-The Best Show on WFMU ended its 13-year run, and we talked with host and professional chump-steamroller Tom Scharpling about the last days of the show.
-SNL producers chose 11 black female performers as finalists to be the show’s new cast member.
-A group of ex-Onion writers known as Wild Aggressive Dog made a hilarious fake college infomercial for Adult Swim.
-We interviewed Bo Burnham about his new special and fame, Will Forte about Macgruber 2 and his new movie Nebraska, Brody Stevens about his new Comedy Central show, and Mike Lawrence about his beginnings as a standup.
-Paul Rudd will star in Marvel’s upcoming Ant-Man movie.
-Sketch duo BriTANick is writing, directing, and starring in a movie, and CollegeHumor sketch duo Jake and Amir are developing a show with TBS.
-Netflix removed most of its massive SNL library. We tried to figure out why, and they were real cagey about it.
-We looked back at the most recent season of South Park, and made a video list of Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake’s best moments together.
-David Koechner is creating and staring in a new NBC sketch comedy pilot,
-Bo Burnham released his new standup special, and Above Average premiered its new web series Hudson Valley Ballers from James Anderson and Paula Pell.
-Rob Delaney is starring in a comedy pilot with Sharon Horgan.
-Michael Ian Black has been cast in Jim Gaffigan’s new show on CBS .
-CNN wants Jay Leno for some inconceivable reason.
-We recommended the week’s best podcasts, the web series Bill Weiner: High School Guidance Counselor, and the Twitter feed of .
And here are your Top Five Web Comedy Videos of the Week:
Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis - “Happy Holidays Edition” (Funny or Die)
Puddin’ - “A Puddin’ Christmas”
Hudson Valley Ballers - “Best Friends” (Above Average)
Worst Gig Ever - “Max Silvestri Analyzes the Worst Jokes Ever” (Official Comedy)
Rob Delaney - “Duck Dynasty Butthole Logic”
