The incredibly talented and underused Maria Bamford will guest star on Comedy Central’s TheSarah Silverman Program tomorrow at 10:30 pm. She’ll play Mayor Kadoody, a politician Sarah gets behind and somehow convinces her friends and family to do the same. Affable on the surface, Kadoody has a sinister streak. Check out a preview below.
We love this character already, especially since the Bammer is bringing to the small screen a variation of a bit she recorded live for her latest album Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome. We dropped that album clip below. Check it out and compare it to her Kadoody character. Fun!
Sarah Silverman, Steve Agee, Laura Silverman last night at Largo in Los Angeles.
After over a full year off the air, the Sarah Silverman Program returns to Comedy Central next month, and the lucky few (and those of us who can blend in with the lucky few) were at a screening of the first two episodes at the Largo in LA last night.
No spoilers from me about the plots, except to say that the season opener is as funny and surreal and filthy as anything they’ve yet to do on the show. (Okay, small spoiler: it involves Sarah’s character’s ambiguous genitalia and contains a song called “The Baby Penis in My Mind” that’s dangerously catchy.)
Silverman introduced the episodes and stuck around for a brief, hilarious Tig Notaro-moderated Q&A afterward, along with her sister Laura and other cast members Steve Agee, Jay Johnston co-creator/writer Rob Schrab and writer Dan Sterling.
(Okay, one more spoiler: Maria Bamford is in the second episode as a character named May Kadoody. She owns it.)
The Q&A covered everything from “Is there anything Comedy Central won’t let you do?” to how they develop a one-sentence premise – “What if Sarah had a dick?” – into a full episode.
The show returns Feb. 4th at 10:30 pm. Imagine that: genuinely funny comedy in the 10 o’clock hour. See, it can be done…
This just might be the greatest holiday gift a comedy fan can get this season. The talented and super awesome Maria Bamford has released — for free! — her own Christmas stand-up special. Chock full of the absurd hilarity that you’d expect from The Bammer, this is truly the gift that keeps on giving laughs the whole year ’round. Enjoy and leave your comments below!
“March Madness” is on Prozac compared to the insanity of Black Friday, the starting line of the hysterical holiday- shopping season. In a series of pre-Christmas commercials for Target, our fave manic comic, Maria Bamford, gets us thinking in, well, present tense. Check out the five spots below! And tell us what you think in the comments section.
It’s Friday, folks, which means it’s time for us to let you in on who will be guesting on Marc Maron’s podcast WTF next week.
As a sponsor of the show and dedicated fans of the WTF cause, we’re proud to do it. So here it is. Janeane Garofalo makes her second appearance on WTF and the huge live WTF show recorded at the UCB theater in Los Angeles goes down with Maria Bamford, Doug Benson, Whitney Cummings, Jim Earl, Chris Hardwick and the mighty Eddie Pepitone.
Remember a few weeks ago when we reported on a series of stand-up tapings being hosted by John Oliver? You’re about to see the fruits of those tapings, and then some. Comedy Central has ordered six one-hour episodes of the series, which is appropriately titled John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show.
“When John Oliver said he wanted to host a stand-up series featuring his favorite comics, the only real question we had for him was ‘How soon can we do it?’” says Elizabeth Porter, Comedy Central’s senior vice president of specials and talent. “He’s a staple on ‘The Daily Show’ and is such an exceptional stand-up comic. It’s awesome to know our audience is going to get more of him this way.”
“It’s the most worthwhile way you could spend an hour each week that doesn’t involve getting Mount Rushmore gradually tattooed across your stomach,” says Oliver.
Guests on the series include Paul F. Tompkins, Janeane Garofalo, Marc Maron, Brian Posehn, Kristen Schaal and Eugene Mirman, as well as Maria Bamford, Greg Fitzsimmons, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Nick Kroll, Matt Braunger, Hannibal Buress, Pete Holmes, Amy Schumer, Chris Hardwick, Matt McCarthy and Hari Kondabolu.
The series premiers Jan. 8 at 11 PM on Comedy Central. Check it out!
Daily Show fans rejoice; you’re about to see even more of John Oliver. The affable British comedian will be hosting a series of stand-up comedy shows to be aired on Comedy Central later this year in a series called John Oliver and Friends.
Guests will include heavy hitters like Janeane Garofalo, Marc Maron, Brian Posehn, Paul F. Tompkins, Maria Bamford, Hannibal Buress, Wyatt Cenac, Greg Fitzsimmons, Nick Kroll, Eugene Mirman and Mary Lynn Rajskub.
And for fans in the NYC area, there’s even better news. You can attend the tapings for free! Three shows will take place over three nights, Friday Oct. 23 to Sunday, Oct. 25at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. For info on tickets, click here.
That’s right, Comedy Central still broadcasts live comedy. I wonder if MTV is jealous.
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It’s Friday, folks, which means it’s time for us to let you in on who will be guesting on Marc Maron’s podcast 
Remember a few weeks ago when 
Daily Show fans rejoice; you’re about to see even more of John Oliver. The affable British comedian will be hosting a series of stand-up comedy shows to be aired on Comedy Central later this year in a series called John Oliver and Friends. 
