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Dan Harmon Addresses Fans at Communicon, the First-Ever 'Community' Convention

by | February 11th, 2013

"For two seasons, we wanted to do an episode where Jeff Winger pretended there was a class called "Nicolas Cage Appreciation," and then the Dean caught them and as punishment to them he was going to make that a real class and force them to watch all the Nicolas Cage movies in one night."

- Community creator Dan Harmon speaking at the world's first-ever Community convention. Head over to Flavorwire for other stuff he said during his speech.

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NYC Podfest Is Coming

by | January 2nd, 2013

The New York City Podcast Festival (or NYC Podfest, as cool people like me call it) is happening next Saturday and Sunday, January 12th and 13th, at The PIT, and a lot of the big East Coast podcasts are coming out for the event. Amongst the 25+ shows that will be recording live episodes on The PIT's two stages are The Dork Forest with Jackie Kashian, Risk! with Kevin Allison, Dave Hill's Podcasting Incident, Myq Kaplan's Hang Out with Me, Beginnings with Wrestling Team, and Splitsider Podcast Network podcasts The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin Show and It's That Episodewith Craig Rowin. Folks like Wyatt Cenac, Gary Gulman, Julieanne Smolinski, [...]

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Max Greenfield Was Too Shy to Tell Lorne Michaels About His 'SNL'-Themed Bar Mitzvah

by | January 29th, 2013

New Girl star Max Greenfield went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night and shared this funny story about deciding to tell Lorne Michaels about his SNL-themed bar mitzvah and then wimping out. I guess Lorne Michaels never stops being a super intimidating figure for comedy people, even when you're the star of a hit network show.

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Watch Tina Fey, Jimmy Kimmel, Alec Baldwin, and Ray Romano Honor David Letterman

by | January 2nd, 2013

The annual Kennedy Center Honors were held a few weeks ago, with late night pioneer David Letterman being amongst those recognized at the prestigious White House ceremony. The event aired last week on CBS, and it's now been uploaded online. Big-time comedy people Tina Fey, Jimmy Kimmel, Alec Baldwin, and Ray Romano all trekked out to Washington to pay tribute to Letterman, who seemed to not hate the whole ceremony as much as you'd expect Letterman to hate something like this. Hit the jump for the rest of the Letterman portion of the ceremony and to see Jimmy Kimmel offend an important ballerina.

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These Tina Fey/Amy Poehler Golden Globes Promos Are Delightful

by | January 4th, 2013

Here's your 2013 Golden Globes hosts, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, recording a series of funny promos for the show, which is happening Sunday, January 13th, and is sure to be the peak of awards shows that can never possibly be reached again (unless they're allowed to host together next year). Only nine more days, everybody!

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Barack Obama Salutes David Letterman and People Who Aren't David Letterman at the Kennedy Center Honors

by | December 3rd, 2012

The annual Kennedy Center Honors were held last night at the White House, with President Barack Obama and a bunch of celebrities paying tribute to the year's honorees, a group that included David Letterman and some other people (Led Zeppelin, blues musician Buddy Guy, ballerina Natalia Makarova, and Dustin Hoffman). The show will be broadcast December 26 on CBS. On the red carpet, Letterman told the press he was excited to win the award and for the trip to the White House, saying, "It supersedes everything, honestly. I haven't won that many awards."

Tina Fey, Alec Baldwin, Jimmy Kimmel, and Ray Romano were on hand to honor Letterman. Fey [...]

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