Although John Mulaney‘s latest Comedy Central stand-up special claims he’s “New In Town,” he’s long been a regular in our little comedy hearts.

Here he is, wayyyy back in the hallowed year of 2008, pretending to be from the wayyyy-back ’40s, talking about the even wayyyy-more-back time, the ’30s.

Don’t forget us when you blow up, John. We loved you when.

Tune in for the world premiere of John Mulaney‘s “New In Town,” Saturday, January 28 at 10:00/9c:

Louis C.K. did an interview with Punchline Magazine as promotion for his new show on FX, Louie, which premieres tonight. Louis talks comedy, Ricky Gervais, and how uniquely creator driven his new show is. It’s a great read, and has me really, really stoked for the new show. Stay tuned tonight at 11 on FX after new episodes of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (now on Comedy Central too!), for what I’m sure is going to be a treat.

Hit the jump for a clip of the show!

Backstage at the Axe Twisted humor tour, Andrew and I  sat down with Nick Kroll and Donald Glover to talk internet videos and bank statements. Besides being seasoned stand-ups, both of these guys have impressive lists of videos across the web, and we knew they’d have some great advice for you up-and-comers. They dropped some wisdom that night, and we captured it on video just for you!

Besides being aweseome filmmakers, they’re both amazing stand ups (um, of course). They’re touring alongside the equally talented Chelsea Peretti and Whitney Cummings. Be sure to check them out in a town near you.

4/9/10: Penn State
Alumni Hall @ HUB-Robeson Center

4/14/10: Wake Forest
Pugh Auditorium

4/17/10: UC Santa Barbara
Isla Vista Theater
Doors: 7:30pm
Show time: 8:00pm

4/22/10: Florida State University
Club Downunder

4/28/10: Indiana University @ Bloomington
Whittenberger Auditorium @ Indiana Memorial Union
Show time: 9:00pm

4/29/10: Ohio State University
Union Ballroom

For more videos and up to date tour info, check out the official site of the AXE Twist Presents Twisted Humor Tour.

We got to go to a big stand-up show last week here in Los Angeles, for the opening leg of the Axe Twist Presents Twisted Humor Tour Brought To You By Funny Or Die. Ok, so kind of a long name. Fine. But we understand, this is America in the 21st Century, sometimes you need just that many people to pull together an insane lineup of Nick Kroll, Whitney Cummings, Donald Glover and Chelsea Peretti. It’s kind of like if they made a Harlem Globetrotters for stand-up comedy, but basketball was only played with 4 people. Oh, and if the team was mostly white.

We’ll have interviews with each of the comics coming soon, but for now, check out this video they made for the tour and some pictures from the show!

A couple weeks ago, comedian Jay Larson, of Walleye Pictures & Sound, went to Miami Florida to perform in the Comedy Central’s South Beach Comedy Festival with some amazingly funny comedians. This is his report.

I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in Comedy Central’s South Beach Comedy Festival and I had a blast!!! I hopped on a plane Thursday morning in Los Angeles and after 6 hours of sleep arrived in Miami to 78 degree weather and a city ready to laugh! This year there were 4 venues for the festival, all within walking distance. After hopping a shuttle with my girl Natasha Leggero I checked in to my hotel and took a nap, “Don’t judge me, I had a long weekend ahead!”

After I woke up clear headed and refreshed I headed out to dinner with some of the other comedians. My show wasn’t until 9:00 that night but Mike Birbiglia was playing at 8:00 at the Lincoln Theater, a beautiful theater right in the heart of the festival. I popped into the balcony with my all access pass and watched Mike do his thing. If you haven’t seen or heard him, pick up an album, you’ll be hooked. I couldn’t stay long because I had a show at The Lincoln Road stage. This is an out door stage in the center of Lincoln road. Lincoln road is full of shops, restaurants and cool peeps! The show consisted of Owen Benjamin (House Bunny, CCP), Natasha Leggero (Chelsea Lately), Joe Mande (Live at Gotham), Pete Holmes (Doctor, Hotel), and Me (Late Late Show) Each show opened with a 10 minute video of some ATOM.COM highlights and then featured US! Needless to say the show was dope. Here are some pics.

From left to right, Natasha playing scared, Owen dealing with the heat and bringing it, and of course our beloved stage!

After show one on Thursday it was off to Lucky Strike for a Bacardi sponsored night of bowling, where I dominated. Gabriel Iglesias showed up after his show and bowled a couple while Birbiglia and others settled in to the VIP lounge and relaxed in the cool AC. Day 1 done, Boom!

Every day there were plenty of activities. After grabbing a bite with Joe and Pete we changed and headed over to Lincoln road for some interviews. We rapped for a bit with Michelle Buteau. She is dope, she did Premium Blend a while back and is out there crushing all the time. After that I took a quick dip in the pool, grabbed some dinner and headed to dinner. We decided to treat ourselves to a nice dinner at Nobu, no big deal. I mean, I’m not bragging but we did see Will Smith lounging. And no I didn’t take a pic! Luckily that dinner was on the festival and I bounced early to see my good friend Tom Segura (Live at Gotham) open for Joe Rogan at The Lincoln theater. Tom was dope as always and I got the first 15 minutes of Rogan’s set. Of course he rocked. I had never met him till before the show and I gotta say, “That guy is a class act!” And he’s as funny as he is classy! Got my laugh on and then hit our show at 9:00.

Friday’s show was great. We mix up the order every night and Michelle stopped in to do a set which crushed! After we said some hellos to the audience we headed over to the roof deck at the Gansevoort for a Festival party sponsored by Grey Goose! I grabbed a cocktail, chatted with Tom and Rogan and then took my turn doing 1 on 1 interviews with Kevin Hart (CCP, Fools Gold, and everything else) They had Kevin set up in a Cabana doing interstitials for Comedy Central. Kevin had shows all weekend which he totally sold out and crushed and then doubled up with interviews. And what a sweetheart that guy is! I literally tried to hug him, he was so nice. The interview was 3 minutes and then I got right back to mingling. John Oliver was at the party with the rest of his Daily Show friends and I met up briefly with Rob Riggle (Daily Show) who isn’t just funny, he’s a softy. He looks like he could kick your ass but he’s just a big Teddy bear. I may have had one too many Grey Gooses because I left at 3 AM and had two slices of pizza by myself, so sad.

From left to right, Joe, me and Pete taking in Miami. Joe catching up on reading before his interview. Michelle and me, and Kevin Hart and Me. Good times.

Finally Saturday was here and after sleeping in the 5 of us Lincoln Road Comics were off to brunch at The Standard for a round table discussion that was taped for Comcast. We sat round eating high priced food and rapped about comedy and the festival. As always everyone was funny and we made fun of each other. We had a blast. By this point in the weekend we were all kind of spent and we all went our own ways for the day and decided to meet up to watch Brian Regan at 7:00. If you don’t know Brian Regan, then you don’t know comedy. GO CHECK HIM OUT!!! We arrived back stage at The Fillmore, a 2400 seat theater right down the street from Lincoln stage. Kevin Hart was there to peep the show, we all said “What up?” and hit the show. Brian works completely clean and absolutely crushed for an hour straight. Brian is from Miami and has never performed there so it was a pretty special night. We left the show on a high and headed over to our show at Lincoln Road. It had rained all day but the crowd was still there ready to roll and so were we.

The show started at 9:00. It was our last show, we had a bottle of Grey Goose back stage, which Pete may or may not have taken from the night before and Dan levy stopped by to hop on the show. Dan (CCP, Atom.com, and a bunch of other stuff) was opening for Aziz Ansari (Parks and Rec, Human Giant, new Album) For the record, the vodka was for after the show. Dan is a great comic and he had time in between his shows with Aziz and did a great job, they loved him. I had the pleasure of hosting the last show. So while we were closing down our part of the festival, Brian Reagan was on stage somewhere, Aziz was somewhere else and John Oliver and The Daily show crew was somewhere else!!! This festival is easily the best fest in the US. I have been to Montreal, Vancouver and Boston for all those festivals. But nothing compares to this party! Get off your butt and get to next years!!!

Thanks Jay! Make sure to check out all of Jay’s films here and here!

You guys like iFreak, right? If there’s one thing I love, it’s boner jokes mixed with popular technology references. Well the guy who made iFreak (Bryan Tucker) is a captain of the comedy industry! Here’s a picture of him.

Yep, that’s a sign that says “shitstorm!”. If that isn’t reason enough to love him…