Holy crap, it’s September already! That means that November is just around the corner which, more specifically, means that Team Coco is gearing up for the big man’s triumphant return to television. So far, details on the new venture, aside from its place on TBS at 11 pm EST, have been scarce – until now! Watch the video below, in which a still-bearded Conan reveals the title of his new show in a barren office!

This kind of doesn’t surprise us at all. Margaret Cho who has just released her first musical comedy album and who is continuously pushing herself deeper and deeper into the arts will be one of the celebrity contestants on this season’s Dancing with the Stars on ABC.

She’s one of the stars of Lifetime’s original series Drop Dead Diva and is in midst of a national tour in support of her aforementioned album Cho Dependent. When is this powerful woman going to find time to learn, rehearse and execute the demanding dances seen each year on this mega popular show?

In any event, let’s hope she fairs better than fellow comedian Jeffrey Ross who competed on the show during its seventh season in 2008. He and his pro dance partner Edyta Sliwinska were the first couple to be eliminated.

That’s right, comedy lovers. You read that right. For today only, you can download Doug Benson’s brand, spanking new album — his third — for $3.99. We’ve listened to the disc a few times already. If you’re a fan of Doug’s, you won’t be disappointed. New ground really isn’t the order of the day for Doug, but the man will make you laugh your ass off.

To check out the full thing, you need only click this link and start consuming. And tomorrow, on Punchline Magazine, we’ll be rolling out a new video interview with the man himself.

Iconic stand-up comedian Robert Schimmel is in very serious condition after he, his daughter and son veered off a road in Arizona on Thursday.

TMZ is reporting that Schimmel’s daughter, 19 was driving the car, with the comedian in the passenger seat and his 11-year-old son in the back. “Sources tell us the daughter swerved to avoid an accident in her lane and the car rolled over on to the side of the freeway,” the website reports.

Schimmel’s son was released without injuries on Thursday; his daughter was admitted and is in stable condition. Schimmel, himself, is still in an unnamed hospital.

The well-respected comic is now almost as known for beating cancer as he is for his blue humor. He published his memoir Cancer on Five Dollars a Day (chemo not included): How Humor Got Me Through the Toughest Journey of My Life in 2009.

Check out this video interview below Punchline Magazine did around the time of his book’s release.

Last Month, in our post about Louis C.K.’s new hour-long special Hilarious getting an official premiere date — write it down; EPIX on Sept. 18 — we quickly mentioned that the already critically acclaimed concert film (it was screened at Sundance) would have a limited run in theaters. Well, today, we’re simply giddy to let you know where and when that’s all going down: Sept. 8. is the big day.

And with that info, here’s our suggestion to unite comedy nerds in the cities of Austin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington DC: get a large group together and go to this film. It’s not at all normal to see a stand-up comedy concert film in movie theaters; it’s a rare thing. So get out there en masse and laugh your asses off!

All the info you need is below. Pass it on.

Austin:
7:00 PM screening at Alamo Drafthouse Lake Creek, 13729 Research Blvd., Austin. Tickets go on sale on Friday, August 27 at 10:00 AM and are available through drafthouse.com.

Boston:
7:30 PM screening at the Kendall Square Cinema, 1 Kendall Square, Boston. Tickets go on sale on Friday, August 27 at 4:00 PM and are available through the Kendall Square Cinema box office or online at landmarktheatres.com.

Chicago:
7:00 PM screening at Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago. Tickets go on sale on Friday, August 27 at 5:00 PM and are available through etix.com.

Los Angeles:
TBA

New York City:
7:30 & 9:45 PM screenings at IFC Theater at Waverly, 323 Avenue of the Americas, New York City. Tickets go on sale on Friday, August 27 at 10:00 AM and are available at the IFC Theater Box Office or through ifccenter.com.

Philadelphia:
7:30 PM screening at Prince Music Theater, 1412 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. Tickets go on sale on Wednesday, September 1 at 12:00 PM and are available at the Prince Music Theater Box Office, the Trocadero Box Office or online at ticketmaster.com.

San Francisco:
7:30 PM screening at Embarcadero Center Cinema, One Embarcadero Center, Promenade Level, San Francisco. Tickets go on sale on Friday, August 27 at 10:00 AM and are available through landmarktheatres.com.

Washington DC
7:30 PM screening at Arlington Drafthouse, 2903 Columbia Pike
Arlington, VA. Tickets go on sale on Friday, August 27 at 8:00 AM and are available through arlingtondrafthouse.com.

Listen up, comedy nerds. Mark Sept. 14 on your calendars. That’s when the album from The State, titled Comedy For Gracious Living, that you never knew existed – or did you? — is set for release.

“It was a freeing experience because no one was watching over us, there were no ‘adults’ around,” original member Kevin Allison told USA Today. “We’d swim and drink and gamble all day and record the silly ideas we’d had that day up into the wee hours that night like kids making tapes in the basement. If you listen, you can hear the ice clinking in the rum drinks we had in hand at all times.”

The album, to be released by Rhino Records, was recorded in the Bahamas in January of 1996 and features the talents of Michael Ian Black, Michael Showalter and David Wain, as well as Kerri Kenney-Silver, Thomas Lennon and Ken Marino.

You can pre-order the album and listen to samples here. Do it!

In case you haven’t heard already, Michael Ian Black is a stallion. And if you sneak up behind him, chances are you’ll be kicked. Hard. In the teeth. And balls.

Case in point: Black’s Saturday night tirade on a stand-up stage in Columbus, Ohio. After the subject of Obama was brought up, an irate audience member (frustrated with the inability to pinpoint the president’s real nation of birth as a European one, no doubt) hollered out “Heil Hitler!” Naturally, Black, being both of the Jewish and sane persuasions, took umbrage to this assessment, and laid into said audience member with the following:

How dare you compare Hitler to this president or any president? How dare you equate what he did with Obama is doing? Do you have any idea how insulting that is? Do you know anything about history? Do you have any idea what Hitler did? He killed six million of my people, which is six million more than Obama has killed. You’re a fucking idiot. You’re a fucking moron. You’re the fucking problem with this country. You and your reflexive retardation.

At this point, the barely-concealed Tea Bagger walked out in disgust. (A friend of mine told me she wished she’d been there to give Black a standing O. I would’ve liked to give him a different kind of O, but we shan’t touch upon that.)

Later, Black pleaded mea culpa on his Tumblr, posting something to the extent of “fighting fire with fire is stupid, mmmkay?”

But now I feel bad. I feel bad because, in retrospect, that guy didn’t deserve that. Yes he said something incredibly stupid, but my response was just as stupid. I could have made my point a million different ways without screaming into a microphone in a room filled with drunk people. I wasn’t clever, I wasn’t thoughtful, I said nothing that would move the conversation forward. I just yelled because Nazis push my Jew button (my Jew button is located right below my tail).

I, for one, don’t feel that he has anything at all to apologize for. Having spent enough time around Tea Baggers and the half-wits who love them (but don’t ask why), it’s taken every fiber of my being to keep from developing a stupidity twitch. Perhaps fighting fire with fire is the most apt way to get singed, but for a cult of individuals who equate one of the world’s most moderate, centrists G20 leaders with one of the world’s most diabolical, blood-thirsty monsters, stupidity is probably the only language in which these people are fluent.

If what we’re hearing becomes reality, at the very least, comedian Christian Finnegan will, over time become a lot more recognizable to the masses. The rarely-wrong Deadline.com is reporting that TBS sitcom Are We There Yet?, based on Ice Cube’s 2005 flick of the same name is getting a 90-episode order.

Finnegan plays the best friend of the lead character, Nick (Terry Crews).

Deadline reports:

This marks the third straight series from distributor Dembar-Mercury to receive a massive pickup following a trial 10-episode run on TBS and the first for a non-Tyler Perry show. I hear Debmar-Mercury is planning to take out Are We There Yet? out in syndication shortly, following the template it developed with Perry for House of Payne that was also used for Perry’s Meet the Browns.

This is all after the show ended its trial run June 30, averaging nearly three million viewers each episode.

Here at the old Punchline Magazine printing press, we’ve been doing a lot of reporting (read: drooling over) on Margaret Cho and her forthcoming musical comedy tour; undertaken, naturally, in support of her forthcoming musical comedy album, Cho Dependent.

The album springs forth on Aug. 24 and the tour kicks off on the 26 in Portland, but what’s the latest update to make us go gaga* over Cho?

Why, the recent announcement that a portion of the Cho Dependent’s tour proceeds will be forked over to charity, of course!

(*Note: We could’ve gone with a horrendously overused Lady Gaga reference/pun here, but chose not to. Be happy.)

So here’s the lowdown: after spending some time down on the Gulf coast in Mississippi recently, Our Lady Margaret was moved to compassion for the suffering marine life, afflicted by an unprecedented amount of black stuff in the water, and decided to name the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies as beneficiary to the sales of Cho Dependent VIP tickets.

Thanks to a boost from Live Nation and Frontgate Tickets, 10 VIP ticket packages will be made available to members of Cho’s fan club for each city stop on the tour – a deal which includes “show tickets, an autographed DVD and a backstage meet and greet and photo opportunity with Margaret at the show,” saith an official press release.

And with the VIP tickets running about $55 more than regular show tickets, you can bet that those seals down in the Gulf will really have something to clap about now.

As always, check out the Lady Cho’s official website for more deets and ticket sales.

Yesterday, Patton Oswalt tweeted that he’ll have his first book published “in exactly 5 months.” Stop! Don’t even try to do the addition. We’ve already gathered in a room with our cat calendars and iPads — the only piece of technology flat and shiny enough to do that kind of work — and figured it out for you. The book is coming out Jan. 4.

The book is titled Zombie Spaceship Wasteland. It’s 256 pages. It will be released in hardcover, eAudio, eBook and CD, according to the Simon & Schuster site.

No description for the book was given on either Amazon or Simon & Schuster’s site. So why don’t you make up one. Leave some in the comments section. Oh, and you can buy the book before it has a description or cover, for that matter. Just click the image below!