Mark Lashley: Negotiating the Rules of a New Medium with Comedy Bang! Bang!

It's taken half a season of growth, but IFC's Comedy Bang! Bang! has become essential viewing for fans of the craft of comedy. Maybe not as essential as, say, Louie, which Patton Oswalt notes is the truest representation of a working comedian's lifestyle ever caught on film. But CBB is perhaps TV's most interesting comedy in terms of displaying jokes in process, in a paradoxical comedic space where even the most serendipitous improvised ...

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