Festival submissions roundup: Deadlines approaching for Pittsburgh, Femme Fest, and 10,000 Laughs
by My friend JC Coccoli is helping produce this year’s Pittsburgh Comedy Festival back in her Three Rivers hometown, and she wanted me to remind you …
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.
Netflix producing new half-hour stand-up showcase series, “The Degenerates”
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Watch Amy Schumer deliver her monologue hosting SNL in 2018
Amy Schumer returned to host Saturday Night Live this weekend, but for her second time around, the stand-up comedian and actress is now a newlywed. …
SNL cast members start the show with their mothers for Mother’s Day 2018
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Dov Davidoff on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
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