Comedy Central announces the 2019 class of half-hour comedians
Comedy Central’s long-running half-hour stand-up comedy series, Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents (that’s the 3rd re-branding if you’re keeping score at home) has its list of the class of 2019. Ten up-and-coming comedians will each record half hours. David Gborie is a Los Angeles-based stand-up comic, actor and writer originally from Denver, CO. Gborie’s recent credits […]
Mike Lawrence thinks there was a different villain in “The Lion King”
This weekend Mike Lawrence’s second Half Hour is set to premiere on Comedy Central. Lawrence has been steadily working the last few years as a writer/performer with everything related to a roast on Comedy Central as well as writing for TV. On this advance clip from the show, we see Lawrence compare the most recent […]
Here’s your schedule for Comedy Central’s new season of Half Hours
It’s a right of passage for emerging comedians to get a Comedy Central Presents The Half Hour Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents half hour special. Pretty much every great comedian you can think of has gotten one over the course of the last 2+ decades, and though the show’s title has changed a few times over […]
Comedy Central announces 2018 class of Half Hours, includes Tim Dillon, Megan Gailey, and Mike Lawrence
Comedy Central has just announced its 2018 lineup for Half Hour specials and it includes some of the best in new and emerging talent. The new round will once again tape in New Orleans at the Civic Theatre on December 8th and 9th and air in early 2018. Emmy Blotnick is a stand-up comedian, actress and […]
Comedy Central announces dates for its new round of Half Hours
A while back, Comedy Central announced its class of comedians getting half hour specials on their newly re-branded Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents (that’s the 3rd re-branding if you’re keeping score at home). Those half hours were taped at the end of the Spring and now the network has released the schedule of when the half […]
R.I.P. Lashonda Lester, Austin’s funniest person
Just a few weeks ago at SXSW we met the 2016 Funniest Person in Austin. Her name was Lashonda Lester. She was pleasant and sweet and spoke with us about her budding comedy career and the city of Austin as we sat in the front picknic table at an Above Average Afterparty in the Rainy […]