On the day Conan O’Brien and friends perform in New York City as part of the 2018 New York Comedy Festival, Team Coco has released the premiere date and initial lineup of guests for O’Brien’s podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend debut…
Continue ReadingSiriusXM today announced that Amy Phillips, a comedian who impersonates the Real Housewives of Bravo, will now host her own show, Reality Checked with Amy Phillips, every weekday on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy channel. Her show will include her own parodies,…
Continue ReadingBelieve it or not, the final episode of Conan on TBS aired tonight. The regular weeknight show is going on hiatus until January 2019, when it’ll return in a new comedy-packed half-hour format. In the meantime, Conan O’Brien is keeping busy and won’t be far from your eyeballs and ear holes. We’ve already told you […]
Continue ReadingYou want to get your TBTs on in a very comedy way? Starting this week, your ear holes can deliver the history of comedy into your brain parts, thanks to the brand-new podcast, The History of Standup. Over the course of six weekly episodes, teacher Wayne Federman (who is a legit professor of comedy at […]
Continue ReadingNorm Macdonald’s publicity tour for his new Netflix talk show continues to make massive headlines. First, his interview with The Hollywood Reporter prompted SNL buddy Jimmy Fallon to cancel Macdonald’s scheduled appearance on Tuesday’s taping of The Tonight Show (with Macdonald in his Tonight Show dressing room to learn that news). Then Macdonald went on […]
Continue ReadingAfter serving time as host of NBC’s Last Comic Standing and helping to judge Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle, Anthony Jeselnik is back where he belongs: starring in his own Comedy Central series. “Sometimes the best move is a lateral move!” said Jeselnik. Comedy Central announced a new deal with him that will see Jeselnik […]
Continue ReadingAndy Kaufman once (or maybe many times, depending upon the audience) read a great work of literature onstage to see how far the audience would go along with him. HBO is now making a comedy special that’s just that? Well, sort of. Hit British comedy podcast My Dad Wrote a Porno will be televised. Not […]
Continue ReadingAudible, Amazon’s audio arm, has ramped up its original comedy programming to go along with an already-robust array of audiobooks narrated by comedians this summer. To wit: In mid-July, Audible released both a podcast series from Bob Newhart as well as an exclusive audiobook-only memoir from David Spade. Since then, we’ve seen… A memoir and […]
Continue ReadingIn two-and-a-half years, My Favorite Murder has grown from oddity of the Feral Audio podcast network, to headlining touring theater act, to millions of monthly downloads. Now the comedians who started My Favorite Murder are starting their own podcast network: Exactly Right. When Feral Audio bit the dust at the end of 2017, in part […]
Continue ReadingIn two-and-a-half years, My Favorite Murder has grown from oddity of the Feral Audio podcast network, to headlining touring theater act, to millions of monthly downloads. Now the comedians who started My Favorite Murder are starting their own podcast network: Exactly Right. When Feral Audio bit the dust at the end of 2017, in part […]
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