Last night, the Comedy Awards aired on Comedy Central. After last year's ceremony, we discussed the Comedy Awards' biggest problem – it's an award show. From the Oscars down to whatever Nickelodeon's award show is called, the actual honor inherently doesn't really mean anything beyond it's nice to win things and it's nice when people we like win things. So the Comedy Awards, which seem even more trivial because they are so young, are nice because our favorite people get to be honored. They can, and will, self-deprecate towards it but it's still a worthy moment for people who wouldn't otherwise get that level of moments. As Paul [...]
(This picture is from the Time 100 Gala, where Amy "accidentally" photobombing Hilary Clinton and Louis C.K.)
Last night, Amy Poehler was on Letterman and he used that opportunity to gush about Parks & Recreation like he was stepping on bag of Gushers. (You can see the clip here.) He explains, "It's very funny – very consistently funny. The cast is unequaled on television." I know right, Dave? Seriously though,it was a really nice little moment and Amy is obviously touched. For all the show's female comedian issues earlier in the year, it's hard to argue that when Letterman himself finds a woman comedian funny, like [...]
Unpopular Opinions is a new weekly column in which a writer takes a stand against popular opinion, whether it's asserting the true merit of a supposedly guilty pleasure or dissenting against the universally lauded.
Joke “stealing” is not a new phenomenon. Hell, Milton Berle basically made a career out of it, earning himself the nickname, “The Thief of a Bad Gag.” With the rise of the Internet and cellphone cameras, however, it seems like fans have started to care more. But how did something that used to only be a comedy community matter give birth to a legion of joke vigilantes?
Let’s start with a couple examples.
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Louis C.K. just announced via Twitter that Susan Morse, a longtime editor of Woody Allen's films, will be editing season 3 of Louie. Her movie experience will likely make her a good fit, since episodes of Louie tend to feel more like short films than sitcom episodes. It's a first for C.K. to surrender some control over the show, which he notoriously wrote/directed/edited all by himself in its first two seasons. Maybe he's getting ready to devote more time to his CBS pilot if it goes to series?
Louis C.K.'s return to Parks & Rec can't come fast enough to satiate our cravings for his mumbling, misdirected sentences and doglike devotion to Leslie. Here's a clip from his upcoming episode, in which he takes out Leslie Knope (who clearly has not told her current boyfriend about her cop ex-boyfriend) and Ben "Third Wheel" Wyatt. (Take a hint, Wyatt! Go eat a calzone, or join the cast of a Ben Stiller movie, or something.)
