Judd Apatow has a new book in the works. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apatow is writing a sequel to his 2015 book Sick in the Head called Sicker in the Head. Like the first book, the sequel will be a collection of Apatow’s interviews with comedians and feature Norman Lear, Kevin Hart, and Whitney Cummings. […]
Continue ReadingAlex Firer has written for The Onion, The Onion News Network, Paste Magazine, Cafe.com and can be seen every fourth Wednesday at the UCB in LA on his Maude Team, The Audacity. He’s fine and his head hurts. Kenny Keil is a writer and artist who has worked for MAD Magazine, Vibe Magazine, and Mass Appeal. […]
Continue ReadingThe comedian tells us why Francis Crick, Brian Cox and Stephen Hawking are the butt of his jokes in his new book and radio series
When I meet Robert Newman, he is wearing a homemade brain scanner on his head. He had it built as a prop for his most recent show about neuroscience. Newman is a writer and comedian who had a hugely successful career as part of a duo with David Baddiel in the 1990s and has since been doing his lecture-cum-standup style of high-brow comedy. His previous topics have included the history of oil, the war on terror and evolution.
Off stage, Newman is the only comedian to have been cited in the science journal Nature and he has written about neuroscience and robotics for Philosophy Now. He’s here to talk about his new book, Neuropolis, and its accompanying BBC Radio 4 programme, in which he guns for an unlikely bunch of targets – neuroscience writers – for having, he says, a reductionist view of the world.
It’s like there’s a competition among science writers – who can say the most horrible thing about humanity
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Continue ReadingStephen Colbert is turning one of his regular Late Show segments into a book. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Colbert has signed on to write a book based on the “Midnight Confessions” segment for Simon & Schuster, which will be available in print and audio form on September 5th. The book will include Colbert’s “favorite […]
Continue ReadingEddie Izzard’s new memoir Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens hits bookstores in June, and he’s going on a US standup tour to mark the occasion. Izzard’s tour will make stops in New York, DC, Phoenix, Seattle, San Francisco, and Boston from June 14th through the 22nd and feature Izzard performing […]
Continue ReadingEddie Izzard‘s new memoir, “Believe Me,” comes out this June, and the celebrated multilingual comedian will celebrate its release with a weeklong blitz of a book tour across America that includes stand-up, readings and audience Q&As. Tickets went on sale today for his “Believe Me” book release tour. Each ticketholder will receive a copy of […]
Continue ReadingJay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing and acting in film and television. With his group Broken Lizard, he has co-written, co-starred and directed their feature films, Super Troopers, Beerfest and Club Dread. He’s also directed the big-screen version of Dukes of Hazzard, small-screen episodes of Arrested Development, and appeared in a […]
Continue ReadingJay Chandrasekhar is a writer, actor, comedian, and director. He was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, and has directed many of their films including Puddle Cruiser, Super Troopers, Club Dread, and Beerfest in addition to a long list of TV shows including The Grinder, Arrested Development, Community, and Happy Endings. […]
Continue ReadingJay Chandrasekhar is a writer, actor, comedian, and director. He was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, and has directed many of their films including Puddle Cruiser, Super Troopers, Club Dread, and Beerfest in addition to a long list of TV shows including The Grinder, Arrested Development, Community, and Happy Endings. […]
Continue ReadingStandup and new CNN star W. Kamau Bell has written his first book, and it’s coming out in May. The book has an impressively long title: The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama’s Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian. Here’s […]
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