Shane Gillis, Sam Morril & Bert Kreischer Recruited By Dallas Cowboys For 2024 Schedule Release
It’s around this time every year where every professional football team in the NFL announces their schedule for the upcoming season. There’ve been a lot of creative announces unveiled this week including the San Diego Chargers releasing their schedule as a Sims video & the Tennessee Titans heading back to Broadway in Nashville with some […]
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 […]
Just For Laughs Toronto Announces First Part of 2023 Lineup
Just For Laughs is coming back to Toronto for 2023. The comedy festival will be hosting some of the biggest names in comedy from September 21st through the 30th. And today, we learned the first slate of names for the festival. The festival will feature Andrew Schulz, Leslie Jones, Jonathan Van Ness, Nicole Byer, Marlon […]
Talking rooftops and self releasing stand-up specials with Sam Morril
When Sam Morril released his special I Got This on YouTube earlier this year, it didn’t take very long for it to catch on. To date, the special has almost 5 million views, and it probably didn’t hurt that it served as a good distraction for comedy fans in the earliest days of quarantine and the pandemic. […]
The 35 Best Comedy Specials and Albums of 2020
The relationship between comedy and 2020 can best be described as contentious. The year started off strong then very quickly forced many to adapt to a pandemic which saw the comedy world (like many) flipped upside down. While there’s an end in site, it still might not be fast enough for many as we saw […]
The Laugh Button’s best comedy albums and specials of 2018
Upon starting this list and without much effort we were able to quickly ramble about 100 comedians that put out an hour since December 2017 ticked past us. This is not including all of the half-hour specials and 15 minute ones that were also released. It’s a lot of stand-up comedy to consume via TV, […]
Sam Morril dropped by “The Tonight Show” to discuss how he makes dating decisions
Sam Morril was the guest comedian on The Tonight Show last night. He was there to promote his new Comedy Central special, Positive Influence which premieres this weekend (tune in). While doing the guest stand-up Morril gave some sagely relationship advice… specifically that he chooses women to date based on some specific things, and it’s […]
This week in comedy: Sam Morril’s positive influence and American Vandal returns
Now that September is fully in swing, though we’re about a solid week or two before everything premieres/comes back on TV for the fall 2018 season, it doesn’t mean that nothing is rolling out this week. Case in point, Netflix is rolling out 3, count ’em, 3 season of comedy shows. Returning for new seasons […]
Here’s a trailer for Sam Morril’s new comedy special, “Positive Influence”
Next week Sam Morril will drop his first hour on the Comedy Central airwaves, Positive Influence. Well, if you want to be technical about it, it’s Amy Schumer presents Sam Morril. That’s because a while back, Schumer worked out a deal with Comedy Central to put some of her comedian friends on the air. First […]
Watch best friends Joe Machi and Sam Morril take jabs at each other on “Roast Battle”
This season’s format on Roast Battle has been pitting comedians against each other heads up – no brackets, no competition for a championship, just comedians roasting each other. This season we’ve already seen some great competitions between spouses (Joe List and Sarah Tollemache), battle regular, and in last night’s case best friends Joe Machi and […]