Day: May 19, 2014

Last Comic Standing Season 8 mentors: Wanda Sykes, Howie Mandel, Amy Schumer, Cheryl Hines and Jeff Ross

Last Comic Standing Season 8 mentors: Wanda Sykes, Howie Mandel, Amy Schumer, Cheryl Hines and Jeff Ross

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NBC’s reboot of Last Comic Standing debuts Thursday with a two-hour premiere and the promise of mentors for the top 10 finalists picked from the 100 invited stand-up comedian contestants. Wanda Sykes, one of the Last Comic executive producers, will show up on camera as one of the mentors for the finalists. Joining Sykes? None other than Howie Mandel, who’s also a long-running judge on NBC’s other summer talent competition — America’s Got Talent — plus past Last Comic finalist Amy Schumer, Cheryl Hines and Jeff Ross. Among the announced challenges: A Roast, where Ross serves as Roastmaster and...

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Comedy wins none of the 2014 Billboard Music Awards but all of the focus of this week’s magazine issue

Comedy wins none of the 2014 Billboard Music Awards but all of the focus of this week’s magazine issue

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You probably heard about, if you didn’t also already see, the hologram of the late Michael Jackson performing at Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, televised live to an audience of millions. The Billboard Music Awards are perhaps the least surprising awards of all in “Awards Season,” as each of the 39 winners knew they’d won, their victories determined from the year-end Billboard chart rankings from sales and downloads. And yet. Most surprising of all about the 2014 BBMAs wasn’t the appearance of our dead “King of Pop,” but the oversight in excluding any comedy act among the award winners....

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Eddie Izzard’s “Force Majeure” in German, English and French on Normandy this D-Day in 2014

Eddie Izzard’s “Force Majeure” in German, English and French on Normandy this D-Day in 2014

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Eddie Izzard has run a marathon of marathons. He has toured the world as a stand-up comedian. But are you ready for Izzard to storm the beaches of Normandy on the 70th anniversary of D-Day by performing his current show three times in a row, once in German, once in English and once more in French? Perhaps he is embodying “Force Majeure,” or perhaps he is merely doing what he says in the posters — paying tribute “to those who fought for democracy and freedom in World War II and since World War II.” One thing’s for certain. The...

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Splitsider Presents: “A Night At Whiplash,” a stand-up concert film

Splitsider Presents: “A Night At Whiplash,” a stand-up concert film

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The website Splitsider has released its second movie today, this one a stand-up concert film documenting one of New York City’s best weekly comedy shows — “Whiplash,” hosted by Leo Allen and produced by Jeremy Levenbach each Monday at 11 for free at the UCB Theatre in Chelsea. A Night At Whiplash costs $5 and features performances by Allen with Sheng Wang, Carmen Lynch, Eugene Mirman, Janeane Garofalo, Jared Logan, Michael Che and Sean Patton. It comes as both HD and SD download, and HD stream, with full audio available in FLAC, MP3 and streaming formats. As Splitsider founding editor...

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My Pod Week: Week ending 5/18/14

My Pod Week: Week ending 5/18/14

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Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! THE DANA GOULD HOUR (Episode: “Heavy Duty“) I’ve enjoyed Dana Gould’s podcast ever since its 2012 debut. Episodes are released about once a month and have gotten much longer than an hour. The show is well crafted and designed like an arctic ice breaker, unsinkable. Dana greets the listener with an intro and then rotates between two sets...

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