BRICKLEBERRY (Comedy Central, Sept. 25) This new animated series, paired on Tuesday nights with "Tosh 2.0" — the comedian Daniel Tosh, fresh off his rape-joke controversy in July, is an executive producer — features the rangers and nonhuman residents of the fictional Brickleberry National Park.
Still no word from comedian Jimmy Carr, fresh from his titanic tussle with Jonathan Ross.
But last weekend, the 77-year-old comedian faced fresh allegations from a woman who says he raped her in 1969, when she was 19 years old.
Mr. Carolla wasn't available, but Mr. Foust is back, joined by the comedian Adam Ferrara, fresh from "Rescue Me" on FX, and Rutledge Wood, who had been doing comic reports during Speed Channel's Nascar coverage.
Other names to watch include Gina Yashere and Kojo the Comedian, AKA the Fresh Prince of Hackney, who have Nigerian and Ghanaian ancestry respectively.
Making their first New York club appearance in 36 years, the humorous folk-singing duo hold up as a classic comedy act, gentler in tone than today's younger comedians, but perennially fresh.
I guess – this will sound bad – I have managed to relish the show for all its 13 years without noticing how seriously they took the quiz element, thinking it was mainly about the surreal genius of Alan Davies and its alchemical reaction with Stephen Fry's headmasterly omniscience, with other comedians acting as fresh meat and the answers more of a garnish.
It would be fresh meat for every late-night comedian, right on the eve of national elections in November that will decide which party controls Congress.
"Bob's a breath of fresh air in a group of comedians who are mostly 20- or 30-something's trying to get into television or have a sitcom career.
Snarky anti-Pride parade critics, with their reusable punchlines, are beginning to sound like last year's comedians in sore need of fresh material.
