Congratulations to Jordan Brookes, winner of Best Show at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and to Catherine Cohen, this year’s Best Newcomer winner! I sat down with Cohen this summer in San Francisco at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest, and we chatted about her anticipation for taking her show to...
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Netflix is returning to Las Vegas for a second straight year to tape the second season of The Degenerates, which is the streaming giant’s name for stand-up comedians who deliver “RAW and EDGY” comedy. Adrienne Iapalucci, Donnell Rawlings, Ms. Pat, Robert Kelly, Nikki Glaser, and a sixth comedian to be named later will film new half-hours this September, to be released before the end of 2019. They’re filming again at Triple B’s — aka Backstage Bar & Billiards — on Sept. 12, 2019. Tickets are free to fans 21 and older, and available now! Click here for all the...
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Well, ain’t this a surprise. Eddie Murphy sat down with Jerry Seinfeld outside of their regularly-scheduled Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for a discussion moderated by Joy Reid to talk about comedy for another 40 minutes. Who would they put on the Mount Rushmore of Comedy? That’s a question I’ve wondered about for years. Let’s see what they had to say. Roll the clip! The Mount Rushmore talk starts halfway in…but there’s not nearly enough of it, because Reid moves on to other topics. But we do get to hear Murphy and Seinfeld talk about the greatness of Flip...
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After five years in the United States, Libyan comedian Mohanad Elshieky has some thoughts about America and would like to speak to its manager, as he joked on...
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Comedy Central’s half-hour specials for 2019 will kick off this October. More specifically, here’s the Friday night rundown for Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… premieres (times are Eastern/Pacific): Friday, Oct. 18: Jaboukie Young-White (11pm); Vanessa Gonzalez (11:30pm) Friday, Oct. 25: Dulcé Sloan (11pm); Will Miles (11:30pm) Friday, Nov. 1: Tom Thakkar (11pm); Mia Jackson (11:30pm) Friday, Nov. 8: Joe Kwaczala (11pm); Nore Davis (11:30pm) Friday, Nov. 15: David Gborie (11pm); Allen Strickland Williams (11:30pm) Friday, Nov. 22: Charles Gould (11pm); Sara Schaefer...
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