paul scheer-related stories
Posted Oct 28th 2009 9:01AM by Jonathan Toomey
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Sports, OpEd, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Early Looks, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free
Fantasy football is a tricky thing. You either love it or you hate it and that largely depends on whether you're good or bad at it. For the most part, the same can be said about FX's newest comedy
The League. When it's good, it
is good, but when it's bad... well, you get the picture.
The show, which premieres tomorrow night, Thursday 10/29, at 10:30 p.m. after
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, is FX's first solid attempt to produce a lasting companion piece to
Sunny and, given some of its predecessors (like
Starved or
Testees), it'd be easy to write
The League off. But, like a two-minute drill that gradually picks up steam,
The League might actually go... all... the... way.
OK -- no more football metaphors.
Continue reading The League -- An early look
Posted Oct 23rd 2009 3:02AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: TCA Press Tour, Episode Reviews, Parks and Recreation
(S02E06) No more pit! I figured that the giant hole would eventually be filled in, but I had a feeling that it would take much longer than this. But after only 12 episodes of the entire series, Ann now sees a dirt lot when she looks out of the window of her home. Oh, progress.
Speaking of progress, I haven't been the biggest fan of Andy, but I enjoyed him in this episode. Before, when he turned up, it was mostly just to show how pathetic he is, but this week, in addition to that, he actually helped move the plot along in a big way. He gave up $100,000 for Ann, which honestly, seems like a terrible idea to me. I understand that he's in love with her and all, but there's no guarantee that she's going to get back with him, and a hundred grand is a hundred grand, you know?
Continue reading Review: Parks and Recreation - Kaboom
Posted Aug 21st 2009 2:02PM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Reality-Free
FX has announced a couple of interesting new additions to its slate of comedies -
The League, about a fantasy football league, and
Louie, an autobiographical sitcom starring Louis C.K. (
Variety broke the news Wednesday).
The League features some talented comedians, namely Paul Scheer (from
Human Giant), Nick Kroll, and Jon Lajoie. But it's
Louie that I'm most interested in.
Louis C.K. is, hands down, the funniest and most productive comedian working in America today. He has taped his third stand-up special in three years, called
Hilarious, which is set to come out later this year or early next year. I've seen him perform the material for it, and it's just as funny as the first two. And he's already dropped most of that material in favor of a new hour of material intended for another special. That's a tremendous pace for any stand-up comedian. George Carlin, the guy who inspired C.K. to do this, is the only other comic I can think of to keep to a schedule like that.
Continue reading New FX comedies include Louie from Louis C.K.
Posted Dec 17th 2008 3:05PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: The Daily Show, Stargate, Web, Celebrities, Heroes, Star Trek: The Next Generation, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
Yep, I got a
Twitter. It's part of my plan to plaster the Internet with links to my must-read blog posts about
'90s indie rock and that handsome bastard Neil Patrick Harris (don't ask). Fortunately for you, some clever TV stars also use Twitter for fun and shameless self-promotion.
Here are ten fan-friendly TV celebs worth stalking on Twitter. Unlike that
fake Stephen Colbert, these guys are all one-hundred percent, real-life paparazzo magnets.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: TV celebs worth following on Twitter
Posted Mar 10th 2008 11:02AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, TV on DVD, Interviews
Considering that MTV seems to cater to nothing but teenagers, how did two thirtysomethings and a very mature 25 year-old end up making one of the network's most popular shows?
By being funny. Damn funny, in fact.
Rob Huebel, Aziz Ansari, and Paul Scheer (l-r), otherwise known as
Human Giant, are entering
their second season on the cable network, starting tomorrow night at 11 PM ET. I spoke to the guys by telephone last week as they were doing a round of promotion for their second season, as well as
the DVD of the first season, which was released on March 4.
Tidbits from the interview, and audio clips, are after the jump.
Continue reading Human Giant: The TV Squad Interview - AUDIO
Posted Aug 8th 2007 1:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
We knew it was coming back, we just didn't know when. Well, we still don't know officially, but Paul Scheer, one-third of the sketch comedy trio Human Giant along with Aziz Ansari and Rob Huebel, blogged yesterday that the series would likely return in January 2008. Paul's exact words were: "we are looking towards an air date of Jan 2008," which is not the same as "you will definitely see new episodes in January," but I'm not going to complain. It's coming back, that's all that matters.
Continue reading Human Giant returns in January (probably)
Posted May 22nd 2007 8:02AM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Pickups and Renewals
It shouldn't come as too much of a surprise to anyone that Human Giant, the new sketch comedy series for MTV, has been granted a second season.
In order to drum up more interest in the show, MTV turned the network over to the Human Giant men: Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel, Paul Scheer for 24 hours and told them they had to garner one million hits on their Web site if they wanted a second season. Of course, taking into consideration lines from the press release like, "fans can also show up in Times Square to deliver a pizza counting for 80 hits, or carving Paul Scheer's face into Mount Rushmore for the entire million hits" it's obvious the series was going to be renewed all along. Still, it's nice to hear an official announcement.
Continue reading Human Giant gets a second season
Posted Apr 15th 2007 12:02PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Web
Welcome to TV Squad Lists (formerly 'The Five'), a feature where each blogger has a chance to list his or her own rundown of things in television that stand out from the rest, both good and bad.It seems like we're experiencing a renaissance of decent sketch comedy programming or maybe we're just reaching an Upright Citizens Brigade alumni saturation point in popular media. (Seriously, move over Second City, and
SNL, your days are numbered.) It could be the internet's doing - between the amateurs on YouTube, Super Deluxe and VBS, there's no shortage of comedy gold out there in accessible, bite-sized nuggets. Rather than try to pin down how and why our airwaves are awash in sketch-length comedy goodness, I'd like to draw your attention to MTV's most recent offering -
Human Giant.
Continue reading Ten easy steps to sketch comedy greatness
Posted Oct 5th 2006 12:04PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, MTV, Pickups and Renewals
I think MTV is going after the YouTube generation with its latest programming decisions. Earlier this week, the network announced it had picked up eight episodes of a sketch comedy show called
Nick Cannon: Short Circuitz. Now, it has also picked up a sketch/short film comedy series by internet viral video creators,
Human Giant. The comedy group produces short films that MTV describes as "recklessly hilarious". Some of the group's most popular clips include
Shutterbugs and
The Illusionators. The comedy troupe also has a big following in New York where they do live shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade theatre. I checked out the videos and I recognize one of the cast members, Rob Huebel, as the Inconsiderate Cell Phone Guy shown before movies who says, "It's pronounced kah-rah-tay." The first eight episodes are scheduled to air in early 2007.
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