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What is sexy? Fabio, natch. But what else? The magazine, cosmetics, music, and clothing industries have spent years trying to answer that question or at least sell you magazines that may hold the answer. Women and men from Nepal to Nebraska have spent dollars and rupees looking for just the right perfume, skirt, or hairstyle…
Every Thursday night at 7:45 p.m. ET/PT, The Grid opens its doors and host Jesse Thorn welcomes viewers to a smorgasbord of cultural delights. Ranging from music to memes to movies to must have items, The Grid covers every possible topic people could be discussing around the water cooler, virtual or IRL. However, in the…
Are you a young person looking to retire? An artist looking for more productive unemployment? A designer looking to win “Project Runway”? A musician looking for some music history to tap into? Need a place to showcase your flannel collection? Or engage in some competitive reading? Then Portlandia might be the place for you. But…
On tonight’s episode of The Larry Sanders Show, legendary comedian Carol Burnett makes a guest appearance on the show. If you don’t know Carol Burnett: You have been missing out. Also, most likely living in a cave somewhere. The Carol Burnett Show was a sketch comedy television show that starred Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Charles Dickens used the phrase to describe the year 1775, but it could just as easily be written about high school. Ah, high school. If you’re less of a Heather and more of a nerd herder, you probably already know and love Judd…
Portlandia is the City that Reads. Okay, sure, technically Portland is the City of Roses and Baltimore has some how laid claim to the literary title, but still, people in Portland read a lot. And can you blame them? For nine months of the year the weather is grey and drizzly and you have to…
We are so excited for January 21 at 10 p.m. ET/PT when the Onion News Network and Portlandia premiere on IFC. We know you will love these shows because …well, how could you not? Know what else we are excited about? Some of the shows we have in development right now that MIGHT (fingers crossed!)…
It’s cold and flu season! Bring the remote control into your hermetically sealed plastic bubble and watch the world from a safe distance. Here’s what to watch this week on IFC: Monday Arrested Development + Arrested Development + The Larry Sanders Show = Monday Night done right. The perfect beginning to your week starts at…
Tonight we are showing two episodes of the antics of everyone’s favorite family …er, second favorite. You know, the Cosbys are first. Anyway, it’s the Bluths! As part of our Friday night comedy block we are showing back-to-back episodes of Arrested Development followed by Mr. Show with Bob and David. We love the Bluths! Also,…
If we’re doing our job right, Portlandia has you dreaming of Portland, Ore. You know, the place where young people go to retire because the Dream of the 90s is Alive in Portland. But what about the music of the 90s? How will you prove your Portland cred once you land on the fair city’s…
While Ladies Night usually conjures up images of dank dive bars teeming with all the mustachioed men in pleather jackets, white pants, and gold chains in a ten-mile radius of the place all eager to offer any willing “ladies” a shot of Goldschlager and a sultry spin on the dance the floor to “Lady in…
As we all wait with bated breath for Portlandia to premiere on January 21st at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT, star and co-creator Carrie Brownstein has been out spreading the gospel of “Portlandia.” Recently she sat down with Live Wire! Radio to talk sketch comedy and Portland. Live Wire! Radio is a weekly one-hour radio show that…
When the television show “Jackass” filmed in Portland, Ore., they covered themselves in a toxic combo of refried beans, mud, and stink bombs and went around asking people for hugs. You know what? Everyone gave them a hug. Everyone. That’s just the kind of place my hometown of Portland is. When you hear stories like…
Way back in the early 90s, an unknown comedian got his friends to dress up and act out. And for some reason everyone laughed. I guess when you’re Ben Stiller and your friends include Janeane Garofolo, Andy Dick, and Bob Odenkirk, when you laugh, the world laughs with you. Tonight The Ben Stiller Show premieres…
Love the shows on IFC? Did you know that you can buy them on iTunes or Amazon and watch them on your portable electronic device on the train to grandma’s house? You know your grandmother would like it if you visited more. Let IFC help make that trip over the river and through the woods…
The Ben Stiller Show premieres tomorrow night on IFC at 10:30 p.m. ET. The comedy show featured Ben Stiller in sketches that skewered everything from television shows to Tom Cruise to Bono to commercials. The series won an Emmy® Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program. Writers on the…
Photo: Seth Olenick Tonight on IFC we are starting off the new year with a bang of new programming: The Larry Sanders Show, Mr. Show with Bob and David, and The Ben Stiller Show all premiere on IFC this week. To accompany our exciting new shows we asked Scott Aukerman from LA’s famed Comedy Death…
Happy New Year! This year everyone we know had the same resolution: Watch more television. Here at IFC, we want to help you reach your goals and keep those resolutions all year long. Luckily for all of us resolution keepers, some of the best comedies from the 90s are hitting our airways this week: The…
As we wait patiently for The Larry Sanders Show and The Ben Stiller Show to join the roster of Judd Apatow’s greatest hits we play on our air, we’ve been counting down 12 Days of Judd Apatow. Today marks the last installment of our tribute to our beloved Patron Saint. We’ve looked at his career…
Carrie Brownstein gained well-deserved fame and notoriety as the guitarist in Sleater-Kinney for songs like “Jumpers”: Then she started doing sketch comedy with Saturday Night Live’s Fred Armisen in Thunderant and crafted scenes like this: Then along came Portlandia, her upcoming show on IFC with Fred Armisen, which premieres January 21, 2011 at 10:30 p.m.…
As our celebration of all things Apatow, 12 Days of Judd Apatow, draws to a close, we turn to 2008′s “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” The script was penned by Apatow regular, Jason Segel, who also played the lead. Like we need to tell you, but Segel starred in Apatow’s series Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared. The…
If you know an idiot, please make sure they’re safe and not standing naked in a snow embankment on a dare. Onion News Network is coming to IFC on January 21 at 10pm.
In 2007, Our Patron Saint, Judd Apatow, once again collaborated with his Freaks and Geeks and Undeclared star, Seth Rogen, but this time, Rogen wrote the script that Apatow produced. The film was “Superbad”, which was directed by Greg Mottola and starred Jonah Hill and Michael Cera. The movie follows friends Seth (Hill) and Evan…
Written, directed and produced by Apatow, “Knocked Up” (2007) was his highly planned and not-at-all accidental baby. The film starred Katherine Heigl as an up-and-coming entertainment reporter who celebrates sans protection and ends up pregnant with Seth Rogen’s baby after a one-night stand. The couple is ridiculously mismatched: She’s ambitious, organized, and, well, doesn’t sit…
We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming to bring you this breaking news from the Onion News Network: The Onion News Network premieres on IFC on January 21, 2011 at 10 p.m. PT/ET
