Day: July 22, 2015

One year in: The Goddamn Comedy Jam rocks, raps and rolls through Montreal #JFLMTL

One year in: The Goddamn Comedy Jam rocks, raps and rolls through Montreal #JFLMTL

Posted by | Jul 22, 2015 | , |

The Goddamn Comedy Jam began life on July 21, 2014, in Los Angeles, another of the themed comedy showcases that strive to wake up the tired, cynical Hollywood crowds and get them focused on stand-up comedians and not their own g-d careers in show business. Every month at the Lyric Theatre in Los Angeles, host Josh Adam Meyers and house band Elemenopy welcome a series of stand-up comedians not only to perform 10 minutes of comedy, but also rock out singing with the band on anthems of their choosing — and proper introductions for the crowd about their song...

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Jeff Ross brings the Roastmasters Invitational to Montreal

Jeff Ross brings the Roastmasters Invitational to Montreal

Posted by | Jul 22, 2015 | |

For the past year and more, comedians have squared off in head-to-head competitions to match wits and trade insults at The Comedy Store in West Hollywood, Calif., in what have become hugely popular Roast Battles. Jeffrey Ross, aka “The Roastmaster General,” has overseen the Roast Battles in Los Angeles, and brought them to comedy festivals last November in New York City and this March in Austin at SXSW. Now Ross has brought the concept to Montreal’s Just For Laughs with a name change and a slightly more polished finish. The Roastmasters Invitational kicked off preliminary-round action Tuesday night at...

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Hype yourself up for Season 9 of Last Comic Standing on NBC with these videos

Hype yourself up for Season 9 of Last Comic Standing on NBC with these videos

Posted by | Jul 22, 2015 | , |

Last Comic Standing returns for the start of season 9 tonight on NBC, and The Comic’s Comic already has told you who to keep your eyes peeled for among the Top 100 stand-up comedians invited to perform and compete this summer. So now’s the time to get excited. Excite yourself with this healthy helping of promotional teaser videos! Executive producer Wanda Sykes with new host Anthony Jeselnik. Jeselnik says no more outside challenges. This time, the judges pair up comedians for head-to-head competition to narrow the field to the Final 5. “It’s a much more tense, nightmarish experience to...

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Review: Dave Chappelle at Montreal’s Just For Laughs 2015

Review: Dave Chappelle at Montreal’s Just For Laughs 2015

Posted by | Jul 22, 2015 | |

DJ Trauma is urging the audience to stand and wave their arms in the air, as if they don’t care that they’ve waited in line, then sat through a half-hour of pumped-up jams, racially sensitive jokes from “Ashy Larry” and more remixed dance anthems from the 1970s and 1980s. He could be hyping up the crowd. Or he could be killing time. Probably both. After all, as the DJ shouts to the sold-out crowd assembled at Théâtre Maisonneuve of Montreal’s Place des Arts: “This isn’t a regular comedy show. This is a Dave Chappelle comedy show!” Chappelle set a Montreal Just For...

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