When Louis C.K. announced that he was selling tickets to his shows for $45, cutting out ticket middlemen entirely, the response was fairly giddy. As of this writing, he sold $6,102,000 in tickets, not a bad haul. Of those 135,600 tickets, 500 are now floating around the scalping sites.
He did, however do a little experiment: he sold two shows traditionally, through Ticketmaster and the like… → Read More
Comedian Louis C.K. is using the Internet to his advantage by selling tickets to his upcoming shows online, cutting out the ticket sales systems entirely. He’s also implementing a system to cancel scalped tickets. Each ticket will cost $45 after tax. He explains his vision this way:
By selling the tickets exclusively on my site, I’ve cut the ticket charges way down and absorbed them into the… → Read More
If you’re not familiar with Jim Gaffigan, you should be. He’s one of the funniest comics standing and he’s a kind, gentle soul with a mid-westerner’s sensibility and a hilarious bit about Hot Pockets. Like Louis CK before him, Gaffigan just announced that he’s filming a comedy special in DC next month and will make it available for a $5 download – with one dollar going to The Bob Woodruff… → Read More
It’s always heartening to see an experiment in disintermediated content succeed and it couldn’t have happened to a better guy. Louis CK began selling his one-hour comedy special on his own website for $5 a pop last Sunday and, as of today, he’s reporting he’s made over $500,000 from 110,000 downloads. This is a profit of over $200,000 on a concert that cost him about $170,000 to film and edit… → Read More
Following Radiohead into the wild world of micropayments, comedian Louis CK is offering his latest concert film, Live At The Beacon Theatre, as a DRM-free download or stream for $5.
Once payment is tendered, downloaders can both stream and download the movie twice. Once those four chances are used up you have to pay again, although because the MP4 file is DRM-free there is nothing stopping you… → Read More
A little update on Conan O’Brien, seeing as though we spent a couple of days there talking about his every move. The man is taking his show on the road, bringing the funny to a city near you in the coming weeks! It’s the called “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny On Television Tour,” and I’m sure it’ll be wonderful. → Read More
It was only a few months ago that comedian Louis CK became an Internet sensation. Comedy fans had followed his act for years, but it was his appearance on Late Night With Conan that lead to posts by Doug Aamoth and interviews with Vanity Fair. And now the comedian, who’s a big Leica fan, by the way, looks to be getting another sitcom, this time on FX. → Read More
If you haven’t seen The Kids in the Hall, you haven’t LIVED! Put it on your bucket list! If you’ve seen and enjoy the wonderfully weird sketches, you may be interested to know that Amazon is selling the entire five-season Kids in the Hall series for $109. It spans 20 DVDs and contains all the episodes, plus a bunch of behind-the-scenes stuff, interviews, deleted scenes, and some of the… → Read More
One of my favorite comedians, Louis C.K., sums up how people take modern-day technology and air travel for granted. This isn’t a super-recent interview with Conan O’Brien, but it’s something to remember if you’ll be traveling for the holidays. Good stuff. → Read More
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is launching a $300 million ad campaign starting September 4th. The ads will star none other than Jerry Seinfeld, who’s reported to be receiving about $10 million. Not bad, eh? The campaign is being developed to combat the negative image that many consumers have about Windows Vista and also to finally push back against Apple’s popular Mac vs. → Read More
http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/489af560addadbf4/48987cb5e440cf6c/4bbaca39 Comic-Con 2008 came and went, and somehow this delightful Comic the Insult Comic Dog skit flew right under our noses. It’s the same “you guys are dorks” deal that Triumph has been doing for several years now, so if you’re offended by sophomoric humor à la Conan steer clear. via Someone’s… → Read More
http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:hcx:content:atom.com:c4cbe46a-bd0c-407a-abb6-5f0c335d6b19 Here is a short film called “Jedi Gym” that’s part of Atom’s Star Wars Fan Movie Challenge. Some of you might find the film to be hilarious. Others might say something seemingly clever like “Hey, give me back that six minutes” or “Hey, you owe me six minutes” or “Hey, six minutes was how… → Read More
I know this video is old, but chances are a few of you haven’t seen it. And even if you have seen it, it’s still funny, so deal with it. Darth Vader ‘Death By Tray’ Lego Video [Geekadelphia] → Read More
As of right now, only one episode is available and according to some iTunes users, the quality is pretty sucky. But don’t let that stop you from getting excited. Seems FOX finally caught on that college kids and teenagers around the country love raunchy animated comedies and thus decided to bring Family Guy to iTunes. Yes, you can now watch full episodes of Stewie, Brian and Peter Griffin… → Read More
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