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Jodi Miller got her big break on Tuesday’s episode of America’s Got Talent on NBC. Miller, who has a weekly gig as a co-host at The Comedy Store’s Belly Room on Thursday nights, told AGT she continues to deliver groceries to pay the bills. No more day job for her …
Happy Mondays all around to several comedians thanks to this news from Comedy Central: The network has ordered two new series — Another Period and Idiotsitter— and renewed three others, Inside Amy Schumer, Review and TripTank. Comedy Central President Kent Alterman also announced five original webseries coming out this summer and later this …
Richard Michael “Rik” Mayall, who forged a cult classic of a comedy career in the 1980s with his comedy partner, Adrian Edmondson, died today in his home in Barnes, London. Mayall was 56. Audiences best knew Mayall as Rick, the loud, anarchist poet in The Young Ones, which aired for …
Julian McCullough toured with Jimmy Fallon last fall on his Clean Cut Comedy Tour, so obviously, Fallon knows McCullough has five minutes of TV-clean material to perform on The Tonight Show. Which he did this past Friday night! In this set, he jokes about how open it is in Kansas. …
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight is embracing its subversive side more and more a month into its run on HBO. Last night, Oliver reported on Syran President Bashar al-Assad, who despite years of civil war that has him finding new ways to kill his own people, still remains in power …
As I was live-blogging last night’s final installment of “The Invitational” rounds for the Top 100 on season 8 of Last Comic Standing, the math kept nagging at me. I mean, I knew after the two-hour premiere a couple of weeks ago, when they showed 31 comedians, that it’d take …
Beth Stelling has made choices in her life. We’ve all made choices. You know we all can make choices, right? For Stelling, it’s leaving Ohio, touring the country telling jokes, maintaining a long-distance relationship, and telling really great jokes. This set on Thursday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show …
Joe List likes to worry. Fortunately, he only has to joke about worrying because this set on Thursday night’s Late Show with David Letterman is fantastic. The kind of set that puts hair on his chest, drops a few pounds on the scale and makes him smile a big smile. …
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s Nick Turner on Late Night with Seth Meyers! I knew it the whole time. But what about the guy who didn’t? Turner jokes about that guy, as well as how his weight loss delights friends and confuses strangers. Roll the clip!
So here we are. The final episode of the “Invitational” rounds for the Top 100, and we still have so many comics out of those 100 to see, meet and hear tell us jokey jokes! How can we fit that all in a single hour? No time for trick questions; …
