Here's the latest episode of Jennny Slate and Gabe Liedman's web series Bestie X Bestie, made for Funny Or Die. This time around, they're finally getting to the bottom of Tom Bergeron and Vin Di Bona's party animal lifestyle.
After nearly a year and a half away, best friends and comedy partners Jenny Slate and Gabe Liedman brought back their web series Bestie X Bestie for a new episode for Funny Or Die's digital magazine The Occasional. Hopefully, there are more of these on the way, as the two are still really spontaneously funny together.
A wildly-funny performer who’s been wowing audiences in both the New York and L.A. comedy scenes for years now, Gabe Liedman makes his standup album debut this week with Hiyeeee!!, a new release from AST Records. It’s a delightful recording that perfectly captures Liedman’s fast-paced riffs on pop culture and human behavior and demonstrates exactly why he’s become such a sought-after act. In addition to his own standup, Liedman is also a blogger, hosts and books the long-running Wednesday night NYC standup show Big Terrific (which he founded with frequent partner in crime Jenny Slate), and is writing for Amy Schumer’s upcoming Comedy Central sketch show. I recently [...]
“What if moles wrote in tiny notebooks called human skins?” Go. “I don’t believe the Grinch’s heart could’ve grown three sizes in one day.” Make a hilarious comment. “Do people with alopecia still get browbeaten?” No time to think or write anything down. Just let ‘er rip.
Improv’s tough. Being stream of consciousness funny without any prep or thought about what would be the most genius thing to say in a given moment — it’s not for the faint of heart. Sure the streets of New York and LA are crawling with self-proclaimed “improv aficionados”, masters of “scream at the top of your lungs, now pretend you’re a chicken [...]
Here's a new episode of Bestie X Bestie, Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate's ridiculous ode to their lifelong best-friendship. It is insane and also makes one want to hang out with these two sometime.
For the past 15 years, Comedy Central’s half hour specials have showcased the future stars of standup. Looking back, the early years of Comedy Central Presents included memorable sets from the likes of Mitch Hedberg, Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Dane Cook and dozens more. Re-branded The Half Hour in 2012, the series continues to feature the best up-and-coming comics in the country.
For many comedians, it’s that history that makes doing a half hour special so significant. While a half hour may once have been a comic’s first major exposure, comedians now have many ways to build an audience. Almost everyone who taped a special this year does non-standup [...]
Influential NYC stand-up show Big Terrific is celebrating its fifth anniversary tomorrow with a big ol' show featuring Pete Holmes, Nick Turner, the return of co-host Gabe Liedman, and surprise guests (co-host Jenny Slate will make an appearance via video because she's busy filming a pilot with Kristen Schaal and June Diane Raphael). Time Out New York has a fun interview with Slate, Liedman, and their fellow co-host Max Silvestri that you should totally read if you can't make it to the show like Jenny Slate (probably with a much worse excuse).
"Could James Adomian become the first man to break through as an openly gay stand-up star?" asks Jason Zinoman in his New York Times piece on contemporary gay comedians. He talks about such other notables as Gabe Liedman, Brent Sullivan, Kevin Meaney, Todd Glass, and Eliot Glazer; however, the most focus is paid to James Adomian. Maybe it's a lot of pressure to put on James but luckily he is one of the most funny and original people on the planet.
Jenny Slate and Gabe Liedman's latest Bestie by Bestie contains what I consider a remarkably spot-on impression of some key Fleetwood Mac members. Stevie Nicks would be complaining about the lack of cauldron space in her daughters' condo. Lindsay Buckingham would be…stroking out while trying to fit his absurdly large penis in his mouth. It's like they just appeared in the room, only to disappear again!
Here's a new video from Gabe Liedman and recent SNL casualty Jenny Slate. It is about best friends and what said best friends think about books, and it makes me wonder just why the hell Jenny Slate isn't on SNL anymore. [via]
Inside Amy Schumer premieres tonight at 10:30 p.m. eastern on Comedy Central. Gander at your local cable box's listings to confirm this. The first episode is available on Comedy Central's official website now.
Comedy Central has been riding a hot streak lately, and it more than continues with Inside Amy Schumer.
Comedy Central has long been the best showcase of stand-up on TV, and every year, the network releases a series of half-hour specials from talented folks. The Comedy Bureau has obtained a list of comedians set to record specials this year, and it's an especially strong group. The half-hour specials will be release as part of Comedy Central's show The Half-Hour, which is the successor to its old show Comedy Central Presents, and the batch of episodes should drop sometime this summer. The list lists Jonah Ray, Sean O'Connor, Dan St. Germain, Mike Lawrence, Dan Soder, Nikki Glaser, Jared Logan, Gabe Liedman, Baron Vaughn, Ben Kronberg, and Sean Patton as all having new specials on the docket. It's a [...]
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New York has a lot of great weekly comedy shows and thankfully BlackBook made it slightly easier to navigate by highlighting five of the very best. Besides the above video about Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler's Hot Tub, there are videos below covering John Gemberling and Anthony Atamanuik's Tony & Johnny Show, Max Silvestri and Gabe Liedman's Big Terrific, Joe Mande and Noah [...]
It's time once again for another episode of Bestie by Bestie, which finds lifelong buddies Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate probing each other's most sensitive areas to discover their deepest regrets. For Jenny, that would have to be losing her virginity on Sept. 10, 2001. Which incident was more emotional traumatic in the long run? 9/11, definitely. Ah, but which one was the most socially devastating? Gabe's high school sandal addiction, definitely.
