Cheri Oteri, Patton Oswalt, Baron Vaughn join truTV’s “Those Who Can’t”
truTV announced the lineup of guest stars set to appear on season two of the network’s inaugural scripted comedy series Those Who Can’t, which follows the outlandish exploits of the faculty at fictional Smoot High in Denver, Colorado. Cheri Oteri (Saturday Night Live) will lend her comedic talent to seven episodes as the school’s new […]
Kyle Kinane, Bobcat Goldthwait, The Grawlix all part of “High Plains Comedy Festival” full schedule
The High Plains Comedy Festival has released their full schedule, announcing 25 shows that will make the Festival, now in it’s fourth year, the biggest yet. The announcement includes some last-minute talent additions as special guests, including local favorite Josh Blue and actress Maria Thayer. The 25 shows that make up the High Plains final […]
This Week In Comedy: Tim Dillon Premieres His New Talk-Show Special, “This Is Your Country,” On Netflix
Courtesy of Netflix. This Week In Comedy: comedian & podcaster Tim Dillon is ready to make Netflix weird with his new “unscripted, political & talk-show style” comedy special This Is Your Country. The new Jerry Springer inspired special premieres ahead of this fall’s presidential election & finds the comic addressing his studio audience as “pigs” […]
Special Tapings Radar: The Funniest Comics Taping Comedy Specials This Month (March 2024)
Every month, 800 Pound Gorilla News scours the comedy cosmos, on the hunt for the comedy world’s rising stars & biggest acts who are about to tape their next hour and we put ’em all here in our Special Tapings Radar. This is where we showcase & highlight all the funniest comedians who are getting […]
Talking with Ian Karmel about stand-up, “Game On!,” “The Late Late Show,” and more
Ian Karmel is a man of many different worlds. Sometimes, he’s working behind the scenes as the co-head writer of The Late Late Show with James Corden. Sometimes, he’s onstage (but not presently for reasons that we assume should be pretty obvious) doing stand-up. Sometimes he’s an actor-such as on Portlandia and I’m Dying Up Here– or making videos […]
Netflix will drop “The Comedy Lineup” on July 3rd
Netflix announced its plans to air a series of 15 minute stand-up comedy sets from up-and-coming comedians called The Comedy Lineup. The 8 comedians that made up part 1 of the series gathered in New Orleans recently to tape and now we’ve learned that they’ll be released on July 3rd, just in time for you […]
Netflix to launch 15-minute comedy special series for emerging comics
Courtesy of Mindy Tucker When it comes to stand-up comedy Netflix it trying to do something different again. In addition to releasing the lion’s share of stand-up specials in 2017 (averaging 1 a week) they also took an experiment with launching The Standups by taking 6 great comedians and giving them half hour specials and […]