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Interviews

Talking to Scott Aukerman About the 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' TV Show and His Career That Prepared Him For It

by | June 4th, 2012

When talking with Scott Aukerman, he referred to himself as "America’s least likely television star." It was a joke but one rooted in a certain truth. In a different time, Scott is not someone who would've gotten to star in his on television show – who would've had his face plastered on billboards in Times Square. He would've been another respected working comedy writer that only the most obsessive nerds would know by name. But thankfully Scott was able to work in Hollywood in a time that allowed him to slowly develop a brand and a comedic voice that is distinctly his own.

From working on Mr. Show to [...]

Hunks

Jon Hamm and Reggie Watts Perform a Song about 'Taxi'; Bring Smiles to Faces

by | May 8th, 2012

It’s hard to tell if this clip is from an episode of Comedy Bang! Bang! or a clip from the filming of an episode but it is the best. Right? What can be better than Jon Hamm, backed by Reggie Watts, singing/talking a pretty thorough synopsis of Taxi and a thoroughly pretty Christopher Lloyd impression? (A few things, sure, but not a lot.) Will CB!B! be an awesome fun time? We'll have to see when it premiers on June 8th but for now, we can say for sure the filming of it must have been.

Lost Roles

The Lost Roles of Rainn Wilson

by | April 19th, 2012

Lost Roles is a weekly column that takes a particular comedic performer or writer and dives deep into all of their movie and TV projects that came close to happening but didn’t for one reason or another. This week, we turn our attention to The Office's Rainn Wilson.

On The Office, Rainn Wilson created one of the most beloved sitcom characters of the past decade with Dwight Schrute, a character that’s proven so popular that he’s been chosen to be the show’s Frasier Crane (and hopefully not its Joey Tribbiani). Outside of The Office, however, he’s had a tough time making his mark in the movie industry. When [...]

Podcasts

The Earwolf Challenge Declares its Winner

by | September 14th, 2011

It's a big week for the Earwolf podcasting network for two reasons: 1) Earwolf's partnership with Funny or Die just kicked off on Monday, and 2) After two months of intense competition, it's time to crown the winner of the first-ever Earwolf Challenge. In the contest that aims to be the American Idol of comedy podcasting, 10 amateur programs entered for a chance to become Earwolf's newest show. The winning podcast will appear amongst the other shows on Earwolf's official website (and on Funny or Die) for one year, providing a major boost in listeners from what's become the leading network in comedy podcasting.

IFC

Comedy Death-Ray Comes to IFC Between Classic Comedies

by | January 3rd, 2011

Beloved podcast Comedy Death-Ray has made a transition to TV, with host Scott Aukerman doing interviews with various comedy-types such as Sarah Silverman and Andy Dick between airings of classic cult comedies such as The Larry Sanders Show, Undeclared and Arrested Development on IFC. Look for the Aukermaned-up programming blocks Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights from 10-11:30. Above, Andy Dick gets teased for claiming to have turned down a role on Arrested Development.

Previews

Call in Sick And Watch An Episode of 'Comedy Bang! Bang!' and 'Bunk'

by | May 24th, 2012

You might be reading this while you're already at work. If so, start pretending to cough. Can you do a fake sneeze? Yes? Then do it… now. And keep on going. You need to get home super fast to watch these FULL EPISODES of Comedy Bang! Bang! and Bunk. Amy Poehler (who's totally not wearing a wig), Andy Daly (as Don Dimelo!!!), and David Koechner guest on CB!B! above and Eugene Mirman, Kumail Nanjiani, and Tom Lennon guest on the episode of Bunk below. We've seen clips from both but what do we think of these full episodes? Zany stuff, right? Also, below Bunk is a clip of Will [...]

Videolists

Walking Through the History of 'Between Two Ferns' with Scott Aukerman

by | May 4th, 2012

With the Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York debuting Sunday at 8:30 before the Comedy Awards, I thought it was a perfect time to look back at the Between Two Ferns series. B2F has been incredibly popular, bringing in over 80 million views across the entire series, on Funny or Die alone. Beyond that, whenever a new one is released, it nearly instantly reaches Internet omnipresence.

It's hard to say why exactly the series has had such enduring popularity, as it has maintained relevance for over four years now (which is nearly four zillion years in Internet time or 28 years in dog time). Of course, it's wildly funny and unique [...]

Lost Roles

10 More Promising TV Pilots That Weren't Picked Up

by | February 2nd, 2012

Every year during TV's pilot season (it's happening right now!), each network develops three times as many shows as it actually needs, seeing what works and what doesn't before deciding which shows to pick up. While most of the rejected shows are turned down for a reason, every once in a while, TV networks let a show slip by that could have turned into something special. Let's take a look back at 10 TV series that networks passed up, including the shows that spun off Spinal Tap and Between Two Ferns, the community college comedy that's not Community, and a show that's been described as "Reno 911! in space."

Pilots

IFC Announces Scott Aukerman, Kurt Braunohler As Show Hosts, Greenlights Three Docu-Comedies

by | March 23rd, 2011

I'm going to have to invent a device to slow the rotation of the earth in order that I may watch all of the great shows coming out this summer; nothing useful with my time, just watching TV 49 hours a day. IFC has announced that a variety show hosted by Comedy Death-Ray's Scott Aukerman, as well as Pointless, an improv "anti-game show" hosted by Kurt Braunohler, are in in the works. IRC also ordered four new original shows, three of which are documentary-style comedies:

  • Commercial Kings: comedy duo Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal travel across America creating commercials for local businesses, based on their site [...]
Fox

Patton Oswalt and Scott Aukerman Developing a New Show for Fox

by | October 21st, 2010

Fox is apparently developing a single-camera half-hour comedy with Patton Oswalt, and it certainly sounds promising: Oswalt has teamed with former Mr. Show writer Scott Aukerman to write and executive produce a comedy series in which Oswalt would star as a man whose wife of 20 years splits, forcing him to re-enter the dating world and fend for himself.

TV

Summer Comedy Preview: TV

by | May 15th, 2012

Charlie Sheen is finally coming back to TV everyone!!!! Splitsider readers will no doubt be dancing in the streets when the Two and a Half Men man himself returns to our television sets with a new show this June, but that's not the only TV comedy event of note this summer. While the broadcast networks are taking a much-needed three-month break (probably to reflect on the rapidly-declining popularity of broadcast networks), America's heroic cable channels are swooping in to save the day, offering up a plethora of new comedic programming for comedy snobs and people who like comedy but aren't snobs, alike.

Let's take a look at this summer's [...]

Comedy Central

"Between Two Ferns" More Like "Between Two Ferns and Before The Comedy Awards"

by | April 23rd, 2012

This morning, Scott Aukerman announced on his podcast, Comedy Bang! Bang!, that he recently directed a half-hour special, starring Zach Galifianakis, entitled Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York that will air right before The Comedy Awards, on May 6th. Guests will include Tina Fey, Sir Richard Branson, and Jon Stewart. Considering the super popular web series' unique blend of awkward mean honesty here is my best guess of what each interview is going to be like:

Tina Fey: "Is hard for you to be around funny people? And by that, I mean men. You are kinda pretty for a "comedian" but how did you get that [...]

New Shows

Things I Want to Do to IFC's Two New Comedies

by | January 9th, 2012

IFC just announced two new comedies: a Whose Line Is It Anyway?-style game show hosted by Kurt Braunohler and a Comedy Bang! Bang! talk show based on the podcast. Here are some things I would do to these two shows:

- hold them up to each other like plastic dolls and push their show-lips together really hard so it's like they're passionately French kissing.

- coat them in the dust that comes off my fingernails when I use an Emery board and also tiny bits of my skin and hair so they are cozy forever in a soft blanket made of my DNA.

- hug them so hard [...]

Interviews

Scott Aukerman Interviews Judd Apatow and Paul Feig for IFC

by | February 1st, 2011

As part of its series of interstitial interviews to compliment its 10-11:30pm programming blocks of cult comedies, IFC has set up interviews between Comedy Death-Ray's Scott Aukerman and Freaks and Geeks creators Judd Apatow and Paul Feig. Annoyingly, these are being doled out in one-minute increments between shows, and no full-length program is planned to show them. Fair enough, I guess. A web-only clip is above, and here's the schedule for the airing of the interviews:

Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Feig and Apatow, Feb. 2: Apatow Feb. 7: Feig, Feb. 8: Feig and Apatow, Feb. 9: Apatow Feb. 14: Feig, Feb. 15: Feig and Apatow, Feb. 16: Apatow

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