About a year after her participation in the groundbreaking Comedy Central documentary series the
Comedians of Comedy,
Maria Bamford was on stage at the Friars Club in LA when a heckler began shouting at her. What happened after that isn’t entirely clear, other than Bamford had a breakdown, walked off stage, and disappeared. She was found three months later selling clock radios on the sidewalks of Detroit. A fellow homeless person, who was also a Comedy Central fan, recognized Bamford and eventually her parents were contacted. They brought her back home to Deluth, Minnesota and began to get her help. Maria decided to document her recovery in a series of short videos called
The Maria Bamford Show, which were first posted to the TBS networks' now abandoned
Super Deluxe Web site.
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posted by Toekneesan
on Jan 26, 2013 -
100 comments
"
The TV Wheel was a television experiment created by and starring
Joel Hodgson, of
Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame. Cable network HBO ordered a pilot, but ultimately passed on picking up the show. The pilot episode eventually aired once on Comedy Central as a special presentation following the last new episode of MST3K to be broadcast on that network."
*
The pilot, bookended by introduction segments, is right through this door:
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posted by item
on Aug 11, 2010 -
41 comments
Dennis Wolfberg was one of the most distinctive voices (literally) from the stand-up comedy boom of the early 90s. A former schoolteacher, he became a fixture on the fledgling network Comedy Central roughly fifteen years BCM (Before Carlos Mencia). His vocal style and inflections had a way of selling the most outlandish comparisons. He was a guest on both Letterman and Carson, and had guest-starred as Gooshie on
Quantum Leap on multiple occasions until he tragically died from cancer in 1994. Some of his most memorable routines were his
experience with Fiber One cereal and encounter with a sigmoidoscope,,
his wife's pregnancy and
his twins' Bris. His HBO special is available in its entirety on YouTube:
part 1 -
part 2 -
part 3 (most of part 3 linked above).
posted by JHarris
on Aug 8, 2009 -
26 comments
Do you love
South Park but you wish you could watch all the episodes on your own time? Uncensored? Without waiting for (or paying for) the DVDs? If so,
South Park Studios just answered your prayers.
Since
the Daily Show recently did the same thing - is Comedy Central making big waves, or big mistakes?
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posted by revmitcz
on Mar 24, 2008 -
47 comments
Three Strikes is a TV pilot from the writers of
Frasier, Larry Sanders and
King of the Hill and executive produced by Jon Stewart for Comedy Central. It was turned down by the network but like
Nobody's Watching the makers have turned to YouTube to revive its chances [Parts
1,
2,
3].
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posted by meech
on Mar 27, 2007 -
24 comments
The bad news? Politically Incorrect is dead. The good news? So is
The Man Show. The bad news? Jimmy Kimmel's getting his own late-night talk show.
posted by darukaru
on May 14, 2002 -
68 comments
God bless Jon Stewart and The Daily Show, back for their first show after the attack. It's not completely new, but God knows I needed to see it. New York may be OK after all. (Comedy Central will repeat the show several times before Monday, so don't despair if you thought it would be a rerun and missed it.)
posted by mdeatherage
on Sep 20, 2001 -
24 comments
Sour Family Hour? This report from the conservative
Parents Television Council made the top of the front page in our local paper this morning. If you visit the PTC home page, you'll get a pop-up calling for action against Comedy Central and "South Park" because they recently went over the top by not censoring the word "shit" and compounding the sin by using a counter in the corner to note how many times it was said. (Anybody catch that episode?)
posted by jdbanks
on Aug 2, 2001 -
16 comments
That's My Bush! - Premiers tonight on Comedy Central. From Matt and Trey, the creators of South Park. This is either gonna be really great or reeeeeaaaallllyyy bad.
posted by radio_mookie
on Apr 4, 2001 -
23 comments
