. "India has 1.2 billion people. It's easy to do the maths.
"I think there's going to be a comedy explosion (in India)."
In India, comedy in Hindi and other indigenous languages still tends to see comedians delivering pithy one-liners on television shows or theatre satires lampooning politicians and society's quirks.
Its English-language comedy scene is small in comparison, although Indian comics such as Vir Das and Papa CJ or Canadian Russell Peters, whose family is of Anglo-Indian origin, have attracted a loyal following.
Like Ward, Papa CJ and Peters believe India's stand-up scene can be developed and, as in business and technology or outsourcing, unleashed on the world.
"I strongly believe there is phenomenal potential for high quality stand-up comedy in India," Papa CJ, who has performed at The Comedy Store in London, told AFP by email.
"There is a dearth of entertainment in India and The Comedy Store fills that gap very well."
Peters added: "In the (United) States and Canada there's a lot of Indian comics and quite a few of them are pretty good. I also know that there are a few local Indian comics in India, which is a good thing.
"There's no reason why they shouldn't be successful... I know there's a market for it," he told AFP by email from Canada.
The new Comedy Store, a 1,400-square-metre (15,000-square-foot), 300-seat venue at central Mumbai's High Street Phoenix shopping and leisure complex, is due to open in early December.
Ward and his Indian business partner Amar Agrawal have both invested one million pounds (1.6 million dollars) to get the project off the ground.
Preview gigs in the city in June, featuring comedians Sean Meo, Ian Stone and Paul Tonkinson, were well-received. More are planned before the opening.
Ward, 67, said he is well aware of India's "sacred cows" -- subjects that are still off limits in what is still a deeply conservative society.
But he promises that the material -- and even performers such as Paul Sinha, an openly gay British Bengali doctor or British-Iranian comedian Shappi Khorsandi -- will push boundaries.
"Safe comedy is boring comedy," he said. "There has to be an element of risk. My mission is to make you guys feel uncomfortable and to make you think -- and of course entertain you."
Just like 30 years ago, Ward is planning to reprise his role that found the stars of Britain's "alternative comedy" scene in the 1980s including Ben Elton, Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Alexei Sayle and dozens of other British household names.
He says he'll be happy if he can find half a dozen new Indian comedians who can eventually work alongside the international talent flown in for weekend gigs.
"I'm sure that around the 'Slumdog' areas you have got guys and girls who have got something to say about life in India," he said, referring to the city's Dharavi shantytown seen in the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire". "This is where the humour comes out of everyday life," he added.
After Mumbai, there are plans for branches in the capital New Delhi and the southern city of Bangalore as well as stand-up nights in Hindi and other languages.
India and Indians are ripe with comic potential and could soon take the world by storm, he says.
"The British were here for 200 years. We gave you fantastic buildings and we left you with a great sense of humour," he joked.
"Indians have got funny bones. They like to talk and are full of self-importance. Just like comedians, in fact. It's a win-win situation."
Monday, August 3, 2009
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Michael Showalter Discusses His New Comedy Central Show
One half of the issue burdened Michaels from "Michael and Michael Have Issues," Michael Showalter, joined us to discuss his and Michael Ian Black's new show on Comedy Central (Wednesdays at 10:30 pm ET). Michael also talks about his time at "The State," what the status is with that "Wet Hot American Summer" sequel and breaks down his recent appearance on "Late Show with David Letterman."
Mike: I'm kind of happy this interview was delayed a few days because now I've seen the second episode...
Michael Showalter: Oh, good.
Mike: I really liked the first one but I think I liked the second one better; the show just kinds of grows on you the more you watch it.
Michael Showalter: I hope that's true. I really hope that's true. I think they keep getting better, actually, too. I think episode three is better than two and so on and so forth.
Mike: Obviously you and Michael Ian Black have known each other for quite some time so the chemistry was there from the first episode.
Michael Showalter: Yeah.
Mike: People that may not be familiar with "The State" or familiar with the previous work, the longer the show continues the more they will get what's going on.
Michael Showalter: As long as they keep watching; that's the key. People have a habit of making snap decisions. It's that and it's also a different kind of show for Comedy Central. It's a single camera, narrative show. Sarah Silverman is kind of like that but Sarah's is a much more absurd reality than our show. I think we agree, it's going to take a little while for people to kind of get used to it and learn the characters and the sensibility and all that stuff.
Mike: I've always been intrigued by just the process of comedy sketch writing ... It was fascinating for me to watch "Saturday Night Live" from the writers' room and watching what the writers would laugh at as opposed to the audience -- almost like on certain jokes there's a funny story about how that was written. Do you think that sometimes the funniest moments are at the writers' table?
Michael Showalter: Gee. Mike and I haven't done sketches in so long that we're almost relearning it. So, the sketch part of the show is still very much a work in progress because it's been over ten years since we were writing sketches with any regularity. I think, for us, it may have actually been the opposite. That the sketches may have gone a little bit better in the shooting of them (laughs). When we were doing "The State," all we did all day long was write sketches. With this, it's not as much like that because there's all the narrative stuff and that's really where most of our energy is going in to. So, figuring out that balance is something we'll have to work on.
Mike: I almost kind of meant it more as drawing off your memories from "The State." When you guys were in a groove, did funny things happen and you say, "we're putting this in because we think it's hilarious but we don't know how it will play."
Michael Showalter: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely, yes. Definitely. And that's, I think, where you want to get to. Where you're at a comfort level of trusting that what you find funny is what the audience will find funny. And you do start getting to a place where the jokes that you're doing in the sketches are just whatever crazy idea you have that you guys thought was really funny in the room. But at "The State," that's where things really started to go in the third and fourth season. It was just us being silly with each other and making sketches out of it.
Mike: On "Michael and Michael Have Issues," you see them so rarely, is that a real studio audience? Are they just brought in for the sketches part of the show?
Michael Showalter: Yes. That's a real studio audience.
Mike: Do you show them the footage from [the narrative]...
Michael Showalter: No. They don't know that there's a storyline. If we make another season, they will.
Mike: Oh, that's interesting.
Michael Showalter: Those audiences didn't really know what they were looking at and they saw only sketches. They saw the sketches we were shooting live; a lot of which were those "Michael and Michael" segments sitting in the chairs. And then we would shoot maybe one or two live sketches with the costumes and then role in on camera some of the other sketches we'd been shooting on location. But, they didn't know anything about the behind the scenes stuff. A lot of the sketches we shot live, got cut. The majority of the things we did that got cut were the live sketches. They didn't come out right, somehow. Like I say, it's a work in progress. They were funny but they clashed a little bit with the rest of the show.
Mike: So if you're in the studio audience, all you know is that you're coming in for this new sketch comedy show?
Michael Showalter: Kind of. They kind of know it's more than that but they're not really sure what.
Mike: I do love the fact it incorporates sketch comedy. If you look back, "The State" had a nice run, but why do you feel, other than "SNL," it's hard to get sketch comedy on the air? I like that "Michael and Michael Have Issues" is doing it in a unique way with the story, then a sketch, then more story.
Michael Showalter: Gosh, I don't know. I really don't know. I'm not sure, I wish I had an answer. It's a good question. I have no idea. What do you think?
Mike: I don't know either. I've been trying to figure it out because everyone I know loves sketch comedy.
Michael Showalter: I really don't know. I really don't. That's a really good question.
Mike: So [July 14] I saw you on David Letterman. What's it like going on Letterman? I've heard stories it can be pretty nerve-wracking.
Michael Showalter: It's as terrified as I've ever been to do anything in my life. I idolize David Letterman and he's an icon to me. I've watched the show thousands of times. I was terrified
Mike: You didn't come across terrified at all. Very impressive.
Michael Showalter: I ended up taking the attitude that what I think I could have done that would have made it bad is if you get caught up in -- and I've watched the show enough to see it when you watch people on the show -- feeling impressed with that I was on Letterman. Meaning: I must be a really big deal or something if I'm on David Letterman. Because then you start putting pressure on yourself like, "This is my big chance. I have to be amazing on Letterman or my career is over," or something like that. And I just tried to think of it more along the lines of I was there to promote my television show and just try to be a good guest. And to also realize he's a human being -- he's also an icon but he's a human being -- and to just try and go there and be myself and it ended up going great. He was really nice to me and I had heard he was intimidating, as well, but I found him to be very nice
Mike: And you don't get to meet him before the show, right?
Michael Showalter: No, no, no. When you go out there, that's when you meet him. It was totally surreal. It's like walking into your TV set and all of a sudden you're there.
Mike: Right. I've been to Letterman before in the audience and even from that perspective it felt like you're inside your TV.
Michael Showalter: It's very surreal but I'm really happy with the way it went and he was nice.
Mike: The cat story was hilarious. Do you spend time practicing that?
Michael Showalter: I definitely told the story a few times at a few small comedy shows just to see if it was funny or not. But I was not in there scripted or rehearsed. It's a true story so I just told the story as it really occurred. I really just tried to be myself; I really tried to go in there and not be too prepared.
Mike: I have a few questions from readers on Twitter, is that OK?
Michael Showalter: Of course.
Mike: (From Ryan in Arlington, VA) How did you come up with "Wet Hot American Summer" and how much was improvised?
Michael Showalter: None of it was improvised, really. We came up with it because David [Wain] and I both had formative summer camp experiences and sort of just -- we wanted to write a movie together -- started writing down what we thought would be funny characters in scenes based on that and it just kind of grew out of that.
Mike: (From Katie in New York City) Wasn't there a mention of a sequel to "Wet Hot American Summer"? What happened to that?
Michael Showalter: David and I just haven't had a chance to connect and talk about it. But I definitely think it's something we would be interested in doing one day.
Mike: (Dave from Hoboken) says he has seen you out playing poker before. How much do you enjoy poker and how good are you at it?
Michael Showalter: I love playing poker. And I play very aggressively and I'm a very loose player, they call it. And I'm pretty good. I think I'm a pretty good poker player. I'm a big risk, high return guy.
Futurama WILL Be Back With All Voice Talent Present and Accounted For
t looks like “Futurama” will be coming back to television with its voice talent intact. Fox has reached a deal with “Futurama” regulars Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille , John DiMaggio and Maurice LaMarche that will keep the gang at Planet Express cracking wise for at least 26 episodes
Michael Moore plans Traverse City, MI comedy festival | KIDK-TV
Oscar winner Michael Moore has more big plans for his adopted northern Michigan hometown of Traverse City, where he's already established a film festival. Moore said Saturday that he and comedian Jeff Garlin, a star and executive producer of the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm," will organize the Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival. It will run over a weekend and feature movies, stand-up and sketch comedy and other entertainment. A date has not been chosen yet
Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival has a partial 2009 lineup, seeks sponsors | the comic's comic
ugene Mirman is ready to host his second annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival this coming Sept. 17-20, 2009, in Brooklyn. As you can see, he's already got some great talent lined up to perform, and if its anything like last year -- which included canvas bags and laminates to make you feel like it was a real comedy fest, which it was -- then you should mark your calendars, and then when your calendar hits these days, then you
Joe Rogan's New Comedy Special To Premier Uncensored On Spike
On Saturday June 20th, stand up comic and UFC commentator Joe Rogan's comedy special "Talking Monkeys in Space'" will debut at midnight in an uncensored format. ‘Talking Monkeys in Space' captures Rogan breaking down cultural taboos; exploring his subjects with a raw honesty that is as engrossing as it is hilarious. Exuding a mad joy for life in all its insanity Rogan dispels the negative effects of marijuana use and marvels at his baby daughter; challenges the politically correct teachings of Dr. Phil and ends the anti-Evolution debate – all with the incisive edge that has defined Rogan's comedy
Michael Showalter Discusses His New Comedy Central Show
One half of the issue burdened Michaels from "Michael and Michael Have Issues," Michael Showalter, joined us to discuss his and Michael Ian Black's new show on Comedy Central (Wednesdays at 10:30 pm ET). Michael also talks about his time at "The State," what the status is with that "Wet Hot American Summer" sequel and breaks down his recent appearance on "Late Show with David Letterman."
Mike: I'm kind of happy this interview was delayed a few days because now I've seen the second episode...
Michael Showalter: Oh, good.
Mike: I really liked the first one but I think I liked the second one better; the show just kinds of grows on you the more you watch it.
Michael Showalter: I hope that's true. I really hope that's true. I think they keep getting better, actually, too. I think episode three is better than two and so on and so forth.
Mike: Obviously you and Michael Ian Black have known each other for quite some time so the chemistry was there from the first episode.
Michael Showalter: Yeah.
Mike: People that may not be familiar with "The State" or familiar with the previous work, the longer the show continues the more they will get what's going on.
Michael Showalter: As long as they keep watching; that's the key. People have a habit of making snap decisions. It's that and it's also a different kind of show for Comedy Central. It's a single camera, narrative show. Sarah Silverman is kind of like that but Sarah's is a much more absurd reality than our show. I think we agree, it's going to take a little while for people to kind of get used to it and learn the characters and the sensibility and all that stuff.
Mike: I've always been intrigued by just the process of comedy sketch writing ... It was fascinating for me to watch "Saturday Night Live" from the writers' room and watching what the writers would laugh at as opposed to the audience -- almost like on certain jokes there's a funny story about how that was written. Do you think that sometimes the funniest moments are at the writers' table?
Michael Showalter: Gee. Mike and I haven't done sketches in so long that we're almost relearning it. So, the sketch part of the show is still very much a work in progress because it's been over ten years since we were writing sketches with any regularity. I think, for us, it may have actually been the opposite. That the sketches may have gone a little bit better in the shooting of them (laughs). When we were doing "The State," all we did all day long was write sketches. With this, it's not as much like that because there's all the narrative stuff and that's really where most of our energy is going in to. So, figuring out that balance is something we'll have to work on.
Mike: I almost kind of meant it more as drawing off your memories from "The State." When you guys were in a groove, did funny things happen and you say, "we're putting this in because we think it's hilarious but we don't know how it will play."
Michael Showalter: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely, yes. Definitely. And that's, I think, where you want to get to. Where you're at a comfort level of trusting that what you find funny is what the audience will find funny. And you do start getting to a place where the jokes that you're doing in the sketches are just whatever crazy idea you have that you guys thought was really funny in the room. But at "The State," that's where things really started to go in the third and fourth season. It was just us being silly with each other and making sketches out of it.
Mike: On "Michael and Michael Have Issues," you see them so rarely, is that a real studio audience? Are they just brought in for the sketches part of the show?
Michael Showalter: Yes. That's a real studio audience.
Mike: Do you show them the footage from [the narrative]...
Michael Showalter: No. They don't know that there's a storyline. If we make another season, they will.
Mike: Oh, that's interesting.
Michael Showalter: Those audiences didn't really know what they were looking at and they saw only sketches. They saw the sketches we were shooting live; a lot of which were those "Michael and Michael" segments sitting in the chairs. And then we would shoot maybe one or two live sketches with the costumes and then role in on camera some of the other sketches we'd been shooting on location. But, they didn't know anything about the behind the scenes stuff. A lot of the sketches we shot live, got cut. The majority of the things we did that got cut were the live sketches. They didn't come out right, somehow. Like I say, it's a work in progress. They were funny but they clashed a little bit with the rest of the show.
Mike: So if you're in the studio audience, all you know is that you're coming in for this new sketch comedy show?
Michael Showalter: Kind of. They kind of know it's more than that but they're not really sure what.
Mike: I do love the fact it incorporates sketch comedy. If you look back, "The State" had a nice run, but why do you feel, other than "SNL," it's hard to get sketch comedy on the air? I like that "Michael and Michael Have Issues" is doing it in a unique way with the story, then a sketch, then more story.
Michael Showalter: Gosh, I don't know. I really don't know. I'm not sure, I wish I had an answer. It's a good question. I have no idea. What do you think?
Mike: I don't know either. I've been trying to figure it out because everyone I know loves sketch comedy.
Michael Showalter: I really don't know. I really don't. That's a really good question.
Mike: So [July 14] I saw you on David Letterman. What's it like going on Letterman? I've heard stories it can be pretty nerve-wracking.
Michael Showalter: It's as terrified as I've ever been to do anything in my life. I idolize David Letterman and he's an icon to me. I've watched the show thousands of times. I was terrified
Mike: You didn't come across terrified at all. Very impressive.
Michael Showalter: I ended up taking the attitude that what I think I could have done that would have made it bad is if you get caught up in -- and I've watched the show enough to see it when you watch people on the show -- feeling impressed with that I was on Letterman. Meaning: I must be a really big deal or something if I'm on David Letterman. Because then you start putting pressure on yourself like, "This is my big chance. I have to be amazing on Letterman or my career is over," or something like that. And I just tried to think of it more along the lines of I was there to promote my television show and just try to be a good guest. And to also realize he's a human being -- he's also an icon but he's a human being -- and to just try and go there and be myself and it ended up going great. He was really nice to me and I had heard he was intimidating, as well, but I found him to be very nice
Mike: And you don't get to meet him before the show, right?
Michael Showalter: No, no, no. When you go out there, that's when you meet him. It was totally surreal. It's like walking into your TV set and all of a sudden you're there.
Mike: Right. I've been to Letterman before in the audience and even from that perspective it felt like you're inside your TV.
Michael Showalter: It's very surreal but I'm really happy with the way it went and he was nice.
Mike: The cat story was hilarious. Do you spend time practicing that?
Michael Showalter: I definitely told the story a few times at a few small comedy shows just to see if it was funny or not. But I was not in there scripted or rehearsed. It's a true story so I just told the story as it really occurred. I really just tried to be myself; I really tried to go in there and not be too prepared.
Mike: I have a few questions from readers on Twitter, is that OK?
Michael Showalter: Of course.
Mike: (From Ryan in Arlington, VA) How did you come up with "Wet Hot American Summer" and how much was improvised?
Michael Showalter: None of it was improvised, really. We came up with it because David [Wain] and I both had formative summer camp experiences and sort of just -- we wanted to write a movie together -- started writing down what we thought would be funny characters in scenes based on that and it just kind of grew out of that.
Mike: (From Katie in New York City) Wasn't there a mention of a sequel to "Wet Hot American Summer"? What happened to that?
Michael Showalter: David and I just haven't had a chance to connect and talk about it. But I definitely think it's something we would be interested in doing one day.
Mike: (Dave from Hoboken) says he has seen you out playing poker before. How much do you enjoy poker and how good are you at it?
Michael Showalter: I love playing poker. And I play very aggressively and I'm a very loose player, they call it. And I'm pretty good. I think I'm a pretty good poker player. I'm a big risk, high return guy.
Futurama WILL Be Back With All Voice Talent Present and Accounted For
t looks like “Futurama” will be coming back to television with its voice talent intact. Fox has reached a deal with “Futurama” regulars Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille , John DiMaggio and Maurice LaMarche that will keep the gang at Planet Express cracking wise for at least 26 episodes
Michael Moore plans Traverse City, MI comedy festival | KIDK-TV
Oscar winner Michael Moore has more big plans for his adopted northern Michigan hometown of Traverse City, where he's already established a film festival. Moore said Saturday that he and comedian Jeff Garlin, a star and executive producer of the HBO series "Curb Your Enthusiasm," will organize the Traverse City Comedy Arts Festival. It will run over a weekend and feature movies, stand-up and sketch comedy and other entertainment. A date has not been chosen yet
Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival has a partial 2009 lineup, seeks sponsors | the comic's comic
ugene Mirman is ready to host his second annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival this coming Sept. 17-20, 2009, in Brooklyn. As you can see, he's already got some great talent lined up to perform, and if its anything like last year -- which included canvas bags and laminates to make you feel like it was a real comedy fest, which it was -- then you should mark your calendars, and then when your calendar hits these days, then you
Joe Rogan's New Comedy Special To Premier Uncensored On Spike
On Saturday June 20th, stand up comic and UFC commentator Joe Rogan's comedy special "Talking Monkeys in Space'" will debut at midnight in an uncensored format. ‘Talking Monkeys in Space' captures Rogan breaking down cultural taboos; exploring his subjects with a raw honesty that is as engrossing as it is hilarious. Exuding a mad joy for life in all its insanity Rogan dispels the negative effects of marijuana use and marvels at his baby daughter; challenges the politically correct teachings of Dr. Phil and ends the anti-Evolution debate – all with the incisive edge that has defined Rogan's comedy
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