Day: December 8, 2016

R.I.P. Adrianne Tolsch

R.I.P. Adrianne Tolsch

Posted by | Dec 8, 2016 | |

Adrianne Tolsch, a Brooklyn native who influenced the New York City comedy scene in the 1970s as the first female MC at Catch A Rising Star and later the club’s booker and manager for years, has died from esophageal cancer. Tolsch was 78. Her husband, longtime David Letterman writer Bill Scheft, broke the news on Twitter. Gone to heaven, 5:45 this morning. pic.twitter.com/8mRqkJ0HY1 — Bill Scheft (@billscheft) December 7, 2016 Scheft told Entertainment Weekly that about 40 friends came to visit her on Tuesday, including Letterman and Late Show bandleader Paul Shaffer. “She made a connection with everyone,” he...

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Review: Reggie Watts, “Spatial,” on Netflix

Review: Reggie Watts, “Spatial,” on Netflix

Posted by | Dec 8, 2016 | |

No secret I’ve been a fan and friendly with Reggie Watts since the beginning of The Comic’s Comic. His first hour for Netflix, Spatial, came out this week, and here’s an excerpt from my review: As clear as the all-caps words on Watts’s T-shirt – CHAOTIC GOOD – the comedian/musician’s mission is benevolent disruption. That’s at the heart of all comedy, the upending of your expectations, saying things you wished you could have thought of first, or if you had, then had the courage to say aloud, the misdirections and the inhibitions both. Watts pulls all of this off...

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