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Ugly Americans - The Comedy Network starts 03-21-10

If you don’t like weird, why did you come to New York? is a question the main character in Ugly Americans asks early on in the Ugly Americans pilot. This very weird, different, and original cartoon will start airing on The Comedy Network Sunday March 21st 2010 at 9:30 P.M. ...

Jokes to Make My Parents Proud

The title is supposed to be ironic but Jokes To Make My Parents Proud should make stand-up comic Shane Mauss ‘s parents proud. If like me you appreciate dark comedy with a caustic touch, this stand-up comedy CD is sure to please. Mauss is a smart and very funny comic.

Shane ...

Believe - The Eddie Izzard Story

Believe – The Eddie Izzard Story suggests an important story or a Hollywood-style biopic. The jacket reads “a story of triumph over adversity” and “a provoking and inspiring tale of how tragedy can be turned into laughter. Do not Believe a word of it. This Eddie Izzard DVD is a ...

Plan B

Plan B is a one-woman performance art show more than a stand-up comedy DVD. Maria Bamford does comedy here but the whole is very different from your usual story set-up for punchline routine. Plan B features Bamford’s many voices and characters and her usual disjointed stream of consciousness storytelling. The ...

Where The Cab Takes You

If just for the opening routine about being stoned and having the munchies, this Kristin Key CD is worth it. There is much more to Where the Cab Takes You than The Munchies and Soy Sauce Can’t Drive but this is one ...

This It It! (1967)

This It It! would turn out to be it for Bob Newhart and comedy albums. The Collector’s Choice reissue features the original cover and back cover artwork. This stand-up comedy CD also features an interesting insert tracking the Bob Newhart story and providing information as to the tracks themselves. This ...

Welcome To My World

Rocky Laporte is a very funny comedian. In a world overpopulated by hyperactive comics, Laporte’s laid-back and puzzled tone is a very welcome change. Welcome To My World is the major label re-release of Rocky Laporte’s independent stand-up comedy CD Who Knew? It is nice to see Laporte get wider ...

Tailgate Party - DVD Version

I have no idea why there was such a four-month between the releases of the Larry the Cable Guy CD and DVD versions of Tailgate Party. If you already have the CD, the stand-up comedy DVD version of this 2009 Nebraska show in front of 50,000 people is the same ...

Maneater

Maneater is an absolutely wretched 2-part Lifetime miniseries romcom. This romantic comedy DVD stars Sarah Chalke (Becky 2 in Roseanne) as a thirty-something woman who decides to get married to a combination sugardaddy and boytoy before her looks totally go. Love doesn’t enter the equation here and neither does any ...

Bob Newhart Faces Bob Newhart (1964)

Bob Newhart Faces Bob Newhart is the comic’s fifth of seven comedy albums released in the sixties. Collector’s Choice has made the last 4, The Button-Down Mind on TV (1962), Faces (1964), The Windmils Are Weakening (65), and This Is It! (67) available on CD. The packaging is a replica ...