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Congrats to this year’s winners of the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards, announced over the weekend at the tail end of the monthlong Edinburgh Fringe! 2015 Best Comedy Show award: Sam Simmons: Spaghetti for Breakfast 2015 Best Newcomer award: Sofie Hagen: Bubblewrap 2015 Panel Prize: Karen Koren Simmons, whose cheeky brand …
When there’s smoke, there’s often fire. And when that fire happens in the Piper’s Alley complex in Old Town Chicago that’s home to The Second City, all’s well that ends well with a joke or two on social media. But even as Chicago firefighters arrived on the scene at 1612 …
Comedy Central may have gotten out of the “Fat Jew” business before the masses of protesting comedians got their way…but Josh Ostrovsky’s own countermeasure reveals just how deep the problem of Internet “curation” and “aggregation” goes. To wit. Ahem. Ostrovsky changed the bio of his popular Instagram “thefatjewish” to read …
This just in! Twitter has ramped up its policing of joke thieves, plagiarists and imposters of famous funny folks. A long-running Chris Rock imposter’s account (@ChrisRockOZ): Suspended! A fake Bill Murray? Now just a string of RTs and some private Instagram photos. The @itsWillyFerrell account continues with 1.76 million followers, …
Longtime friend of the site Dan Pasternack has shared many stories behind his collection of signed comedy albums with McSweeney’s online in a series titled, “My Signed Comedy LPs: One Comedy Nerd’s Obsessive Journey.” Today, Pasternack — head of Big Beach TV and former VP of development and production at …
Bill Burr will hit the big-time of Madison Square Garden, while Kathy Griffin, Judd Apatow and friends will play Carnegie Hall this November as headliners for the 2015 New York Comedy Festival, announced late today. The festival site will relaunch on Tuesday with the updated slate for 2015, which will …
Friend of the site Katla McGlynn took an Improv 101 comedy class from Chris Gethard a decade ago at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Last night, McGlynn asked Gethard to watch the first of what will prove to be far too many debates among the Republican presidential candidates to winnow …
George Coe appeared in multiple episodes with the original cast of Saturday Night Live, but only credited as a ‘Not Ready for Prime Time Player” in the very first episode in 1975. Which still counts for a lot. Coe, who also earned an Academy Award nomination for his 1968 short …
GQ’s Fall fashion spread for 2015 features newly incoming host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, South African stand-up comedian Trevor Noah. Just like any comedian, Noah hates most of the jokes he told a few years ago, so all of the backlash surrounding his old Twitter posts was …
The people behind the scenes of David Letterman’s late-night TV reign will be reined in by Regis Philbin later this month to kick off the Lucille Ball Comedy Festival and celebrate the groundbreaking of the National Comedy Center in Jamestown, N.Y. Philbin, the most frequent Letterman guest with 150 appearances …
