Where the others breezed through the hot reality shows and soaps, What’s So Funny recaps selected comedy clips from the night before. Tapped for the hosting spots are comedian Mike Bachman, a former writer on Primetime in No Time, and Shira Lazar.
Sponsoring the series for Yahoo is ConAgra Foods, with episodes featuring post-roll video and display ads and for a rotation of its brands like Marie Callendar’s and Healthy Choice. Even within each 4-minute episode is a slightly forced, but bearable, “ingredients for good comedy” segment which breezes through some of the pair’s favorite comedy clips. There’s also the He Said-She Said face off to each episode, where each host picks their favorite comedy clip from the night before and makes the case for which is funnier. In the debut episode (above), Lazar backed an ‘underrated’ Taylor Swift clip from her SNL appearance which Bachman went with Larry David’s lemonade stand melee from the latest Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Online personality Shira Lazar is no stranger to hosted web series. For years now she’s been a venerable journeywoman of the internet, with a slew of semi-regular hosting gigs on shows like This Week in YouTube , TechStyle, LX.TV, and Reelz Channel’s What it Takes. But lately Lazar has signed on with two major media brands—CBS News and Yahoo!—giving her a much needed home for the budding media empress.
Lazar said she is happy with the long (by web TV standards) commitment, signing a 50-week contract with Yahoo, in a deal that she says pays her more than her previous on-air TV gig with NBC Los Angeles. “You can have a legitimate career online,” said Lazar explaining her drive to constantly be clocking 16-hour workdays. For now, it’s clear that she’s happy to balance her more serious CBSNews work—’experiential journalism’ as she calls it—with her lighter side that just loves a good laugh. And for us internet junkies, who better than one of our own to help fill us in on what we missed on TV last night?
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