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The Trailer For Atlanta FX Season 2 Is Now Here!!

January 8, 2018ComedyHype

Ladies and gentleman, it’s officially ‘robbin season’. We’ve waited a whole year for Atlanta’s season 2 to premiere and now it is just months away. Over the weekend, Donald and crew released the first-look trailer for the upcoming season. Knowing Donald’s work, there are probably small hints of what we can expect this time around […]

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‘It sounds like Michael Bubbly!’ Big Shaq rates his rivals for Christmas No 1

December 15, 2017TheGuardian

The coat-obsessed Man’s Not Hot rapper has made the viral pop hit of the year – and could now be the Christmas No 1. So does he think he can beat Ed Sheeran, Mariah Carey and Gregory Porter?

Amid the usual sleigh bells, string sections and festive lyrics in this year’s Christmas No 1 race comes a man in a big coat, adamant that he is not overheating. Big Shaq’s Man’s Not Hot has become a snowballing breakthrough hit during the last few months: a parody of hardnut London rappers who use ridiculous slang, impersonate gunshots, and never, ever take off their coats. The knowingly witless aggression of its lyrics – “take man’s Twix by force” – makes them endlessly quotable, earning the track more than 100m views on YouTube and 74m streams on Spotify. It’s even been repeated in parliament by Peterborough MP Fiona Onasanya.

Thirty Christmases review – a merry little comedy about festive stress

December 13, 2017TheGuardian

New Diorama, London
A reunited brother and sister try to repair their relationship at Christmas time in this amiable show with songs

Christmas is a time to be with family. But what if your family is fractured? That’s the question at the heart of this amiable show, written by and starring Jonny Donahoe, with songs from his duo Jonny & the Baptists. The tunes include that festive classic Don’t Be a Prick at Christmas.

Donahoe and comedian Rachel Parris play siblings, Jonny and Rachel, who were raised in a car by their socialist Jewish agnostic father, a man who lived by different rules. Christmas was spent in other people’s homes, often uninvited. There was the year they sat outside the house of their mother, eating corned beef sandwiches, watching her celebrate with her new family through the window. And there was the year they turned up unannounced on the doorstep of some Norwegians briefly met at an airport.

Reggie Watts teams up with producer John Tejada to form electronic group, Wajatta

November 27, 2017TheLaughButton

Reggie Watts is going back to his musical roots. The comedian/late night bandleader has teamed up with producer John Tejada… MORE

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Are you gruesome tonight? The comedy hit splicing Evil Dead 2 and Elvis songs

November 14, 2017TheGuardian

In Sam Raimi’s horror classic, a man is tormented by demons and his own severed hand. All the story needed was a few tunes by the king of rock’n’roll, says Rob Kemp

By day, he was a mild-mannered examinations officer at a school near Wolverhampton. By night, he was a chainsaw-wielding maniac with a soft spot for Elvis numbers. No, that’s not a pitch for a B-movie, but the life of standup comic Rob Kemp. The 39-year-old will spend much of the next month commuting between the West Midlands and Soho theatre in London, shedding the briefcase and tie en route to re-enter the underworld of The Elvis Dead, his rock’n’roll-meets-horror one-man comedy show that became the cult hit of this summer’s Edinburgh fringe.

Hitherto, Kemp had been a specialist in “whimsical” (so he’s told) standup and was “bumping along largely unnoticed”. His only previous show, little seen, was a Dave Gorman-esque comedy lecture about hubris. The Elvis Dead (it’s a retelling of Evil Dead 2 set to the music of Elvis Presley) was dreamed up in conversation with a friend, based on Kemp’s supposed resemblance to horror icon Bruce Campbell. “There was nothing cynical about it,” he says, in case you’re thinking that the Elvis/Evil Dead mashup was a ruthlessly commercial cash-in. “I just wanted to write something that I knew my mates would enjoy.”

Lefty Scum: Josie Long and the protest jokers serenading the Labour faithful

November 2, 2017TheGuardian

Can funny songs change the world? Jonny & the Baptists and Grace Petrie join Josie Long for a spirited night of comedy that imagines nationalising the queen’s swans and banning Daily Mail readers from seeing their grandchildren

Prospects have changed dramatically for UK lefties over the last six months. As recently as spring, leftwing politics was strictly for masochists, as the Labour party – according to received wisdom – set its course for electoral oblivion. Now, it’s the government in waiting, even after losing that June election. “I know we lost,” says protest singer Grace Petrie on stage tonight. “But it was my favourite one we’ve lost.”

Tim Heidecker’s Album of Trump Songs ‘Too Dumb for Suicide’ Is Out Next Week

November 1, 2017splitsider

Tim Heidecker has compiled all of his Trump songs into one handy digital album you can own next week. Titled Too Dumb for Suicide: Tim Heidecker’s Trump Songs, the album will be available through Jagjaguwar/Rado Records on Election Day 2016’s one-year anniversary next Wednesday, November 8th, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated […]

The Two Worlds of Tawny Newsome

October 27, 2017splitsider

Career-wise, comedian, actor, and musician Tawny Newsome is having a very diverse year. She’s a recurring standout guest on some of comedy’s best podcasts, starred in Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, can currently be seen on BET’s The Comedy Get Down, and is wrapping up a music tour with Jon Langford’s Four Lost Souls, a band whose […]

Tim Minchin: ‘If you ask Mum who was the most trouble, she’d say it was me’

October 27, 2017TheGuardian

The comedian, actor and musician on being part of a strong, close family, his parents’ high expectations, and discovering he could write good riffs

My granddad had a 1,500-acre hobby farm that he had built up from scratch in Western Australia, so my siblings and I spent our childhoods going there a lot. That place – and the beach – was a huge part of our lives. I would define myself as someone who had a completely idyllic childhood. Except, of course, that childhood’s complicated!

I was the middle of three children and then the second of four kids when my little sister came along, when I was 10. We all got along, and were expected to do so. We had periods of arguing, but it is a real privilege being part of a gang. I guess that is something I worry about with my kids – that there are only two of them [Minchin and his wife, Sarah, have two children, Violet, 11, and Caspar, eight]. We kids did a lot together, so we never found a reason to reject each other’s choices. I guess it is an affirmation of our relationships – why wouldn’t we want to be with each other?

Related: Tim Minchin: My life as a dad

With the piano, I had that insatiable need to prove myself

It’s business time as Flight of the Conchords announce UK tour

October 24, 2017TheGuardian

Musical comedy duo Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement reunite for a string of live dates after solo roles in Hollywood and on TV

OK, band meeting! The Flight of the Conchords have announced that they are preparing to tour the UK and Ireland. The musical comedy duo, comprising Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, will be dusting down classics such as Hiphopopotamus v Rhymenoceros, Foux du Fafa and Business Time for a string of dates starting at the Hammersmith Apollo, London, in April 2018.

McKenzie and Clement met at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand and began to play genre-mashing spoof songs at fringe nights, gaining an international audience with their award-winning set at the Edinburgh festival in 2002. The following year they returned to Edinburgh and played the Gilded Balloon, where their show High on Folk was heralded by the Guardian as a “late-night gem”. After recording a BBC radio series and winning a Grammy for best comedy album, they made two seasons of an Emmy-nominated TV series for HBO, charting the band’s attempts to break America.

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