Katie Hannigan’s network TV debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
by Katie Hannigan performed as a New Face last month at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival, and last night, introduced her face to many millions more …
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Oliver Graves performs on Judges Cut night on America’s Got Talent 2018
Oliver Graves is still goth, but doesn’t want to keep working retail jobs, so he hopes his look and his jokes are enough for this …
Welcome to the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY
The long-awaited National Comedy Center opens its doors this week in Jamestown, NY, the birthplace of comedy legend Lucille Ball. Grand Opening festivities boast appearances …
Lisa Best on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Lisa Best practiced kissing with her stuffed animals, but hasn’t everyone? Best also once got heckled by a child during a show, in the daylight. …
Episode #218: Rafinha Bastos
In 2011, Rafinha Bastos was named the most influential person on Twitter. Not then-President Barack Obama. Not the Pope. Brazilian comedian and TV personality Rafinha …
Highlights from the Roast of Bruce Willis on Comedy Central
Dom Irrera went off-script, Dennis Rodman bombed, Ed Norton surprised everyone and no one by focusing his roast on himself, and Demi Moore threatened to …
R.I.P. Poppi Kramer
To most Americans, Poppi Kramer was the first person to win big by losing weight big-time on NBC’s The Biggest Loser. To New York City …
Highlights from Andy Kindler’s 2018 State of the Industry Address at Just For Laughs Montreal
Andy Kindler delivered his most sincere and focused State of the Industry Address in years at Just For Laughs in Montreal. Which, of course, is …
Howie Mandel on owning Just For Laughs: “I was chasing this”
Howie Mandel recently opened a comedy club bearing his name in Atlantic City, and he’s long been a mainstay judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. …
Darren Knight’s Southern Momma hits a bump north of the border at Just For Laughs 2018
Can a white Tyler Perry make it in show business without the wigs, makeup or disguise? That’s not a rhetorical question in comedy, circa 2018. …