Behind the scenes photos of @JerrySeinfeld and @ChrisRock shooting Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in my hometown, Allendale, NJ! Check out Allendale Eats, owned by my high school classmate, on Facebook!
The sad thing, with all this taping and stuff, no one’s going to do stand-up. And every big stand-up I talk to says: “How do I work out new material? Where can you go, if I have a half an idea and then it’s on the Internet next week?” Just look at some of my material. You can’t imagine how rough it was and how unfunny and how sexist or racist it might have seemed. “N*ggas vs. Black People” probably took me six months to get that thing right. You know how racist that thing was a week in?
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Chris Rock to the Times about the Internet’s effect on club comedy. (ht Splitsider) |
‘Talking Funny,’ the 50-Minute Conversation Between Louis C.K., Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, and Ricky Gervais Is Available to Watch Online in Full for Free | Vulture
In which, CK, Rock and Seinfeld teach Gervais about stand up.
Talent and Presenters Announced for the 2012 Comedy Awards!
Along with the previously announced Robin Williams, who will receive the “Stand-Up Icon” award, and Don Rickles, who will be presented with the “Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence” by Jon Stewart, the show will feature presenters Chris Rock, Will Arnett, Tracy Morgan, Maya Rudolph and Adam Scott.
Other guests include Hannibal Buress, Ty Burrell, Louis C.K, Chevy Chase, Paul Feig, Tina Fey, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Annie Mumolo, Amber Nash, Jim O’Heir, Chris Parnell, Amy Poehler, The Gregory Brothers, Aisha Tyler and Kristen Wiig.
As if that wasn’t enough, Andy Richter will be returning as the show’s announcer, and The Roots will once again perform as the Comedy Awards house band.
More talent will be announced as the ceremony approaches. The second annual Comedy Awards tape in New York this Saturday and air on Comedy Central, Sunday, May 6 at 9/8c.
I love animation because in the world of animation, you can be anything you wanna be. If you’re a fat woman, you can play a skinny princess. If you’re a short, wimpy guy, you can play a tall gladiator. If you’re a white man, you can play an Arabian prince. And if you’re a black man, you can play a donkey or a zebra.
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| — | CHRIS ROCK, introducing the Best Animated Film Oscar. (via inothernews) |
SNL LAST SUPPER by Edel Rodriguez
From left to right: Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poehler, Bill Murray, Mike Myers, Chevy Chase, Tina Fey, Lorne Michaels, Will Ferrell, Conan O’Brien, Adam Sandler, David Spade, Chris Rock, Dan Aykroyd.
The Best of PCB 2011 - April: Comedy’s brightest talk the craft and Ricky Gervais was there.
Poster: HBO’s Talking Funny
With Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Louis CK - April 22nd at 9 pm
WTF Podcast Preview: Chris Rock tells Marc about his early days with Eddie Murphy (via WTFPodChannel)
Show goes up Thrusday.
Two years ago if you had told me I’d be missing the best basketball game ever to hangout with Nathan Lane…
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“Rock is the first choice to host this year’s telecast on June 12, say sources at the American Theater Wing, a co-producer of the telecast. He hasn’t been officially asked yet, but an offer is being put together this week.”
Michael Riedel reckons that Rock would “the sharp wit of an outsider bemused by the insular world of Broadway and its traditions” to the telecast and would be “terrific”.
I don’t know what I think about this. While I am a huge fan of Chris Rock and it would be fun to see him in the context of the Tony Awards, I rather enjoy the song-and-dance people they’ve had on over the last several years - Sean Hayes, Neil Patrick Harris, Hugh Jackman. I thought all of them did a fabulous job and it’s kind of a nice model they’ve got going on at the moment. I’m not sure how bringing on a stand-up like Chris Rock would affect the show.
I’d be into Bette Midler (currently represented on Broadway as a producer of Priscilla Queen of the Desert) but that’s probably a little more old school than what the Tony committee is looking for.
Poster: HBO’s Talking Funny
With Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, and Louis CK - April 22nd at 9 pm
TV Promo: HBO Comedy Special TALKING FUNNY with Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock, Louis C.K. and Ricky Gervais | Collider
Airs April 22nd at 9 pm. Can’t help but be reminded of Paul Provenza and Showtime’s The Green Room.
In honor of Presidents’ Day, enjoy this clip from Head of State
“That ain’t right.”
