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Neal Brennan is following up his successful 2016 Off-Broadway run of 3 Mics, which begat a 2017 Netflix special, with a new one-man show. This is Unacceptable. It’ll open Aug. 25, 2021, at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City’s West Village, with a limited run scheduled of six …
Jackie Mason, a Tony and Emmy-winning stand-up comedian so identified with Yiddish humor he named his YouTube channel, “TheUltimateJew,” died on Saturday at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. Mason was 93. Mason won a Special Tony Award in 1987 for his first one-man show on Broadway, The World According to …
Comedy Central is staying in the half-hour special business in 2021, filming three new half-hours this weekend in New York City. Ian Lara, RB Butcher and Yedoye Travis will get the Comedy Central special treatment on July 30, filming their half-hours at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. The July 30 …
Congrats to this year’s special crop of “New Faces” for Just For Laughs to entice the industry of managers, agents, network executives and casting agents to drool over and pay for industry passes to this week’s virtual hybrid festival, held in 2021 in Montreal, Los Angeles and New York City. …
Tig Notaro has both survived and thrived in the decade since she first disclosed her breast cancer diagnosis to a live audience in Los Angeles in August of 2012. Notaro has released three stand-up specials, two on HBO and one on Netflix, in addition to a road-trip special for Showtime, …
Alex Falcone made his network television debut on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show, joking about how he’s still married to his childhood sweetheart, and wouldn’t mind getting friend-zoned at all. By anyone.
This May, two similar yet tonally completely different sketch series premiered on HBO and HBO Max from the orbit of Saturday Night Live. And now we’ll be able to see what Michael Che and Sam Jay have to say with a second season! Today HBO Max announced the renewal of …
Look, we all want to be excited about Jon Stewart’s return to TV. Just like we want to be excited about the idea that anyone can blast off into space. It’s just…not everyone can get on that rocket ship. And Stewart’s promo sketch for The Problem with Jon Stewart, coming …
Comedy Central teased the return of Stephen Colbert on our screens the other night. Turns out it’s all to trumpet tha new talk show from radio personality Charlamagne Tha God, which Colbert will executive produce for Comedy Central. Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard ‘Charlamagne’ McKelvey, a weekly half hour …
Good news for friends, family and fans of Ashley Barnhill (plus Barnhill herself!), as the stand-up comedian is back onstage and on the mend, a year after a car struck her while jogging and nearly killed her. The accident happened May 21, 2020, as Barnhill was jogging along a Los …
