Here's Tig Notaro's first-ever remote segment on Conan, in which she goes around to various businesses in LA and tries to get them to hang her autographed headshot on the wall. She has much better luck than Chris Gethard, who tried a similar thing for IFC last year but couldn't get any businesses to take his headshot, proving that it's way easier to get a headshot hung up in LA than it is in New Jersey. Also, calling Sarah Silverman on speakerphone in front of the store owner doesn't hurt.
Scrubs and Cougar Town creator Bill Lawrence sold two shows to different networks today. The first is Ground Floor, a workplace rom-com for TBS that he co-created with Greg Malins (How I Met Your Mother). The show stars Skylar Astin (Pitch Perfect), Briga Heelan (Cougar Town), John C. McGinley (Scrubs), James Earl, Rene Gube (writer for Up All Night), and stand-up Rory Scovel (Zach Stone). Deadline reports that the cable network has picked up the show for a 10-episode first season, set to debut in 2014.
Lawrence's second sitcom sale of the day is Undateable to NBC. Lawrence is only serving as executive producer on Undateable; the show [...]
Michael Ian Black and D.L. Hughley will be dueling game show hosts. TBS announced today that the two comedians will host Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host, a series from reality kingpin Mark Burnett in which one of the two hosts is trying to present the contestant with a wrong answer and one is telling the truth. Hughley and Black will each share a bizarre fact with the contestant, who will have to choose which one isn't a lie. Trust Me, I'm a Game Show Host is set to premiere in late 2013, unless that's a lie too.
Pete Holmes has a new stand-up album coming your way real soon. Called Nice Try, The Devil, the album drops May 14th and is available for pre-order now. Holmes, the host of the popular Nerdist podcast You Made It Weird, was recently made the host of a new TBS late night show, debuting this fall after Conan. Nice Try, The Devil is his second album after 2011's Impregnated with Wonder. The album cover (to the left) makes it feel almost like he purposefully chose one that Marc Maron would give him shit for.
World class stand-up Jimmy Pardo is also the audience warm-up guy on Conan, and last night, he got to appear on the show for a chat with Conan O'Brien. Of course, it involved Conan goading him venting about testicular problems and an embarrassing trip to the doctor's office.
