Here's the first episode of Reggie Watts's new JASH web series, Life on the Road, which documents him on tour. The first episode finds him performing with Police Academy sound SFX whiz Michael Winslow for a meeting of the weird noise-making minds.
Comedy Bang Bang experienced a podcasting milestone this week that few other shows have achieved: a 200th episode. Here's full video of the 200th show, released via Earwolf and the Video Podcast Network. Scott Aukerman's guests are Jason Mantzoukas and Andy Daly, who are probably the best guest duo in Comedy Bang Bang history. Here's to 200 more episodes!
Following the immense success of Key & Peele, Comedy Central is betting big on sketch shows this season. With The Ben Show and Inside Amy Schumer still to air this winter, the network this week launched a high-profile new show, Kroll Show, fronted by one of the most recognized and beloved names in comedy. Nick Kroll's characters are a mainstay of Comedy Bang! Bang!, while his dry wit is on display as Ruxin on FX's The League. I caught up with Kroll recently to discuss reality TV, character work, and the perks of having your own sketch show.
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Comedy Bang Bang #191- 2012 Holiday Spectacular
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Scott Aukerman's live L.A. standup show Comedy Bang Bang ended its 10-year run last week with a big holiday show. Today, Aukerman has released a special one-off podcast via his network Earwolf, featuring backstage interviews with a bunch of comedians at the last show, including David Cross, Paul F. Tompkins, Andy Richter, Patton Oswalt, Jon Hamm, Todd Glass, Jake Fogelnest, Garfunkel and Oates, Chris Hardwick, Kristen Schaal, Anthony Jeselnik, Doug Benson, Chelsea Peretti, Nick Kroll, and Thomas Lennon, amongst others. All the comedians are supposed to just talk about how much the show and Scott mean to them but mostly just do bits.
Comedian/musician Reggie Watts is currently filming the second season of IFC's Comedy Bang Bang, and he just released two music videos for the new YouTube channel JASH, which he's collaborating on with Michael Cera, Sarah Silverman, and Tim & Eric. Watts sat down for a question-and-answer session on Reddit yesterday, and here are all the best bits and pieces from it:
On Comedy Bang Bang Season 2:
We're halfway through filming season 2 of Comedy Bang Bang. Scott is one of the smartest, funniest guys I know and it's a pleasure to work with him. We goof around and make bad puns to each other a lot.
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IFC announced today that it's renewed the sketch comedy/talk show Comedy Bang Bang for a second season, doubling its first season order for a total of 20 episodes this time around. These 20 episodes will air in two chunks of 10, one in third quarter 2013 and the other in fourth quarter 2013. Production on Season 2 is apparently already happening in LA. Hosted by Scott Aukerman, the man behind the podcast and long-running LA live show of the same name, Comedy Bang Bang, debuted on IFC last summer with a 10-episode season that featured big-name guests (Zach Galifianakis, Amy Poehler, Jon Hamm) and comedy nerd favorites (Paul F. [...]
Here's a delightful video from Comedy Bang Bang host and Earwolf Podcast Network boss Scott Aukerman, announcing his participation in Adam Carolla's Video Podcast Network (or VPN), which just launched this week and will present fully-produced visual versions of popular podcasts. Earwolf shows like Comedy Bang Bang, Paul Scheer's How Did This Get Made?, and Howard Kremer and Kulap Vilaysack's Who Charted? will be recording live visual episodes for VPN. VPN launches this Friday at the Sundance Film Festival with a live Comedy Bang Bang with guest Paul Scheer set for 5PM PST/8PM EST. Hit the jump for the full schedule of shows (including You Made It Weird and Call Chelsea [...]
2012 was the end of an era for the Los Angeles comedy scene, as Comedy Bang Bang, the influential weekly stand-up showcase co-created by Scott Aukerman, ended its ten year run earlier this month. Comedy Bang Bang (originally titled Comedy Death-Ray) will live in on in the form of the popular podcast and IFC show of the same name, but the live show's impact upon the L.A. comedy scene (and the comedy world at large) is endless. Comedy Bang Bang first started in 2002 when the term "alternative comedy" actually meant something, years before Zach Galifianakis was a major movie star or Louis C.K. was the country's leading [...]
Founded in 2002, the live stand-up showcase Comedy Bang Bang (formerly Comedy Death-Ray) has been a staple of the Los Angeles comedy scene ever since (even spinning off a popular podcast and IFC TV show of the same name), but Bang Bang ended its heroic 10-year run last night with a star-studded, 4-hour Christmas show at the Ricardo Montalban Theatre. Dubbed the "Comedy Bang Bang Nativity Pageant," it's an annual event hosted by Comedy Bang Bang founder Scott Aukerman, who rounds up all of his big-shot friends for a jam-packed evening of stand-up, with all proceeds going towards feeding the homeless via the LA Food Bank. The previous Tuesday was [...]
Michael Cera, Sarah Silverman, Tim & Eric, and Reggie Watts have teamed up to create content for a new YouTube channel called Jash, which is set to launch next week. The five comedians will be kicking things off by sitting down with Scott Aukerman for a live episode of Comedy Bang Bang at the South by Southwest festival, video of which will be streamed live this Sunday at 1pm EST/10am PST at this YouTube link. Feel free to just hang out on that blank YouTube page for the next 40 hours and wait.
Scott Aukerman and Jeff Ullrich's comedy company Earwolf has partnered with the Video Podcast Network to start releasing live video episodes of its most popular shows. Here's Comedy Bang Bang's first video podcast, which was recorded at the Sundance Film Festival last weekend, with guests Casey Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Lake Bell, and Paul Scheer (as sleazebag Hollywood promoter Scott Jeffries). A live Earwolf show (either Who Charted?, How Did This Get Made?, or Comedy Bang Bang) will stream every Thursday at 6PM PST on Earwolf's YouTube channel. Watching podcasts is more exciting than watching radio shows but less exciting than watching TV shows.
Huell Howser, a beloved television personality best known for hosting the travel show California's Gold on California PBS stations, passed away yesterday at the age of 67. Comedian James Adomian, who has been performing an affectionate impression of Howser in his stand-up act and on the podcast and TV versions of Comedy Bang Bang, and he penned a touching tribute to the departed for LA Weekly that's worth the read for James Adomian and Huell Howser fans alike. And here's Adomian playing Howser on Funny or Die last year.
"Harris Wittels… asked if he could debut sort of an anti-comedy character. The character was 'Jack From The Lumberyard,' and what he wanted to do was play this character and actively try to never say anything funny… which is really difficult as a comedian, because your natural timing takes over, and even if you’re not saying anything funny, the timing can be funny. So it was a really interesting choice for him to try to do something that was never funny and never interesting. That was the other part of it: It could never be interesting… he was talking to Adam Scott at Parks and Recreation, where Harris is a [...]
