Comedy Central exits Germany

The media firm's MTV Networks Germany unit is shutting down a local version of Comedy Central just two years after its launch. Comedy Central Germany will be folded together with kids channel NICK, starting next year.

Hit Nickelodeon shows including "Dora the Explorer" and "SpongeBob SquarePants" will be shown during the day, with more mature programing including "Futurama" and "Dharma and Greg" as well as Comedy Central's own "The Daily Show" and "South Park" filling up the evening slots.

Comedy Central has been struggling in Germany since its much-ballyhooed debut in 2006. Instead of branding itself as cutting edge, the German channel aired reruns of decidedly mainstream sitcoms like "The Golden Girls."

The channel also killed the jokes, in the opinion of many local TV critics, by dubbing such cult shows "Seinfeld" as "The Sarah Silverman Program" into German.

Jerry Lewis on retirement

These days, the King of Comedy is graying at the temples and sometimes a little wobbly on his feet. But don't ask him about retirement.

"A break? No, why? You got something better to do?" Jerry Lewis told a reporter Friday who asked if the 82-year-old entertainer was contemplating leaving the stage after more than 50 years of performing. "Show me somewhere better than this and I'll consider it."

Lewis was fronting a news conference in Sydney to promote his latest stage show, a retrospective of his career that includes show tunes with a 24-piece band, excerpts from his scores of movies and television shows, and his trademark slapstick comedy.

As he walked onto a small stage at a luxury hotel for Friday's news conference, Lewis lost his balance on the stairs and ended up stumbling slightly toward a reporter on the floor. Without missing a beat, and true to ad-libbing form, Lewis grabbed the reporter's hand and started pumping it, saying, "How do you do?"

"Don't you understand that when you croak, it's for a ve-e-e-e-ry long time," Lewis said later when asked about retirement. "So you want to get in as much activity as you can before you go."

Another topic the entertainer doesn't give much time to? The U.S. presidential election.

"Everybody talks about politicians — I don't do it because I do comedy already," he said, declining to comment on either Barack Obama or John McCain. "There's nothing fun about it."

Comedy Guru's Demise is a Tragedy - Entertainment - redOrbit

"THE death of Geoffrey Perkins has left a huge gap in the world of British television. He was one of the greatest comedy producers of the last 20 years and his death on Friday in a road accident, at the age of just 55, is a blow that will be felt right across my industry.

Geoffrey was the original producer of Father Ted. Later, as head of comedy for the BBC, he was responsible for countless hits such as The Fast Show, Catherine Tate, My Family, Coupling and 2 Pints of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps.

Before that he worked in radio, where he produced The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

ESCAPED CONVICT

ESCAPED CONVICT... A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years.

He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed.

He orders the guy out of the bed and ties him to a chair while tying the girl to the bed, he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom.

While he's in there, the husband whispers to his wife, 'Listen, this guy's an escaped convict – look at his clothes! He probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years.

I saw how he kissed your neck.

If he wants sex, don't resist, don't complain, do whatever he tells you.

Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you.

This guy is probably very dangerous... If he gets angry, he'll kill us.

Be strong, honey. I love you.

To which the wife responds, 'He wasn't kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear.

He told me he was gay, thinks you're cute, and asked if we had any Vaseline.

I told him it was in the bathroom.

Be strong, honey. I love you, too.

International Shortlist In Fringe Comedy Awards (from The Herald )

Read More Here: "A variety of international comics have made the shortlist for this year's comedy awards at the Fringe.

Irish comic David O'Doherty was listed for his 'effortless charm with song', Americans Kristen and Kurt were praised for their 'unique, quirky double-act', Double Down Hearts, and Welshman Rhod Gilbert impressed with a 'perfectly structured, gag-packed show'.

The fourth comedian on the shortlist was English stand-up Russell Kane whose show judges declared to be a 'brilliantly energetic celebration of family, relationships and life's imperfections'."

About our courses - Amused Moose stand up comedy

Read More Here: "Stand Up And Deliver's Absolute & Almost Beginners comedy courses in LONDON are usually on 12 weekday evenings, or 8 afternoons on Saturdays or Sundays.
Occasionally these are delivered in 'Intensive/Compact' format over four weekends which are popular with people who live a long way from London, as well as those who can't commit to attending for two or three months, or are want to complete a quality course in record-breaking time!

In August 2008 there will be ACME Comedy Writing Course, during the Edinburgh Fringe"

Thousands attend service to celebrate life of Bernie Mac

Read More Here: "“He’s still the hottest ticket in town,” fellow ‘King,’ Cedric the Entertainer, told a legion of fans, friends and relatives of Bernard Jeffery McCullough–Bernie Mac–Saturday during a public memorial service at a South Side church for the sharp-witted comedian.

Bernie Mac succumbed to complications of pneumonia Aug. 9."