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The second annual Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival has joined up with Second City alums and more as the schedule comes into focus. JFL Chicago 2010 already had announced another new TV special with Ellen DeGeneres, Denis Leary's Rescue Me Comedy Tour, Cedric the Entertainer, Aziz Ansari, Russell Peters …
One of the more intriguing events listed on the schedule for the 2010 Bridgetown Comedy Festival was a panel featuring writers for Conan O'Brien moderated by Jimmy Pardo, who had provided the audience warm-up comedy for the short-lived Conan edition of The Tonight Show. What would they say about the …
I was among the witnesses for Marc Maron's live taping of his WTF podcast over the weekend from the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, in which Hari Kondabolu, Ian Edwards and others gave Maron the business in front of a packed live audience. That should be a fun one to listen to. …
This is unusual. Alan Grayson, a Democratic congressman from Florida, will debate former GOP President George W. Bush tonight — except it's not really Bush but instead comedian James Adomian, and the live debate is happening as part of a comedy benefit in Hollywood that also will feature performances by …
Now that March Madness is far enough behind us, Rooftop Comedy has released a new set of brackets for college kids of the comedian variety for the 32 teams represented in the National College Comedy Competition. All of the student contestants will have three-minute stand-up videos online at TBS.com for …
Earlier in the 2000s, a group of Chicago stand-up comedians began working together to make their careers a little more innovative and in tunes with the birth of YouTube. They were known as Blerds. Many of them have splintered off to Los Angeles and New York, but next week, several …
Earlier in the 2000s, a group of Chicago stand-up comedians began working together to make their careers a little more innovative and in tunes with the birth of YouTube. They were known as Blerds. Many of them have splintered off to Los Angeles and New York, but next week, several …
While you were wondering if Sarah Silverman and Demetri Martin would get renewed, Comedy Central announced today it had ordered seven additional episodes of its new animated series Ugly Americans. The cable network have the series a huge promotional push, and it has been rewarded with an average of two …
Writing comedy on Twitter carries with it some of the same perils of performing comedy in front of a live audience: The notion that the audience may have heard it all before, either through parallel thinking (or if you dared to steal the joke outright), that the material is hack, …
This just in! The Just For Laughs Festival announced that British Columbia native Pamela Anderson, currently starring this spring on ABC's Dancing with the Stars, will host her own Just For Laughs televised Gala at the Montreal festival on July 15, and her dance partner Damian Whitewood will be there, …