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Six Degrees: Brain Freeze Edition.
G’day Zoners! I don’t know about you, but I am still stuck in a post Ben & Jerry’s brain freeze of joy. Only Stephen could make chocolate coated potato chips and salty caramel swirl sound tasty. But I digress. In this week’s Six Degrees round-up; “Earth (The Audio Book)” receives more award nominations, Kristen Schaal features in a new “The National’s” film clip, Jimmy Fallon appears at The Paley Center, Allison Silverman appears on “This American Life”, and Conan O’Brien, Jon Stewart and Lewis Black are to be featured in Comedy Central’s tribute to the late Greg Giraldo.
The Daily Show
The Daily Show
- “Earth (The AudioBook)” has been nominated for an Audie Award in the “Humour” Category.
John Oliver (Correspondant/Writer)
- The second season of “John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show” premiere’s on Thursday, March 24th.
- John talks to the Houtson Press about working on “The Daily Show”, and his stand up his career.
Kevin Bleyer (Writer)
- Kevin talks to The Sun Sentinel about working on “The Daily Show” and his upcoming book on how to fix the US Constitution.
Kristen Schaal (Contributor)
- Kristen and John Slattery star in Indie band “The National’s” new video “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on Monday, March 14th.
Paul Mecurio (Warm-Up Comedian)
- Paul was recently a guest on ”Mall of America House Comedy”.
Samantha Bee (Writer)
- Sam was recently a guest on “The Late Word with Lawrence O’Donell”.
Wyatt Cenac (Correspondant/Writer)
- Wyatt will host the “Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards” to be held on Thursday, March 10th at the Austin Studios, TX.
The Colbert Report
Allison Silverman (Former Exec-Producer and Head Writer)
- Allison reports on “This is Your Life” as apart of “This American Life”.
Jay Katsir (Writer) Rob Dubbin (Writer)
- Jay and Rob talk to “The Atlantic” about the new “Carmen Sandiego Facebook App”.
Friends of the Show
Conan O’Brien (Conan) and Jon Stewart (The Daily Show)
- Conan and Jon appeared via video to wish Kid Rock a Happy Forty F***ing Birthday at his Birthday Bash Concert in Detroit.
Conan O’Brien (Conan), Jon Stewart (The Daily Show) and Lewis Black (The Daily Show)
- Conan, Jon and Lewis will be a part of Comedy Central’s tribute to the late Greg Giraldo on Friday, March 18th at 11;30PM.
David Sedaris (Friend of the Show)
- “Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk” (audiobook) has been nominated for a Audie Award in the “Humour” Category.
Greg Hollimon (Strangers with Candy)
- Greg makes a cameo appearance in “Too Much Game”.
Jimmy Fallon (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Stephen’s 6 Month BFF)
- Jimmy appeared at The Paley Centre last night for “An Evening with Jimmy Fallon”. (h/t Karen)
Six Degrees: Nautical Edition.
G’day Zoners! I hope you’ve all had a good week, I’ve spent my final week of freedom before the new Uni year starts by relaxing and admiring Stephen’s new “Project Magazine” cover (so much less scary than the alternate version!!), and to help you all relax, I’ve got the latest round up of Six Degrees news. This week Jon Stewart, Lewis Black and John Legend add Grammy’s to their trophy cabinets, John Oliver has a special edition of his “New York Stand-Up Show”, Allison Silverman’s new series has been picked up for a second season, and Movits! and The Moutain Goats have a new albums on the way.
The Colbert Report
Allison Silverman (Former Head Writer & Executive Producer)
- IFC has picked up “Portlandia” for a second season.
Rev. James Martin (TCR Chaplin)
- “An Evening with Rev. James Martin, SJ” in which the Rev. discusses his book “The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life” will be held at Boston College on Friday, March 4th.
Jay Katsir (Writer) and Rob Dubbin (Writer)
- If you havn’t already checked it out, the “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego” Facebook App is now avialable.
Tim Meadows (P.K Winsome)
- Tim will be a guest on “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson” on Friday, March 3rd.
The Daily Show
The Daily Show
- Congratulations to the team from “The Daily Show” (and Sigourney Weaver) who recently won the Grammy for “Best Spoken Word Album”.
Jon Stewart (Host) and Lewis Black (Contributor)
- Jon and Lewis will be featured in a tribute honouring Greg Giraldo to be aired Comedy Central on Saturday, March 26 at 10PM.
Ed Helms (Former Correspondant)
- Ed was recently a guest on “Conan” to promote his new film “Cedar Rapids”.
John Oliver (Correspondant/Writer)
- John will be hosting a special edition of “John Oliver’s New York Stand-Up Show” at the “SXSW Comedy Festival” on Monday, March 14th at 8:00PM and 10:30PM in Austin, TX.
Josh Gad (Contributor)
- My Damn Channel has posted the trailer for Josh’s new comedy series “Gigi: Almost American”, which premieres on Wednesday, March 23rd.
Kristen Schaal (Contributor)
- Kristen will be performing at the 3rd Annual Women in Comedy Festival alongside Jen Kirkman, Morgan Murphey, and her sketch comedy partner Kurt Braunohler on Saturday, March 12th at 7:00PM and 9:30PM at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA.
Lewis Black (Contributor)
- Congratulations to Lewis, who’s comedy album “Stark Raving Black” recently won the Grammy for “Best Comedy Album”.
Lizz Winstead (Co-Creater of The Daily Show)
- Lizz will be hosting “Political Satire Writing Workshop” on Saturday, March 19th at 11:00AM and 4:00PM in Minneapolis, MN.
Samantha Bee (Correspondant)
- Parent Dish talks to Sam about working at “The Daily Show”, raising 3 children under 5 years old, and her strange childhood.
Wyatt Cenac (Correspondant/Writer)
- Wyatt will be performing at 92Y Tribeca on Thursday, March 3rd at 9:00PM. (h/t Karen)
Friends of the Show
John Legend (Singer)
- Congratulations to John and The Roots, who recently won the Grammy for “Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance”, “Best R&B Song”, and “Best R&B Album” all for there new album “Wake Up!”.
The Mountain Goats (Band)
- The Mountain Goats recently performed “Birth of Serpents” from their upcoming album “All Eternals Deck” (out March 29th), on “The Late Show with David Letterman”.
Movits! (Band)
- Movits! will be performing, with special guests at “Moes Original Bar B Que” on Wednesday, April 13th at 9:00PM, in Denver, CO.
- The film clip for Movits! new song “Sammy David Jr” from their second album “Out of my Head” (released April 5th) has been released.
Six Degrees: February Already Edition.
G’day Zoners!! and welcome to the latest Six Degrees round up. This week we have some exciting new projects from the TCR writers, interviews with Amy and David Sedaris and Jon Stewart joins the 9/11 Memorial Board.
The Colbert Report
Jay Katsir and Rob Dubbin (Writers)
- The popular children’s educational program “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego”, written by Jay, Rob and gaming/music journalist Chris Dahlen will be released as a Facebook game on February 9th.
Max Werner (Writer)
- Max’s script “Fun Size” has been picked up by Paramount Pictures, and will make the directorial debute of “Chuck” creator Josh Schwartz.
The Daily Show
Jon Stewart (Host/Writer)
- Jon has been appointed to the board of National September 11 Memorial and Museum.
Aasif Mandvi (Correspondant)
- Aasif talks to Al Jazerea about diversity in Hollywood and cultural stereotypes in the US film industry.
Elliott Kalan (Writer)
- As part 92Y Tribeca’s Closely Watched Films series, Elliott will be discussing Hal Ashby’s “The Landlord” (1970), on February 2nd at 7:30PM.
John Hodgman (Contributor)
- John will be hosting a “comedy cabaret” at Wilco’s second Solid Sound Festival from June 24-26 at Mass MoCA in North Adams, MA.
Josh Gad (Contributor)
- Created by and starring Josh, the new series “Gigi: Almost American” will debut as the first original digital series from BBC Worldwide Productions (co-produced and distributed by “My Damn Channel” and the comedy troupe “The Lost Nomads”).
Kristen Schaal (Contributor)
- Kristen talks to the A.V Club and TV Squad about her voice-over work in the new animated series “Bob’s Burgers”.
Paul Mecurio (Warm-Up Comedian)
- Paul will be on “The Sean Hannity Show” on Wednesday, February 2nd.
Friends of the Show
Amy Sedaris (Strangers with Candy)
- Amy will be a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Monday, February 7th.
- Amy recently lent her voice to an episode of “SpongeBob SquarePants” entitled “Legends of Bikini Bottom:Trench Billies”.
Conan O’Brien (Friend of the Show)
- CBS has picked up the multi-camera comedy pilot “Vince Uncensored” by Conan’s production company “Conaco”. Conan will serve as executive producer, with the show to be written by Phoef Sutton (Cheers).
Dana Carvey (The Dana Carvey Show)
- Dana will be a guest on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on Thursday, February 3rd.
David Sedaris (Friend of the Show)
- David talks to Heeb Magazine about his “Squirell Seeks Chipmunk” book tour.
