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Gina Brillon also advanced this summer into AGT’s quarterfinals rounds, performing live on Tuesday’s episode. Will your votes in the next hours put her through to the next round? Hear her joke about trying to get a formal job with a Rosie Perez accent, and the joys and pitfalls of …
The Summer Olympics are over, so America’s Got Talent is back on NBC primetime, and we’re into the live quarterfinals performances. Kabir Singh is among them! He joked Tuesday about his mom’s texts. Will Singh make it through to the next round? Your votes will help determine his fate tonight …
Trevor Moore, the affable frontman of The Whitest Kids U’ Know who went on to make multiple solo comedy specials, co-create two Disney comedy series, and host an online talk show for Comedy Central, has died after a freak accident. Moore was 41. Moore’s death was confirmed Saturday by his …
Even though most of Montreal’s Just For Laughs stuck to virtual digital screens and meet-ups, JFL last week still could host and declare winners for its annual “Stand Up & Pitch” competitions. FROM JFL: Each winning project is invited back to attend JFL 2022 and provided one (1) flight, one …
After a hiatus in 2020 for the pandemic, both the San Francisco Comedy Competition and the Seattle Comedy Competition plan to resume this summer and fall. Both are monthlong stand-up contests, with each round lasting over a week as comedians perform for different crowds in different cities — in the …
Delta variant? What Delta variant? Sebastian Maniscalco’s upcoming arena comedy tour already is setting ticket-selling records. Today he became the first to comedian to pack the brand-new UBS Arena, the future home of the New York Islanders NHL team, located on the border of Queens and Long Island in Belmont Park. …
Remember this is an exhibition, not a competition. Please, no wagering! Stupid Pet Tricks are returning to TV, this time on TBS, with Sarah Silverman hosting a revival of David Letterman’s long-running late-night TV segment. Letterman’s Worldwide Pants is producing, and Merrill Markoe will serve as consulting producer. Here’s the …
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 …
