Posts with tag Las Vegas Comedy Festival
Posted Nov 17th 2006 6:30PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, NBC, HBO, Celebrities
Late Night with Conan O'Brien's resident funny dog Triumph was
inducted into the Las Vegas Police Department's K-9 Unit at this week's Las Vegas Comedy Festival. The cigar-chomping insult comedian accepted the honor with gratitude, "This is really an honor for me because my brother was a bomb-sniffing dog. In fact, that's how he was able to find Ben Affleck's last three movies." Fortunately, Triumph refrained from sniffing any of his K-9 colleagues' butts and, as of yet, has not pooped on any unsuspecting officers.
The
week-long comedy festival was sponsored by HBO and AEG. Most of the performances were taped for later broadcast on TBS including the Jim Henson Company's improv performance
Puppet Up! and
Comic Relief 2006. The festival also played host to
Dave Chappelle's latest no-show.
Posted Nov 13th 2006 8:32AM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Late Night, Industry, Web, Pickups and Renewals
A few months ago,
we
brought you news of the Jim Henson Company's
late night television project and partnership with TBS.
More news has come to light regarding this and two other projects in development over at Henson headquarters in Hollywood.
On November 20th, TBS will be airing a taped performance of the Henson gang performing improvised, uncensored comedy at the Las Vegas Comedy Festival. This isn't the warm and wacky Muppet comedy of yore.
Puppet Up! Uncensored! is blue comedy developed by a whole new team of writers and performers looking to bring a fresh voice and renewed primetime supremacy to the Henson name. In addition to the improv performance, TBS has ordered up 30 episodes of
Uncensored for its forthcoming broadband channel and remains in negotiations over the semi-improvised late night talk show project.
Continue reading Henson company aims for puppet primetime
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