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Bill Cosby’s biographer on the origin story of the “Cosby Sweater”
by The term “Cosby Sweater” is one of the most unlikeliest legacies to come out of the #1 TV show of the 1980s. And yet, even …
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Bob’s Burgers, Harry Shearer among first-time winners at 2014 Emmy Awards
“Mazel Tina!” That’s an appropriate title for the episode that won Bob’s Burgers its first Emmy Award over the weekend. Harry Shearer, long known but …
Sydney Castillo wins first season of Funniest Wins on TBS
In case you missed it, the other Wayans brother with a televised comedy competition this summer wrapped up its first season last weekend on TBS, …
Rod Man wins Last Comic Standing 8
This season they let the judges and not the viewing or the studio audience decide. So it was a celebrity expert panel of Roseanne, Russell …
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Netflix’s busy ongoing slate of stand-up comedy specials continues in 2014
Netflix has premiered and or distributed dozens of new stand-up comedy specials over the past year and a half, including recent performances from Doug Stanhope, …
Wendy Liebman’s Quarterfinals performance on America’s Got Talent 2014
In case you missed it, here was Wendy Liebman‘s performance on the big stage at Radio City Music Hall during her live quarterfinal round of …
Last Comic Standing 8 makes the cruelest cut: Say it ain’t so, Joe!
Say it ain’t so, Joe Machi! Spoiler alert. The one finalist I personally knew already out of the four remaining comedians in season eight of …
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On the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s resignation, Harry Shearer inhabits the late, disgraced president: “Nixon’s The One”
Forty years ago today, President Richard Nixon resigned. Today today, you can watch comedian, actor and satirist Harry Shearer faithfully and comedically re-enacted this tragic …
Steve Hofstetter promotes non-union work for his FOX stand-up comedy series, “Laughs”
Hot off the heels of SAG-AFTRA’s “Do Not Work” notice telling its union member actors not to perform on the new FOX stand-up comedy series, …
Larry David to write and star in his Broadway debut, “Fish in the Dark”
Larry David infamously made his Broadway debut on TV as “Larry David” in The Producers with David Schwimmer, but that was only for the fourth-season …