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This Week in Comedy: Bill Hader, Fred Armisen, and Maybe Jason Sudeikis Leaving 'SNL'

by | May 17th, 2013

-Bill Hader is leaving SNL after eight years, and we made a videolist of his best sketches. Fred Armisen is leaving, too (and Jason Sudeikis "probably") so we made a list for Armisen as well.

-Seth Meyers is officially taking over Late Night in 2014.

-USA ordered Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham's pilot to series.

-In honor of The Office ending, we remembered our favorite moments from the show.

-Netflix unveiled the first trailer for the new Arrested Development and a Tobias-themed website.

-Adam Scott's next Greatest Event in Television History will be [...]

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This Week in Comedy: A Big Week for 'Nathan for You's Nathan Fielder

by | April 26th, 2013

-Comedy Central renewed Nathan For You for a second season, following Nathan Fielder's Twitter prank that went viral and destroyed parent-child relationships across the country.

-IFC launched a new web series starring James Adomian as Maron in Space and released a preview episode of Maron.

-We unveiled our new digital distribution label Splitsider Presents and premiered our first movie, documentary-comedy hybrid The Exquisite Corpse Project.

-Waynes World had its reunion, and the SNL library is moving to Yahoo in September.

-We talked to stand-up and author Jen Kirkman, stand-up and writer Michael Che, stand-up and Daily Show correspondent Al Madrigal, Veep and Arrested Development star Tony Hale, [...]

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This Week in Comedy: 'Arrested Development' Gets a Premiere Date, and Fallon is Officially the 'Tonight' Host

by | April 5th, 2013

-Season four of Arrested Development will premiere on Netflix May 26th with 15 episodes instead of the previously announced 14.

-It's official: Jimmy Fallon is taking over The Tonight Show in February 2014. All the major late night hosts commented on it, and Seth Meyers is the frontrunner to become Late Night's new host.

-Whose Line is it Anyway? will return on the CW July 16th.

-USA may save Happy Endings if ABC doesn't.

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This Week in Comedy: Broad City Gets a TV Show, JASH Launches, and Timberlake Visits 30 Rock

by | March 15th, 2013

- Comedy Central ordered a show from Broad City, produced by Amy Poehler.

- Sarah Silverman, Michael Cera, Tim & Eric, and Reggie Watts launched their YouTube channel JASH.

- We wrote about Maria Bamford and how she uses comedy to deal with mental illness.

- Justin Timberlake hosted a star-studded episode of SNL, and spent a week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

- We researched and analyzed which comedy theaters SNL cast members come from.

- Kristen Schaal and Jenny Slate joined June Diane Raphael in the ABC pilot Pulling, [...]

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This Week in Comedy: 'Mr. Show' Creators Releasing a Book, Wiig and Rogen Join 'Arrested Development,' and More

by | February 22nd, 2013

-Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are releasing a book of unproduced scripts in September.

-Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair are making a new show together for USA.

-We gave you a list of books to add to your comedy bookshelf.

-This week in future guest spots: Patton Oswalt is going to guest star on Parks and Rec, Seth Rogen and Kristen Wiig will both be on Arrested Development's new season, and Justin Timberlake is returning to SNL.

-We talked to Jake and Amir about their web series and Ryan Quincy, creator of IFC's new animated series Out There.

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This Week in Comedy: Networks Announce Their New Sitcoms, and New Albums from Rick Moranis and Andy Kaufman

by | May 10th, 2013

-NBC, CBS, and Fox announced their new fall sitcoms. Andy Samberg and Mike Schur's Fox cop show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, is the most promising of the bunch. NBC unfortunately passed on SNL writer/stand-up John Mulaney's pilot.

- Parks and Recreation got renewed for a sixth season, and NBC officially canceled most of its comedies (Go On, Whitney, 1600 Penn, Up All Night, and Guys with Kids). Community's chances look good, much to the chagrin of Community fans.

-We previewed this summer's comedy movies and TV shows.

-Rick Moranis is coming out with a new album, his first comedic venture in eight [...]

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This Week in Comedy: Patton Oswalt, A 'Simpsons' Writers Roundtable, and Funny or Die's First Movie

by | April 19th, 2013

-Patton Oswalt, Amy Poehler, Craig Ferguson, and Jon Stewart all delivered poignant responses to the tragedy in Boston.

-Speaking of Patton Oswalt, he delivered an excellent filibuster on his dream Star Wars sequel on the set of Parks and Rec.

-Conan O'Brien brought together a bunch of the best Simpsons writers for a roundtable discussion.

-Funny or Die released its first full-length movie iSteve.

-We talked to Burning Love creator Erica Oyama and Your Pretty Face Is Going to Hell star Craig Rowin.

-Pitch Perfect 2 is official and will be released in 2015.

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This Week in Comedy: FX's New Channel, Lorne Michaels's Peabody, and Norm Macdonald's Podcast

by | March 29th, 2013

-FX is launching an all-comedy channel in September called FXX, led by It's Always Sunny and The League.

-Lorne Michaels, Girls, Louie, D.L. Hughley's Comedy Central special,  all won Peabody Awards.

-We picked 9 potential Weekend Update hosts if Seth Meyers leaves to host Late Night

-Norm Macdonald launched a video podcast.

-We collected the annotated wisdom of Dan Harmon.

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This Week in Comedy: Jon Stewart, Howard Stern, and a Sketch Show from The Birthday Boys

by | March 8th, 2013

-IFC ordered a sketch show from The Birthday Boys produced by Bob Odenkirk and Ben Stiller.

-Jon Stewart is taking the summer off from The Daily Show to direct his first movie, a geopolitical drama.

-NBC is allegedly grooming Howard Stern to replace Jimmy Fallon when the time comes.

-We talked to Jon Glaser about the end of Delocated, Pete Holmes about his new TBS late night show, Howard Kremer about Who Charted? and his new album, and Jesse Thorn about his deal with NPR.

-We gave you the ten SNL hosts we'd like to have back and the ten first-time hosts we'd like to see.

-Martin Short and Elliot [...]

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This Week In Comedy: Notes from the 'Party Down' Reunion and an Oscar Edition of 'Between Two Ferns'

by | February 15th, 2013

-Highlights from last weekend's San Francisco Sketchfest include interesting tidbits from the Party Down reunion as well as a look at The State's revival of Sex a.k.a. Weiners and Boobs.

-We talked to Ken Marino and June Diane Raphael about Burning Love Season 2, and comedian Nick Flanagan about his punk rock roots.

-We showed you the 82 best comedies currently streaming on Netflix.

-Zach Galifianakis hosted a star-studded Oscar edition of Between Two Ferns: Here's Part 1 & Part 2.

-We dug deep into David Letterman's self-loathing.

-Chelsea Peretti and Andre Braugher have both been cast in Mike Schur [...]

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This Week in Comedy: Marc Maron Is Everywhere and Chris Hardwick's New Late Night Show

by | May 3rd, 2013

-Chris Hardwick signed on to host a new Comedy Central late night show with Tom Lennon and Ben Garant as showrunners.

-HBO renewed Veep for a third season, and Adult Swim renewed The Eric Andre Show for a second one.

-We checked out Marc Maron's new book Attempting Normal, looked back on some of the best episodes of his podcast, and talked with the man himself about his new IFC show Maron.

-Inspired by Maron, we picked ten comedy podcasts that would make great TV shows.

-We talked to Matt Walsh about HBO's Veep, to Bo Burnham about his new MTV show, and [...]

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This Week in Comedy: RIP Jonathan Winters and Mickey Rose

by | April 12th, 2013

-Improvisational force of nature Jonathan Winters passed away at 87, and we collected goodbyes from four generations of comedians.

-Mickey Rose, original writing partner of Woody Allen, also died this week, at age 77.

-Adam Scott is making another Greatest Event in Television History special for Adult Swim, this time with Amy Poehler.

-AMC is tinkering with the idea of a Breaking Bad spinoff starring Bob Odenkirk, and IFC has shows in development from Chris Gethard and Tom Scharpling, Megan Mullally, Garfunkel and Oates, and more funny people.

-We interviewed David Cross about Arrested Development and the unproduced movies he wrote with Bob Odenkirk.

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This Week in Comedy: Fallon's 'Tonight Show' to Move to NYC, Seth Meyers 'Late Night' Rumors, and HBO Cancels 'Enlightened'

by | March 22nd, 2013

-The NY Times reported that when Jimmy Fallon takes over The Tonight Show in 2014 the show will move back to New York City, which will mean a change for the city's comedy scene and that Jay Leno has to go somewhere.

-Despite critical acclaim, HBO canceled Enlightened.

-We gave you a guide to the Chicago comedy scene.

-Christina Applegate is in negotiations to join Ed Helms in the Vacation reboot. Steve Agee, Kumail Nanjiani, and Steve Little are all in Craig Robinson's new NBC pilot.

-There are two dueling Del Close biopics in development.

-We talked to Broad City's Ilana Glazer and Abbi [...]

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This Week in Comedy: Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock Perform Together, and Pete Holmes Gets a Talk Show

by | March 1st, 2013

-Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock performed together at New York's Comedy Cellar (twice).

-TBS ordered Pete Holmes's post-Conan talk show.

-We gave you the annotated wisdom of Louis C.K., whose new HBO special, Oh My God, comes out in April.

-Martin Short is in talks to join John Mulaney's Lorne Michaels-produced NBC pilot.

-We talked to Comedy Central's newest stars Ben Hoffman and Nathan Fielder and reviewed their shows, The Ben Show and Nathan for You.

-We dove deep into Boston's comedy scene.

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