Christian Finnegan is in the midst of a national tour in support of his new album and DVD, Au Contraire! You may have caught our exclusive “At Home”-style interview with him a few weeks ago.
Regardless, what you need to know now is that Punchline Magazine is giving away tickets to some of his upcoming shows. Simply email us at contest@punchlinemagazine.com, give us your full name and say what show you want to go to and you will find yourself with a pair of tickets to see Finny live!
Here are your options:
6/2 Austin – Alamo Drafthouse
6/3 Houston – Improv
6/4 Dallas – Hyenas Comedy Club
6/5 Denver – The Walnut Room
6/24 San Francisco – Purple Onion
6/25 Hollywood – Improv
You can buy Finnegan’s DVD and CD on Amazon or if you have no patience and hate awesome artwork and packaging, pick it up on iTunes. Check out Christian’s official site for more info.
After the jump, check out a video interview we did with Christian a while back:
Back in April, Punchline Magazine reported on the announcement of TBS’ upcoming Chicago comedy festival, AKA TBS Presents a Very Funny Festival: Just For Laughs. Now, the network plans to take it one step further. The self-described “Very Funny” cable channel has just announced plans to launch a late night stand-up T.V. series, hosted by Tim Meadows.
The show will use footage taped at the aforementioned festival. The show’s 10 episodes will be made up of sets from 30 comedians who appeared at Chicago’s Zanies Comedy Club.
“This series demonstrates how our comedy festivals are more than just first-rate showcases through which we can extend the TBS brand,” says Dennis Adamovich, TBS’ senior vice president and general manager of comedy festivals. “They are also an outstanding opportunity to mine fresh talent for the network’s comedy lineup.”
The TBS festival will also fuel full-fledged specials by Ellen Degeneres, Martin Short and David Alan Grier.
Gay Robot is finally making it to TV – albeit not as a live action series but as part of Nick Swardson’s upcoming sketch comedy show. Swardson announced via his Myspace blog that his show was picked up for six episodes.
It’ll be my own sketch show with Gay Robot animated a part of the sketch show. It’s more in the vain of Mr. Show and Human Giant. I’m so psyched. Gonna be DOPE.
Also part of the project is Tom Gianas who has written for shows like Saturday Night Live, Tenacious D, and Human Giant. Gianas worked with Swardson on the original live acion Gay Robot series.
Some of the top working stand-up comedians in the country will be starring in G4’s new TV series, The International Sexy Ladies Show. The show will air funny and provocative TV/DVD clips of women from Spain, Russia, Japan, Italy, and more. The clips will feature introductions and commentary from a panel of your favorite comedians: Doug Benson, Steve Byrne, John Caparulo, Mitch Fatel, Jo Koy, Sherrod Small, and the UK’s Alex Zane. The show premieres June 7 at 9:30 p.m. EST. Check out some previews below.
On June 8, British standout comedian and Last Comic Standing star Matt Kirshen, along with six other comics will participate in a groundbreaking stand-up event. Twitter will debut their first comedy show in what constitutes a new form of live entertainment. The show, Twitcom will show a new role of the stand-up comedian, with comics relying on their computer or cell phone for their performance.
Comedian Tiernan Douieb first developed this idea. “I was doing a poorly attended gig and complained about it in my Twitter updates,” Douieb told Seven Magazine. “Some of my followers pointed out that I had a bigger audience online, so I should do a gig for them. It seemed like a fun idea. I got in touch with all the comics I knew who were frequent tweeters and generally they all seemed keen.”
Despite the lack of the comedy club atmosphere, the audience will still be able to comment on and even heckle the comics during the show. This performance may be the first of many Twitcom shows, as Douieb said that a sponsorship is possible in the future.
The lineup of the other comics at Twitter’s first-ever comedy night includes Matt Kirshen, Terry Saunders, Carl Donnelly, Mitch Benn, Gary Delaney, Rob Heeney, and Mark Watson.
More information about the show can be found at Twitcom’s official site and on Twitter here: @tweetcomedyclub.
You are probably well aware that Friday marks Jay Leno’s last appearance as the host of The Tonight Show, a job he’s done for the past 17 years. He’s moving on to hosting his own prime-time chat show in the fall and in the process handing over the Tonight Show to Conan O’Brien.
As we were scouring the regional Alabama news sites (as we do every day), we came upon this wee story about two local comedians who have been writing jokes for Leno’s show the past half decade. We kind of always picture writers of late-night talk shows sitting in swank offices, writing jokes, bouncing ideas off one another and all that fun stuff to cobble together a coherent night of comedy. And all that probably happens. But dudes at home in Alabama — maybe even in their PJs — are also writing things Leno is saying; and, they’re getting paid for it. And it looks like they’re going to stay on Leno’s payroll. Check out the video below.
Beating out the likes of Tori Amos and Busta Rhymes, Dane Cook’s new album Isolated Incident has debuted on Billboard’s Top 10, landing at a very respectable No. 4. His second Top 10 release of his career, Cook sold 61,000 copies of the CD/DVD in its first week. His 2005 double album and DVD, Retaliation also debuted and peaked at No. 4, selling 86,000 copies in its first week; it went on to spend 84 weeks on the list.
We’re not going to lie. We’re already looking forward to the premiere of Daniel Tosh’s new Comedy Central show Tosh.0, wherein the comedian makes fun of the latest viral videos. But for some odd reason, this video of Todd Glass verbally assaulting Daniel and addressing the reasons why the show will be a 100 percent failure makes us want to watch the show even more. Check it out.
Fans of Steven Wright, rejoice! Warner Bros is re-releasing Wright’s classic album, 1985’s I Have a Pony on June 2. What’s more is that Wright’s HBO special of the same year, A Steven Wright Special will be included in the packaging. For now, enjoy a taste from the DVD portion of this exciting release.
We’d like to think of this as yet another piece of proof that the national stand-up comedy scene is stronger than ever. It seems Midol, the over-the-counter medication that helps alleviates menstrual cramps, aches and bloating, has enlisted veteran comedian Lynne Koplitz to help sell their product.
Check out another stand-up comedy Midol commercial after the jump.
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Christian Finnegan is in the midst of a national tour in support of his new album and DVD, Au Contraire! You may have caught our exclusive “At Home”-style interview with him a few weeks ago.
Back in April, Punchline Magazine reported on the announcement of TBS’ upcoming Chicago comedy festival, AKA 
On June 8, British standout comedian and Last Comic Standing star Matt Kirshen, along with six other comics will participate in a groundbreaking stand-up event. Twitter will debut their first comedy show in what constitutes a new form of live entertainment. The show, Twitcom will show a new role of the stand-up comedian, with comics relying on their computer or cell phone for their performance.
Beating out the likes of Tori Amos and Busta Rhymes, Dane Cook’s new album Isolated Incident has debuted on Billboard’s Top 10, landing at a very respectable No. 4. His second Top 10 release of his career, Cook sold 61,000 copies of the CD/DVD in its first week. His 2005 double album and DVD, Retaliation also debuted and peaked at No. 4, selling 86,000 copies in its first week; it went on to spend 84 weeks on the list.
