The Comedy Store establishes Comedian Assistance Fund, with assigned MPTF social worker
by In the wake of Mitzi Shore’s death two months ago, The Comedy Store has partnered with the Motion Picture & Television Fund to create a Comedians …
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The Comedy Studio raising funds for its move into new home in Somerville
The Comedy Studio, for more than 20 years the home of up-and-coming voices in the Boston comedy scene from the third floor of the Hong …
New biography, documentary explore the life and death of Robin Williams
Is there ever an appropriate time to look back at the life and legacy of Robin Williams without feeling sad at how it all ended? …
Nathan Fielder shows how you can hack the Emmy voting process
Nathan Fielder has proven quite successful at manipulating the media and business worlds, often at the same time, through his Comedy Central series Nathan For …
Dave Chappelle and John Mayer to perform at Just For Laughs Montreal 2018
Dave Chappelle has enjoyed popping up at John Mayer’s concerts, and vice versa. This July, they’re putting on a planned performance together in Montreal that …
The Stand comedy club moving this summer from Gramercy to Union Square
Comedy clubs may come and go in New York City, usually arriving with fanfare and disappearing without much notice. It’s a tough business. Tougher when …
Jimmy Fallon delivers graduation address to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Jimmy Fallon didn’t surprise students in Parkland, Fla., on Sunday, so much as he made good on a promise he’d made to some of them …
Brad Williams joins The Degenerates special taping for Netflix
And now there are six. When Netflix announced it would tape six half-hour stand-up specials in June in Las Vegas called The Degenerates, they’d only …
Samantha Bee and the art of the apology
Most of the official videos from this week’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee have been scrubbed from the TBS talker’s official YouTube page. There is …
The rise and fall and rise and fall of Roseanne
What to make of Roseanne Barr? Yet another hot take? No. Her personal and professional lives, to both the most casual observers and the most …