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This Week in Blackness and Chocolate News
by Comedy Central’s Chocolate News, hosted by David Alan Grier and covering current events from the black perspective, will debut on Oct. 15. Meanwhile, Brooklyn stand-up …
Author: Sean L. McCarthy
Editor and publisher since 2007, when he was named New York's Funniest Reporter. Former newspaper reporter at the New York Daily News, Boston Herald and smaller dailies and community papers across America. Loves comedy so much he founded this site.
Bill Engvall gets third season on TBS
TBS announced today it has ordered a third season of The Bill Engvall Show, with 10 new episodes expected to air in summer 2009. The …
James Adomian on video as Orson Welles, disgruntled politician
Remember how I was writing such nice things after the Del Close Marathon about how James Adomian came in from the city of angels and …
Mitch Hedberg, live onstage in Montreal and Cincinnati
At the 2004 Just For Laughs galas in Montreal, Mitch Hedberg presented a set that included some classic jokes, plus a few bits that found …
Tonight: Mitch Across America
Tonight, comedy clubs in six cities across America will salute the posthumous release of Do You Believe in Gosh? by the late, great comedian Mitch …
Tom Shillue is “Supernormal”
Comedian Tom Shillue took his new one-man show out for a test run on Sunday night at Joe’s Pub in New York City. He called …
The 25th MTV VMAs
Did comedy happen at last night’s 25th installment of the MTV Video Music Awards? Well, did it? Were there hijinx to report? Amid all the …
The Bastion says goodbye?!
Chicago comedy blog The Bastion unleashed a flurry of posts today, then followed that up with an announcement that it was closing up shop. What …
The Bonnie Hunt Show, starting Monday Sept. 8
If Ellen can do it, and Rosie could do it, then why can’t Bonnie Hunt bring her witty skills to daytime TV? Eggsactly. So The …
“Shoe Circus,” the Seinfeld-Bill Gates Microsoft ad
So you may have heard that Microsoft would pay comedian Jerry Seinfeld a gabunch of money (gabunch is a technical term meaning roughly $10 million) …