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Comedy Central Announces 19 New Shows In Development

Over the years, Comedy Central have made some of the greatest comedians of our times into the forefront and made them household names. Comedians live Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell all got their start on Comedy Central. Now Comedy Central have released their 2011-2012 slate of shows in development, which among the 19 shows, includes some of the greatest comedians of today getting their own programs.  read more

Bob's Burgers Review: Series Premiere

In 1999, Lauren Bouchard and Brendon Small teamed to create Home Movies, a charming cartoon about an eight-year-old would-be auteur. It was canceled after a season on UPN before being rescued by Cartoon Network's Adult Swim....  read more

High Definition: Fall 2010 TV Pilots That Might Not Suck

Keeping an eye on the TV pilots in development for the major broadcast networks is a little like the baseball draft. You can get excited about that lanky lefthander with the 96-mile-an-hour fastball, but there’s no guarantee that he’s ever going to even play for your major league team. Still, there’s no real harm in getting a little excited about the possibilities of TV shows which sound more original than they probably are—even though they’ll probably get beat out by a remake of Hawaii Five-O, another procedural spin-off (this time, from Criminal Minds) and the third Christian Slater vehicle in...  read more

Eugene Mirman, Isaac Brock, James Mercer, Todd Barry to Play Cancer Benefit in Seattle

Getting defriended sucks. As we rack up friends on Facebook, Twitter and all the other myriad social media outlets cropping up, defriending is reserved for the worst of the worst—the scourge of the earth. Really, who could deserve such a fate more than cancer?...  read more

Comedian Eugene Mirman to Host SXSW 2010 Film Awards

This year’s SXSW festival just got a little funnier. Paste’s eighth favorite comedian of the last decade and all-around hilarious dude, Eugene Mirman, is slated to host the 2010 SXSW Film Awards in Austin, Texas on March 16....  read more

How to Survive the Next Year, By Eugene Mirman

In 1996 we all thought that by 2010 the world would be an unrecognizable dystopia...  read more

John Oliver's TV Show to Feature Eugene Mirman, Paul F. Tompkins, Janeane Garofalo, Many More

Comedy Central certainly can recognize when it’s found talent. First, it spun off the popular Stephen Colbert into his own Colbert Report, propelled from his success on The Daily Show. Now, the cable network has offered another one of Jon Stewart’s correspondents the chance to go solo....  read more

The 10 Best Comedians of the Decade (2000-2009)

Being a funny person on a stage is not easy. It takes a unique determination to stand in front of complete strangers and hope they get it the way you get it...  read more

Paul Banks, Eugene Mirman, More Perform at Second "It Came From Brooklyn" Concert Tonight

Looks like the folks at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Manhattan have another night of Brooklyn artistry in store for this evening. The night of music, literature, comedy and art arrives as the second installment in the museum's "It Came from Brooklyn" series, a component of its 50th anniversary celebration held in the famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda. It will feature performances from Julian Plenti (as in Interpol frontman Paul Banks, who recently released an album under said pseudonym) and I'm In You, as well as readings by writers Hampton Fancher and Rivka Galchen. All the while, absurdist comedian Eugene Mirman (whom you might recognize from...  read more

Eugene Mirman Preps New Album, Comedy Festival in Brooklyn

Eugene Mirman, everyone's favorite comedian/sketchy Flight of the Conchords landlord/occasional three-star general, is currently prepping the release of a brand-spankin'-new comedy album. Always a politically correct comedian, Mirman has titled his latest record God Is a Twelve-Year-Old Boy with Asperger’s. Hey, wait a second......  read more