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<p>Thursday Sep 16 2010  2010 Friars Club Comedy Film Festival Lineup</p>
<p>Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 4:59PM  The lineup for the second annual Friars Club Comedy Film Festival in New York was announced this week. It's the nation's only comedy film fest and will run September 23rd through October 1st, opening with a screening at the legendary Ziegfeld theater and closing with the Friars Club Roast of Quentin Tarantino. I went to last year's opening of A Serious Man, those were some star studded good times, man.</p>
<p>The schedule this time around is highlighted by the world premiere of Brother's Justice from Dax Shepard and David Palmer, the documentary American: The Bill Hicks Story, the winner of the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival for Best New British Feature Skeletons, the film Tiny Furniture--which won a prize at SXSW and was part of Rooftop Films' recent summer programming--a bunch of other movies, shorts including those made by the winners of the FRISC competition, panels and more.</p>
<p>For the schedule, festival passes ($99) and individual ticket information, visit www.friarsclub.com/filmfestival.</p>
<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment tagged FCCFF 2010 , Friars Club Comedy Film Festival in TV/Film , Upcoming Wednesday Sep 01 2010  Conan O'Brien's TBS Show Gets a Name</p>
<p>Wednesday, September 1, 2010 at 11:50AM The Apiary | Post a Comment tagged Conan , Conaw , TBS in TV/Film Thursday Aug 26 2010  Is Taran Killam Headed to SNL?</p>
<p>Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 1:45PM With the shocking news out today that Will Forte has left the cast of SNL, it begs the question: WHO'S JOINING SNL? I've been sleuthing out a rumor that someone from The Groundlings got cast as a featured player. And one name that's floated past The Apiary's news desk is Taran Killam. Taran currently mans a marquee spot in The Groundlings' Sunday Company, he's done recent stints on Scrubs and How I Met Your Mother and he's also got a season of MAD-TV under his belt. Granted, Taran might not have been hired at all and this could be a wild rumor on the bridge to nowhere, but let's indulge this for a moment. I imagine we'll find out for sure soon enough. Here are some videos featuring Taran: The Apiary | 5 Comments | 16 References tagged SNL , Taran Killam in TV/Film Friday Aug 20 2010  Delocated Returns with New Characters, Same Ski Masks</p>
<p>Friday, August 20, 2010 at 6:48PM By: Nat Towsen</p>
<p>America's favorite anonymous reality-TV star returns to the digital airwaves this weekend as Delocated begins its second season on Adult Swim. The stakes are raised this time around--Sergei Mirminsky (Steve Cirbus) to take over the job of killing Jon (Jon Glaser), leaving his brother Yvgeny (Eugene Mirman) to pursue his vodka-centric standup career. Meanwhile, Jon struggles to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend (Zoe Lister-Jones), aided only by the emotional terror of his situation.</p>
<p>The season premiere, airing this Sunday on Adult Swim at 10PM EST/PST, sees the always-hilarious Jerry Minor join the cast as network executive Mighty Joe Jon, The Black Blond. With characters dropping like flies that stepped afoul of the mafia, one hopes that Minor makes it through the season. The episode also features plenty of Jon Glaser's beautiful shamelessness and a stellar cameo by Todd Barry as "himself."</p>
<p>Episode two prominently features Jon Glaser's dick. It is, of course, censored. Not out of shame, but out of a desire to preserve the reality-TV aesthetic. These guys are pros.</p>
<p>The Apiary | 1 Comment | 3 References tagged Adult Swim , Delocated , Jon Glaser in TV/Film , Upcoming Wednesday Jul 28 2010  Kristen Schaal on Letterman</p>
<p>Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 9:28AM</p>
<p>This video won't likely stay up very long, so catch it while you can. Said Kurt Braunohler, who was waiting in the Late Show green room: "She nailed it. With a capital nail." In the meantime, check out Kristen's new book, "Sexy Book of Sexy Sex." We heard if you open it up and hold it against your chest, you see boobs!</p>
<p>keithhuang | Post a Comment tagged KKristen Schaal , Letterman in TV/Film Tuesday Jul 20 2010  The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien Gets Axed Again and Again</p>
<p>Tuesday, July 20, 2010 at 12:08PM It's sounding like the writing staff of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien won't be having its DAY OF REFUDIATION on TV at the Emmys next month. After learning some unsettling and mysterious news, Team Coco's Deon Cole vented his frustrations on Twitter last night:</p>
<p>> @deoncole: UNBELIEVABLE! NBC has did it to us again!!! details soon. wow! stay tune.</p>
<p>What'd NBC do?? Deon quickly deleted the tweet and covered his butt:</p>
<p>> @deoncole: SORRY! "not NBC" but someone with power has kicked us in the nuts again! the more i know the more u will. stay tune. wow, unbelievable!</p>
<p>Tell me tell me! And then he added some follow up details:</p>
<p>> @deoncole: NOT "NBC" but the powers that be has sent us an email saying that the category we are nominated for will not be televised this year! really?</p>
<p>> @deoncole: i hear that there will b a meeting about it. stay tune to find out what happens, until then i'm going 2 drink, alot! my first nom. shit!</p>
<p>What's going down? Will the super shady nut kicking powers that be have the last laugh? Will Team Coco come out on top? It's not clear whether he's talking about the nomination for "BEST WRITING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC OR COMEDY SERIES" or "BEST VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES." Whatever the case, it's too bad they're not up for the award for "BEST DRAMA FOR THE BEST WRITING FOR A VARIETY, MUSIC, OR COMEDY SERIES."</p>
<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment tagged Emmys , Team Coco , deon cole in TV/Film Monday Jul 12 2010  Jon Benjamin Has an Upcoming Series (and a Van)</p>
<p>Monday, July 12, 2010 at 2:35PM  H. Jon Benjamin's new sketch series, Jon Benjamin Has a Van, has been greenlighted and--cross your fingers America--it sounds like it just might be the perfect vehicle for Jon's bit about all the XXX dick-pics he finds on Craigslist. Details on the show:</p>
<p>> NEW YORK, July 12, 2010 -- First he had a van, now Jon Benjamin has a show. CENTRAL has picked-up "Jon Benjamin Has a Van," and placed a 10-episode series order for the sketch comedy series, it was announced today by Kent Alterman, head of original programming and production, COMEDY CENTRAL. The new series is slated to begin production in the fall and is scheduled to premiere in summer 2011.</p>
<p>Executive produced by Jon Benjamin, Andrew Steele and Funny or Die, and produced by Absolutely Productions, "Jon Benjamin Has a Van" stars the recently Emmy®-nominated Benjamin ("Archer," "Important Things with Demetri Martin”) as an investigative reporter who hits the streets and puts his unique twist on the traditional human interest story in this newsmagazine-style sketch show. Whether going undercover, being the man-on-the-street or participating in reenactments, Benjamin will do whatever it takes to get the stories to the people. His custom van will ensure that he delivers it in style. [PRESS RELEASE]</p>
<p>The Apiary | Post a Comment tagged Jon Benjamin in TV/Film Monday Jun 14 2010  JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK NYC PREMIERE @ IFC CENTER - 6.12.10</p>
<p>Monday, June 14, 2010 at 9:59AM  Director Ricki Stern and Joan Rivers at The SF International Film Festival | Photo: Steve Rhodes</p>
<p>NOTES</p>
<p>- Like you, I'd heard plenty of "good things" about this movie, so I'm pleased to say it supports the hype. At 84 minutes, the movie is concise and very fat-free. Joan never gets the "Mother Theresa" treatment from the filmmakers, nor does the movie spend too much time featuring talking heads.</p>
<p>- Joan's apartment is accurately described as a "mini-Versailles."</p>
<p>- Here's how director/writer Ricki Stern described the movie: "It's about an aging woman who is a consummate performer, who works harder than anybody. It's a portrait of a performer who lives her life for the audience and for what she gets out of it, and the journey that she takes. The narrative part of it whether she won Celebrity Apprentice or did her play obviously changed in the verite shooting. But the theme and the story, we knew right away going into it what it was going to be."</p>
<p>- Following Saturday night's screening at IFC Center, co-directors Stern and Annie Sundberg held a Q&A with the sold-out audience.</p>
<p>What was Joan's reaction to the movie when you first screened it for her?</p>
<p>Ricki Stern: I showed her the DVD at her apartment. It was Joan and me. She has this little TV, which I thought was funny because she doesn't have a bigscreen, 2010-style. ... She liked it in the beginning, she had very few minor notes. And then pages and pages of emails started coming. And they were things that we couldn't even address, like, "Joan thinks it's very negative. Joan thinks it's boring. Note #14 - Joan is always in the makeup chair. Note #16 - More dogs -- everyone likes dogs." ... I think in retrospect, of course, it was because she's a perfectionist and so self-critical, it makse sense. At some point we said: "It's fine. It's going to be okay," and she finally lived with it.</p>
<p>Cinematographer Charles Miller and producer Seth Keal at the Sundance screening Is there a shy side to Joan as Melissa aludes to (in the film)?</p>
<p>Ricki Stern: We had such a rapport with her she could be her funny, normal self. ... Her normal, funny kind of quirky, witty self is when she's in the taxis or when she's arriving someplace. She has this intense energy that is "99.9% on." But she's constantly revved up and happy to see you and wanting to talk to you. But she's shy when she gets into an industry setting.</p>
<p>Has she worked the movie into her routine yet?</p>
<p>Ricki Stern: I don't think so. I think she's very fearful in some ways of the movie. ... I think it's quite painful for her to sit through. She watched it at Sundance and Tribeca. So she's watched it a couple of times with an audience, but it's very hard for her. I think it's almost too close to her in some weird way -- even though she worked Edgar's suicide into her bits the week after. I think because [the movie] is about her, she's still processing it. I don't know. It's a good question. We'll ask her about it.</p>
<p>--"Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work" is currently playing at IFC Center in New York.</p>
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