Sometimes people judge people by the colour of their skin, sometimes people make fun of people because of their race. That ain’t right! But no matter who you are and no matter what colour your skin is, you’ll always avoid the guy with the d**k on his face. And that’s totally OK.
The rest of this week’s comedy videos, including the proper mechanics of power walking, Barry who likes bars, detectives who always just wake up and more, can be found over at Splitsider.
Other highlights from the week in comedy:
- Amy Poehler and Tina Fey did real good at the Golden Globes, even if Tommy Lee Jones didn’t enjoy himself.
- New comedy series Kroll Show, Newsreaders, and Legit all premiered.
- FX might split into two networks: FX for drama and FXX for comedy.
- Tenacious D will headline a musical comedy festival that Jack Black wants Flight of the Conchords, Lonely Island, Zach Galifianakis, Spinal Tap, Eric Idle, Tim Minchin, Neil Hamburger, Tim and Eric, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross and Trey Parker and Matt Stone to perform at, but it’ll probably just end up being him and Weird Al.
- We interviewed Comedy Central’s newest star Nick Kroll, FX’s latest leading man Jim Jefferies, Very Mary-Kate creator/star Elaine Carroll, and the guy who played Screech.
- Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s company Gary Sanchez is producing a late night talk show in the style of a morning show for USA
- The Onion released their own Joe Biden autobiography, so Joe Biden doesn’t have to write one anymore.
- We explored England’s comedy crisis.
- Comedy Central announced half-hour specials for Cristela Alonzo, Joe DeRosa, Nikki Glaser, Erik Griffin, Andy Haynes, Lil Rey Howery, Ben Kronberg, Mike Lawrence, Gabe Liedman, Jared Logan, Sean O’Connor, Sean Patton, Jonah Ray, Dan Soder, Dan St. Germain, Brody Stevens, and Baron Vaughn
- We looked at 5 failed attempts to turn popular live-action comedies into animated shows, the state of parody books, the comedy of musician Phil Elverum, the short-lived Fox series The Pitts, Danitra Vance’s year at SNL, and @lanyardtwerk’s Twitter feed.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone are starting their own production company, Important Studios.
- We recommended the week’s best podcasts.
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