Aziz Ansari’s Great Ideas for TV Shows

Comedy superstar Aziz Ansari got Q&A;’d in a Vulture blog post today. He’s pulling his share of the PR weight for “Funny People,” and if you haven’t caught any of his and Jason Woliner’s RAAAAAAAANDY! videos, well, then you probably haven’t been on the Internet lately. But when New York Magazine’s Lane Brown brought up […]

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Inside With: Steven Wright

Fans have long awaited Steven Wright’s new DVD When the Leaves Blow Away, a taping of his first comedy special in 15 years. The DVD, which recently came out, also includes his 1999 short film One Soldier, which he wrote and directed, and a 1988 clip from a Boston comedy club show early in his […]

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INSIDE WITH: JORDAN VOGT-ROBERTS

On a chilly April evening in Chicago, the Bastion got a chance to formally chit-chat with filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts, in between his dates on the coast and right before the DC Comedy Fest this coming weekend (where he’ll be chairing the Short Comedy Film portion of the festival). Embodying a famed lyric by one of […]

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T.J. MILLER CAST IN ‘YOGI BEAR’

Word came down last Thursday and was sealed yesterday that T.J. Miller has been offered the role of Ranger Jones in the live-action/animated Yogi Bear movie. Miller will co-star with Anna Faris, Justin Timberlake, and Dan Aykroyd, who will voice Yogi the Bear. The movie will be directed by Eric Brevig (“Journey to the Center […]

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INSIDE WITH: LONNY ROSS – BY: KEITH HUANG

By his own admission, actor Lonny Ross says his alter ego, Josh Girard of NBC’s 30 Rock, is not so different from himself: “We are both dudes who do weird voices, make funny faces and enjoy wearing hoodies.” But stripped to their cores, Lonny and Josh are simply two young actors-slash-writers who appear on a […]

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INSIDE WITH: JUDAH FRIEDLANDER

The bio says: “My name is Judah Friedlander. Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am a comedian. I am also the World Champion.” That’s pretty much all the average person needs to know. However, we’re above average people here, we wanted to find out what else is going on with the […]

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IS TARAN KILLAM HEADED TO SNL?

With the shocking news out today that Will Forte has left the cast of SNL, it begs the question: WHO’S JOINING SNL? I’ve been sleuthing out a rumor that someone from The Groundlings got cast as a featured player. And one name that’s floated past The Apiary’s news desk is Taran Killam. Taran currently mans […]

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