Here's The Hollywood Reporter's hour-long comedy roundtable, featuring Kristen Schaal, Anthony Jeselnik, Nick Kroll, Rob Delaney, and Cecily Strong. From Kroll's story about bombing in front of Bill Murray when he was new at stand-up to Schaal discussing a particular network's reluctance to air shows with female leads, it's an interesting and fun chat all around.
On his new Comedy Central series The Jeselnik Offensive last night, comedian Anthony Jeselnik discussed the recent death of a New Zealand man who was killed by a great white shark and then proceeded to introduce a segment called "Shark Party!" in which he joked around about being excited about the tragedy and held a party to celebrate it while a bunch of ladies dressed as sharks danced with him. New Zealand's One News reports that the victim's family (unsurprisingly) was "disgusted" by the segment, which concludes with Jeselnik putting the victim's photo onscreen and calling him a "son of a bitch." Being deliberately shocking and offensive and [...]
Here's the first part of tonight's episode of Anthony Jeselnik's new show The Jeselnik Offensive, which debuts tonight on Comedy Central at 10:30. The show's basically Jeselnik and a panel of comedians joking about current events and pop culture, and his guests tonight are Aziz Ansari and Amy Schumer. Now that you've seen the first seven minutes of the episode, you can just start watching tonight at 10:37 instead of 10:30 to pick up where you left off.
New York Times' Jason Zinoman writes beautifully about the wall of signed photos at the back of New York's famed Comedy Cellar. Some comedians signed earnestly. Anthony Jeselnik wrote, “Thank you for being my family.” While others used their signature as a chance to make more jokes. Louis C.K wrote.: “I’m going to hate looking at this picture all the time. Please take it down when I die.” Sarah Silverman did her thing: “Dear Comedy Cellar: I’m pregnant. It’s yours. Love Sarah.”
Comedy Central announced today they picked up three new series to air in 2013. The Ben Show, is a weekly show in which Ben Hoffman embarks on a different life journey. He'll form bands, find religion, audition for a reality show (you know, famous people stuff). Next is a still untilted sketch show from Amy Schumer, in which a series of vignettes are built around her stand-up material. Lastly, there's Anthony Jeselnik's untitled weekly show that is described as a "topical series reflecting his dark and twisted point-of-view." That is vague, so my guess is that each week he picks some celebrity who died and makes fun of [...]
Comedy Central did the right thing today and picked up its critically-acclaimed series Nathan for You for a second season. Billed as a "docu-reality" series that follows comedian Nathan Fielder as he uses his business degree to advise struggling companies, Nathan for You is easily TV's best new comedy, and it should get even better in its second season. Created by Fielder and Michael Koman (Eagleheart, Conan), Nathan For You wrapped its eight-episode first season last week. The network says Season 2 will debut in 2014 and consist of 10 episodes this time around. Hopefully, Comedy Central will allow Fielder to strap himself to the front of a plane to [...]
"I would give away everything that I have to be a 'Weekend Update' anchor, and I don’t think it will ever happen. It’s one of those things that would have been my dream job, but as I was coming up, SNL never called me. They never asked me to submit a packet or come on board … I’ve always told agents and managers if that job is ever in play, I want to be in the conversation, even if it’s just to have my name brought up in the room. But I would throw everything away to be the 'Weekend Update' anchor."
-Anthony Jeselnik to The AV Club in a long [...]
Comedy Central just slated a huge batch of new and returning shows for midseason 2013. Here's info on the new shows and when you can see them:
Kroll Show – Jan. 16 - Nick Kroll's new sketch show featuring his beloved characters like Fabrice Fabrice, Bobby Bottleservice, and the Ed Hardy Boyz, plus a slew of new ones and guest stars like Fred Armisen, Andy Daly, Kathryn Hahn, and Ed Helms.
The Jeselnik Offensive – Feb. 19 - Anthony Jeselnik's topical show which sees him tackling the latest headlines, joined by a panel of two other comedians each week.
The Ben Show – Feb. 28 - A [...]
Comedy Central must have a ton of confidence in Anthony Jeselnik, because the network has given him a new show with a premiere date and everything without even knowing what it’s going to be. Jeselnik and his creative time are still trying to figure that out.
But the confidence Comedy Central has in him doesn’t come close to matching the confidence the 33-year-old comic has in himself. He just exudes it on stage. A lot of it is couched behind the asshole character he performs as who thrives on the audience’s uneasiness with his abortion jokes, basically daring them not to laugh. But he possesses a genuine self-assurance [...]
Comedy Central is developing shows from Rob Delaney, Eugene Mirman, Amy Schumer, Anthony Jeselnik, Kumail Nanjiani, Wyatt Cenac, and more (full list below). Here are some things I would do to this development slate:
- Slowly chew it up and swallow it and have all these comedians in my stomach making hilarious jokes to the layers of mucous cells lining it as pepsin gradually breaks them down until they are a part of me.
- Paint a series of nude portraits of each show's star and then sneak into the White House and Buckingham Palace and replace all the pictures of presidents and kings with the paintings.
[...]Comedian Anthony Jeselnik is the last person you'd expect to see on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, considering how the former puts so much effort into being edgy and the latter into being tame and inoffensive. Nonetheless, Jeselnik did the show last night and he fit in nicely, even though you could totally make an '80s fish out of water comedy about a comedian like Jeselnik going on a show like Leno.
"On Fallon, we would have these pitch meetings. And every single time I would pitch, it would be the biggest disaster of all time. Some of the writers would laugh, but Jimmy would always stare at me as if I was trying to make fun of him, which I wasn’t at all. The producer said to me a couple times, 'Listen, we all know you’re funny, but these bits you’re pitching, they’d be great for The Anthony Jeselnik Show, but they’re not right for The Jimmy Fallon Show.' And after a couple times hearing that, I was like, 'God, that Anthony Jeselnik Show sounds really funny.'"
- Anthony Jeselnik, star of Comedy Central's new series The Jeselnik [...]
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What an odd choice of pre-roll graphics. Are they implying that lightning created the fires? Like God is roasting Roseanne? Or is Roseanne supposed to be in hell? Are we all in hell? Who's in hell, Comedy Central!? Maybe you can figure out with the other preview clips below.
As is the case with their roasts, Comedy Central has assembled a rag tag group of comedians, celebrities, and "celebrities" to roast Roseanne. The list includes Sharon Stone, Carrie Fisher, Katey Sagal and Seth Green (expect Green Party jokes) because I assume they are friends with Roseanne or something. Stone will likely fill the role of crazy person, which has long been a fixture of the roasts. In terms of pros, Jeffrey Ross, Amy Schumer, and Anthony Jeselnik will be there to actually make the thing watchable. The roast shoots this Saturday and will air on August 12. More names will be added in the coming days; hopefully, [...]
