Month: May 2016

Tape Face auditions for America’s Got Talent 2016

Tape Face auditions for America’s Got Talent 2016

Posted by | May 31, 2016 | |

Tape Face — aka The Boy With Tape On His Face — won the Panel Award at Edinburgh Fringe in 2012, and has won multiple awards from Chortle and from the Adelaide Fringe. So it’s about time for him to conquer America, yes? That’s the plan. And it began tonight on the 2016 season premiere of America’s Got Talent on NBC, where the judges didn’t know what to make of him. Is he a mime? Not exactly. “He’s brilliant!” Howie Mandel exclaimed as Tape Face revealed the true nature of his act. Roll the clip!...

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Nathan Bockstahler, 6-year-old comedian auditions for America’s Got Talent 2016

Nathan Bockstahler, 6-year-old comedian auditions for America’s Got Talent 2016

Posted by | May 31, 2016 | |

Kids say the darnedest things if they can memorize them. And America’s Got Talent had no shame opening its 2016 season with a 6-year-old kid telling jokes. Meet Nathan Bockstahler. He’s cute. He knows how to interact with the judges — asking for one million Legos instead of $1 million when he wins the grand prize — and then telling jokes about how he supposedly has ADHD, and how his mom’s name isn’t even Mom. Give the kid extra credit for knowing mind explosions. Now prepare for your own mind to be blown. Roll the clip!...

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Toronto’s JFL42 2016 includes Jim Gaffigan, Tig Notaro, Trevor Noah, Jim Jefferies, Roseanne Barr, Anthony Jeselnik, Demetri Martin and Chris D’Elia

Toronto’s JFL42 2016 includes Jim Gaffigan, Tig Notaro, Trevor Noah, Jim Jefferies, Roseanne Barr, Anthony Jeselnik, Demetri Martin and Chris D’Elia

Posted by | May 31, 2016 | |

Just For Laughs has announced the lineup for its fifth annual edition of JFL42, a 42-show headliner stand-up comedy festival held at the end of September in Toronto. Getting top billing in 2016? Jim Gaffigan, Tig Notaro, Trevor Noah, Jim Jefferies, Roseanne Barr, Anthony Jeselnik, Demetri Martin and Chris D’Elia. Of course, so many of these other comedians could be highlighted at the top, too! Maria Bamford, Craig Robinson, Natasha Leggero, Margaret Cho, Jim Norton, Todd Barry, Neal Brennan, Emo Philips, Andy Kindler, Ron Funches, Big Jay Oakerson, Nate Bargatze, and more. JFL42 this year runs from Sept. 22 through Oct....

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Remembering Dan Mer: The tempest of the Tempe Improv

Remembering Dan Mer: The tempest of the Tempe Improv

Posted by | May 30, 2016 | |

Dan Mer wanted nothing to do with me at first. What’s in a name, anyhow? I moved to Tempe, Ariz., at the end of June 2001, into an apartment only a few blocks from the Tempe Improv and all of Arizona State University. Found out the day I moved in that the following day, July 1, was the Improv’s once-a-month Sunday open mic, and the only way to get on would be to show up after noon and sign up in person. So I did. First on the list. Mer wasn’t happy, because he had issues with another Sean McCarthy ...

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Episode #93: Nick Brazao, Just For Laughs New Faces and Off-JFL Producer

Episode #93: Nick Brazao, Just For Laughs New Faces and Off-JFL Producer

Posted by | May 30, 2016 | |

Nick Brazao is a producer with Just for Laughs, the world’s largest international comedy festival. He has been with the company since 2009, working on all of Just for Laughs’ festivals in Montreal, Toronto, Chicago and Sydney. Nick produces the Off-JFL club and theater shows for Montreal each July, and spearheads the massive undertaking that goes into selecting the New Faces of Comedy shows. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, it should. He’s the new man at New Faces. So let’s get to it! (photo above: Nick Brazao flanked by Hannah Kyle Crichton and Robbie Praw, a year ago...

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