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Another of the original writers for Saturday Night Live has died. Anne Beatts, who was the first woman hired to help edit The National Lampoon, and after SNL went on to create the cult sitcom Square Pegs, died Wednesday. Beatts was 74. Her former colleague, SNL’s Laraine Newman, confirmed the …
Unless Adam Eget is pranking both me and his longtime colleagues at The Comedy Store, the club’s longtime booker has announced — on April 1 — that he has left Los Angeles for Austin to run the new comedy club that Joe Rogan plans to open in Texas’s capital city. …
It’s a great spring for Lil Rel Howery. Howery, who co-stars in the Oscar-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah as well as new Netflix hit movie Bad Trip with Eric Andre and Tiffany Haddish, plus a new national Aflac TV commercial with Rob Riggle, now also gets a gig of …
Dry Bar Comedy has 1.4 million subscribers to its YouTube channel, established four years ago, racking up some 400 million views of stand-up clips and full specials from North American comedians. They boast a library of more than 250 stand-up comedy specials, which you can view on YouTube, on Dry …
Is comedy’s Roast Era over? Or just in time-out like much everything else thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic? We’ll have to wait to find out. But as Diallo Riddle pointed out in the first episode of Comedy Central’s Hall of Flame: Top 100 Comedy Central Roast Moments, which aired Monday …
Jason Smith, the CEO of Starburns Audio, died on Friday. Originally from Sparks, Nev., Smith earned his bachelor’s degree in 2001 from the University of Nevada-Reno, before going on to study game design and development at Full Sail University. He was a partner in Feral Audio from 2015-2017, then became …
After a year of enduring even more hatred than before thanks to COVID-19, the Asian-American community has received an apology from a perhaps unlikely source: Jay Leno. The Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA) announced this week that it had settled a decades-long beef with the comedian and former …
Congrats to Phoebe Robinson on not letting the pandemic stop her from making her first starring Comedy Central TV show! Doing the Most with Phoebe Robinson will premiere on Friday, April 9 at 11 p.m. ET/PT, with a second episode airing at 11:30 p.m. The 10-episode half-hour series stars Robinson …
Congrats to the following comedy writers who came home (even if they already were at home for the virtual ceremony) with awards this year from the Writers Guild Association. ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Dan Swimer & Peter Baynham & Erica Rivinoja …
The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY, continues to grow even more into its name. Today the center announced the family of the late great Carl Reiner has donated his archives, and in conjunction with that move, along with Reiner’s position as a founding advisory board member for the center, …
