rob huebel-related stories
Posted Aug 27th 2009 3:01PM by Nick Zaino
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Reality-Free
Last night was the season finale of
Michael & Michael Have Issues on Comedy Central. Which means fans of the show can look forward either to its second season or its quiet death. With rare exceptions (like
Important Things with Demetri Martin), shows come and go on Comedy Central with little fanfare.
Mind of Mencia and
Lewis Black's Root of All Evil weren't renewed, but their cancellations were never really announced, just mentioned by the players on the shows themselves.
So here's your chance to weigh in. Did you like
MMHI? Were you one of the fans who attended the "blarties" and "twarties" (blog parties and twitter parties)? Did you pick up
The State on DVD and watch for nostalgia? What did you think of the sketch show within a show format?
Continue reading Did you watch Michael and Michael Have Issues?
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 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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